Santigold Speaks Out About The Environment Urging People To Make A Difference

Santi White, better known as Santigold, has explained the stories behind her latest record Master Of My Make Believe, urging people to take responsibility for the state of things around them.

“Ultimately it falls on us. We're the ones who are going to have to live in it, and we're the ones that are to blame for the current state of it. You know, I sing, 'While we sleep in America,' but that's because I'm in America – really it's everywhere. Right before or around the time I wrote it there were nuclear explosions and oil spills, all the uprisings – there's a lot of things pointing out that things are a little bit out of whack. So the song's about not being able to sit back and pretend that you don't have anything to do with that.

“A lot of the record is about being in control of your reality, and being responsible and involved with your whole environment – whether that's your internal environment or your external environment…  taking responsibility for the state of things around us in the world. I mean clearly, it's kind of a wreck in many ways.”

White continues to explain that people simple don't seem to care about these issues that threaten the world, however is quite optimistic.

 “It's a big problem and it happens for different reasons,” she says. “While part of it may be apathy, another part of it is that people feel disempowered and they feel like nothing they say or do might make any difference. This feeling of frustration is leading to things like the Occupy Movement. But it's because of that frustration that people aren't being heard.

“People didn't feel like they were able to make a difference, but they have to sit there and watch things fall apart and go the wrong way. I don't believe that should be the case. It might be more difficult than it has been in the past, but we still can have our say and the more we choose to use our voices, the more we can make a difference.”