Just before the insurection, they were playing "Gloria" by Laura Branigan

[PurgedVoter]

Watch this and read the lyrics while thinking about this being played just before it all went down. I suspect it was played for Trump's benefit/ridicule, but it might have been a warning. It is doubly ironic since Kimberly danced to it. Kimberly sad, creepy thing, was perhaps an even more precise fit than Trump.

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[highplainsdem]

1. They play it before a lot of Trump rallies, and in this case they played "Gloria" and a few other

Trump favorites TWICE in the hour-long hiatus between the speeches by Junior and Giuliani, and Trump's speech.

They played "Gloria" for the second time right before Trump was introduced, when they played "Proud to Be An American."

[bedazzled]

2. struck me that it is kind of "sunset boulevard"

of course neither sensitivity nor intelligence is involved with these people

[Act_of_Reparation]

3. I'm not into kink shaming, but...

...I struggle to imagine why anyone would willingly subject themselves to that song.

[LeftInTX]

4. It is a strange song to play at a rally, but "Voices in your head" seems fitting

I think Jr and Kimberly just like the song.
I personally like the song, but I can't picture playing it at a rally for deluded loser.
"Voices in your head".....

[Act_of_Reparation]

11. I mean, so many of Trump's supporters have their heads stuck in the 1980's.

I guess it makes sense, in a pathetic "High School was the best years of my life" kind of way.

[The Wielding Truth]

5. Is it a notable brainwashing song? Is it mean to confuse and stop the crowd from comprehending there

actions?

It doesn't really mean anything to me.

[Harker]

6. I recall the Stones objected to his using their music.

"Sympathy for the Devil" would have been a nice touch.

[Iggo]

7. I think they've got your number. I think they've got the alias that you've been living under.

‘Bout sums it up.

[John1956PA]

8. She was a nice lady. Her estate is appalled by the right-wingers' use of the song.

The song "Gloria" was originally recorded by a European singer in 1979 and was covered many times by other European artists over the following two years. Laura Branigan had a hit with in 1982. She enjoyed success for ten years until she put her career on hiatus to care for her terminally ill husband. After her husband passed away, she gradually resumed her career. She passed away unexpectedly of a brain aneurysm in 2004. In the 2018-2019 NHL season, the Saint Louis Blues hockey team turned their season around (coincidentally or not) when the team informally adopted Laura Branigan's cover of "Gloria" as its anthem. That season, the team won its first-ever Stanley Cup.

[KT2000]

10. Yes, she was her own person too

Popular music has its cliques and she didn't fit into them. She had a powerful voice and hit the notes - long before auto-tune. I probably still have a couple of her records but no turntable now.

[Sugarcoated]

9. Not even the cool GLORIA

They even fail on this