Just four months later nearly to the day, after the VMA performance on August 27, 2017, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline reported 5,041 calls.
According to statistics collected by the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, over 4,573 calls were received that day, marking the second-highest daily call volume in the organizations history. Logic’s song was released on April 28, 2017. Mental health, anxiety, suicide, depression, and so much more that I talk about on this album… Logic takes center stage: I just want to take a moment right now to thank you all so much for giving me a platform to talk about something that mainstream media doesn’t want to talk about. Khalid struggles to sing through his outro in the song: “But I don’t wanna cry/ I don’t wanna cry anymore/ I wanna feel alive/I don’t even wanna die anymore” as the camera shows people in the audience visibly moved in their emotions. As more people file in, the camera shows the backs of the shirts which read “You are not alone.” Each individual wears a white t-shirt with 1-80 printed on it in black as Logic repeats the powerful lines from the song’s chorus, “I don’t wanna be alive/ I don’t wanna be alive/ I just wanna die today/ I just wanna die”. Coming up on three minutes in, the camera reveals a perimeter of people around the stage and walking onto the stage- many of whom, it is revealed, are survivors of attempted suicide. Displayed across the stage floor, the floor beneath the orchestra, and the screen behind them is 1-80, repeated line after line. After about a minute and a half of Logic opening the song, he moves down the stage.
A small section of a screen above them is visible: black, displaying a phone number in white. The performance opened with a mostly dark stage as the camera panned across violin players sitting in the darkness.
The 2017 VMA’s Performance That Changed EverythingĪt the MTV award show the VMA’s (Video Music Award) in 2017, Logic performed the hit single with the contributing artists on the track, Khalid and Alessia Cara. When that number is called, the caller is put through to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which LOGIC created the song in association with. The record breaking album gained particular notoriety for its stigma-shattering, triple platinum lead single “1-80”, which raises suicide awareness. Including songs about mental health, Logic has broken shame, stigma, and stereotype like few artists before him as he has broken important records. In 2017, the name Logic became nationwide after the rapper, whose real name is Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, debuted his third album Everybody at number one on the US Billboard 200 list. Frequently, he annotates his interviews with mention of how mainstream media and society at large seeks to shy away from these important, life-changing, potentially life-saving topics of conversation. You’ll often hear the rapper Logic refer to the issues of anxiety, suicide, and mental health as “taboo”.
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