"Just say no to GMOs is the Battle Hymn for our new Organic Republic. Take action against Monsanto and their mad scientists and indentured politicians."
"Mike's Anti-GMO rap is not only great music, it's just the kind of creative way we need to get the message out to people who may not even know they are eating dangerous genetically modified organisms every day. Great job Mike!"
Mike Adams unleashes his creative talents once again by putting together "Just Say NO to GMO". It's a wildly clever and catchy way to educate you about the real dangers and authentic risks that GMO's pose to the public health.
"Mike Adams just released his new song and video "Say No To GMO" which is awesome. Thank God we have people like Mike who are determined to help change the world through health education. Lets all help Mike spread the word and shut down these GMO food producing companies. The future of our world depends on it!!"
"Just Say No to GMOs is not only a great song, it also contains an important message. Mike Adams has combined his talents of honest health reporting and surprising music composition to create a song that is a modern call to action against the dangerous and imminent genetic modification of our entire food supply."
"If the youth of any generation are the catalyst for real change, Mike Adams just put the next generation on the map when it comes to saying no to genetically modified foodstuffs. Mike, along with Jeffry Smith, rap GMO's right out of the food pyramid with a dynamic and targeted new new song 'Just Say No to GMOs.' Can a song groove and rock all at the same time? I can hardly wait to debut it on my next radio broadcast!"
- Robert Scott Bell,
host and creator of the Robert Scott Bell radio show www.RobertScottBell.com
"Mike always impresses me with his dedication to truth, passion for natural health and innovative ways of sharing the messages he cares about - and this new song is no exception! 'Just Say No to GMOs' is a powerful and meaningful call to action, which I am sure will especially appeal to young people and help educate them on food safety. I applaud Mike for sharing his inner rapper with us all...!"
"Just Say No to GMO" was a tremendously fun song to write, produce and publish. In this commentary, I'll share with you some of the behind-the-scenes action on creating the song (and the video).
I'll start with the question people are asking me: Yes, I sang both the lead vocals and background vocals. It was all recorded in layers using an audio editing software package, and no I do NOT use "vocal harmonizers." I do all my harmonies myself, manually, the natural way. I don't use machines to fake it.
I had originally hoped to write this song over the summer of 2010, but I didn't really find the time until September, when the whole song to me in a creative flash over one weekend. Once the words came together, I was able to do the recording in essentially one day (I used my own home studio for recording).
Not using other vocalists makes production really fast, so I was able to do most of the recording on that same weekend. Over the next week or so, I fine-tuned the vocals to balance sound levels. I also had to change some of the words a bit. The line about Monsanto was originally, "Hell no you didn't." But I changed it to "Oh no you didn't" because I wanted parents to play this song for their kids, and I didn't want one single word getting in the way of the song being more widely shared.
The most difficult part about the lyrics was actually making Jeffrey Smith rap out. I didn't have Jeffrey in my studio or anything -- all I had was some recordings from an interview I had done with him at the Health Freedom Expo earlier in 2010. So I worked through those to find some interesting words, then I mixed those together to make Jeffrey rap for us! (He liked it, too, once he heard it!)
The music itself was quite interesting for this song. I licensed the core beat tracks from a professional music company, then remixed it with additional beats.
The music video
The video took some work. I ended up filming the live action parts (me singing in front of the camera) in my office with a camera on a tripod. Nothing complicated, actually.
The rest of the scenes were pieced together from licensed photos and video segments. Jeffrey Smith made some available to us also, so I thank him for letting us use those photos.
We decided to display on screen all the lyrics to the video in order to help those who are hearing impaired, and if we had more time, we would have released a version of the video in both Chinese and Spanish (we may still do that, actually).
For my live action part, I basically just found a black shirt, put it on, made sure my hair wasn't a total mess, and then hit record. No makeup, no wardrobe, nothing. Since I had already written and sang the song, it was pretty easy to sing it again on camera.
I decided to use a black-and-white take to indicate the background vocals. This created some interesting contrast that makes the video a lot more fun to watch than a single take using the same background.
