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'People worry about the current climate'
Updated On: 20 May, 2019 07:08 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
Ahead of their collaboration with Benny Dayal for an initiative, Clean Bandit on the place of politics in their music, and its impact on fans

Jake Patterson, Grace Chatto and Luke Patterson. Pics/Atul Kamble/AFP
Unlike the relationship managers who, in the midst of this interview, urge us to refrain from posing "political questions", Clean Bandit isn't particularly perturbed about addressing the influence of the goings-on in society on their music. "Right now, everyone's terrified about what's happening, especially since Donald Trump became the most powerful man in the world," says Grace Chatto of the musician trio, reiterating her position as one who doesn't shy away from using her celebrity status to discuss pressing matters.
Arguably their most successful track after the Grammy Award-winning Rather Be, the 2017 hit Rockabye, Chatto says, finds itself relevant again in the wake of the recently introduced anti-abortion legislation in Georgia. The song, "about a poor woman, left behind by the system" talks about the lengths she must go to, to raise a child as a single parent. "Women are forced to have babies, even if they can't survive," she says, the abhorrence attached to this fact requiring no further words to make her stance evident.


