Hurray for the Riff Raff: “Colossus of Roads”

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Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) shares the video for “Colossus of Roads,” from their 2024 album, The Past Is Still Alive. On the track, written in one tearful sitting during the aftermath of the Club Q shooting, they share a love song for the queer, the vulnerable and the dispossessed. As Segarra calls to idols like poet Eileen Myles and boxcar artist buZ blurr, the song offers a tribute to outsider culture, and the collective fight to survive and thrive despite violence. “I’ve only had this experience a couple of times, where a song falls on me—it’s all there, and I don’t do anything,” Segarra says. “Writing ‘Colossus of Roads’ felt like creating a space where all us outsiders can be safe together. That doesn’t exist, but it exists in our minds, and it exists in this song—this one is sacred to me.” Video directed and edited by Jeff Perlman.

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    Hurray for the Riff Raff: “Colossus of Roads”

    Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) shares the video for “Colossus of Roads,” from their 2024 album, The Past Is Still Alive. On the track, written in one tearful sitting during the aftermath of the Club Q shooting, they share a love song for the queer, the vulnerable and the dispossessed. As Segarra calls to idols like poet Eileen Myles and boxcar artist buZ blurr, the song offers a tribute to outsider culture, and the collective fight to survive and thrive despite violence. “I’ve only had this experience a couple of times, where a song falls on me—it’s all there, and I don’t do anything,” Segarra says. “Writing ‘Colossus of Roads’ felt like creating a space where all us outsiders can be safe together. That doesn’t exist, but it exists in our minds, and it exists in this song—this one is sacred to me.” Video directed and edited by Jeff Perlman.