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This song, along with the efforts of many other people, is having a strong an impact to raise awareness about the dangers of GMOs. The public is waking up, and they are not going to tolerate GMOs being secretly put into their foods! At the very least, we need mandatory GMO labeling. Better yet, we should just have GMOs banned!
What's next from the music of Michael Adams
There are more songs coming soon. I've got some other fun, issue-oriented songs on the way, with more complex vocals and harmonies.
They will all be released for free, just like Just Say No to GMOs (and all my songs). I've always given my music away for free in non-DRM formats (not copy protected) in the spirit of sharing and enjoyment, so feel free to share this music with your friends. You can grab the high-quality MP3 file on this page: www.NaturalNews.com/noGMO
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9/10/2010 - Consumers may soon have a new "Frankenfood" to contend with as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will soon decide whether or not to approve genetically-modified (GM) salmon as food. If approved, the GM salmon -- known as AquAdvantage -- will be the first GM animal officially authorized for...
7/30/2010 - At a biotech industry conference in January 1999, a representative from Arthur Anderson, LLP explained how they had helped Monsanto design their strategic plan. First, his team asked Monsanto executives what their ideal future looked like in 15 to 20 years. The executives described a world with 100...
5/4/2010 - I received an urgent alert from Jeffrey Smith today about a dangerous situation taking place right now at the international CODEX conference. The U.S. is attempting to push its agenda to censor all GMO labeling of foods everywhere around the world. This would result in a global GMO cover-up as consumers...
11/20/2008 - Recent polls across the world have consistently shown that, if they had a choice, 90% of people would actively seek to avoid GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in their food. The large multinational corporations of the world have gone through extensive measures to ensure the citizens of most nations...
10/31/2008 - In what appears to be an attempt at softening the public`s attitude toward genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), British scientists have engineered a purple tomato, rich in antioxidants, by splicing certain genes from the snapdragon flower with those of a tomato in order to create a "super tomato"...
5/14/2008 - The problems with Genetically Modified (GM) foods are as many as they are varied. Respected scientists have risked everything to step forward and warn consumers that this new fast-track "solution to world hunger" is bad for their health and the environment, but to little avail. Giant agri-business companies...
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Song Lyrics
Song by Mike Adams, with spoken lines from
Jeffrey Smith
I'm lookin at the food that's in the grocery store
They say it's safe, everybody eat more.
On second thought, I don't really know if it's made with those GMOs
So I'm lookin for the non-GMO label 'fore I bring it home and put it on my table
I wanna know it's verified so I don't
Harm myself with genetically modified
Uh-Oh
They don't want you to know
All the poison they grow
The corporate profits they show from those GMO OH
Those Frankenseeds that they sow
They're gonna hurt us we know
It's time we told 'em to go, say GMO NO!
I don't want eat poison, I don't want gene mutations at my dinner reservations
it's a food abomination what they doin' to this fast food nation
They take artificial gene combinations
inject them in seed variations
so they can grow their Frankenfood imitations
while the side effects cause medical patients
Keep their profits alive while they
spraying all the food with name brand herbicides
and all the while they're spreadin' their lies
Monsanto destroyin' farmers lives
and the FDA keeps it all going
saying it's safe even though they all know it's just
poison stealing away your life, and that's what you eat with genetically modified.
GMO safety huh that's a corporate myth
if you don't believe me listen to Jeffery Smith
He's the man with plan gonna do what he can
To help us all get those GMOs banned
But we need you to lend a hand
take a stand against this food scam
It's a mission for the health condition worldwide
We don't wanna live genetically modified
Don't eat food unless you know what's in it
Don't believe the propaganda cuz the press will spin it
Affects everybody, we all up in it
Stand up to Monsanto, tell 'em oh no you didn't
Reject Frankenfoods in the store
demand honest labels so we can be informed
We have a natural right to know
What we buyin' Just say no to GMO
Before our farms start dyin'
Just say no to GMO
Those corporate crooks are lyin'
Just say no to GMO
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