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local musicians, feel free to swoon.
When the members of the band Random Rain sit down to write a song, they don't try to make it environmentally friendly. It just happens.
For instance, "Oh Fish" started off as a joke about band member Rebecca Lo's beta fish dying and turned into a song about the human race. "It's about how we as humans feel: we can just take control of things and make them our pets," Lo says.
Random Rain, made up of Lo, Coffeyville senior, Margaret Tran, Derby senior, and Lia Williams, Overland Park junior, started the band in 2008 and have recorded songs about social awareness and played shows for events such as Earth Day and a benefit for the Salvation Army.
The band highlights global warming issues in their self-titled song "Random Rain." "It's about how weather in some parts of the world affect weather in other parts of the world. Our activities are creating really extreme weather conditions." Tran says.
When the band plays shows around town, a crowd favorite is "Commercialism." A rap song inspired by a lecture in one of Tran's sociology classes, this song reflects the American lifestyle of consumerism.
"It's wasteful in terms of the environment-socially, and economically. It ends up hurting
people in the process who make what we buy." Tran says.
Despite their songs and their name, Tran insists Random Rain is not a "green band." "Not all of our songs are about the environment, but we have some songs that we wanted to address social issues," Tran says.
// MARY HENDERSON
Contributed photo
Girls gone green (from left) Rebecca Lo. Co-freshier, senior Mariane Grant, Derby senior, and Lia Williams, Overland Park junior make up the eco-friendly girl group
random people. random answers.
out & about //
If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?
Philip Khoury
Dallas freshman
"An eagle or hawk because I could fly."
Kelsey Pence
Overland Park sophomore
"Wolves are cool. They hang out in packs all day."
Brenden Burgee
Los Angeles freshman
"I would be a whale because then no one would mess with me."
Stephanie Taylor
Wichita sophomore
"I would be an elephant because they rule and they're big."
Olathe sophomore
Ashley Martin
"Id be a panda bear because they are lazy."
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