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People called for change after Pulse. Five years later, it has yet to come.

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“Waiting for a change to set us free / Waiting for the day when you can be you and I can be me”Those were the opening lyrics to the chorus of “Change” by Christina Aguilera.

She had recorded the song in 2015, but when she learned that a mass shooting had taken place in Orlando on June 12, 2016, Aguilera and her team immediately remastered the song and released it as a charity single.

In the song, she sings that “one day we won’t have to sing this chorus.” Five years later, today is not that day.Related: Candidate Biden said he’d overturn the Pentagon ban on Pride flags.

Will President Biden do it?“Point blank it was a hate crime,” said Fancy Hagood, the out songwriter of the song alongside Aguilera and Florian Reutter.

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