"Everybody Matters" Digital Download & Single Artwork-- the title track from the newest album

Written over 3 years ago "Everybody Matters" is an energetic, old-school gospel/blues tune, with congregational clapping as the main rhythmic pulse throughout the song.The lyrics are a long list of contrasts between "first world" ideas of what"everybody matters" looks like: life support, cheap consumer goods made elsewhere, and rich people making headlines-- versus what the rest of the world experiences : starvation, slave labor, little to no media attention.  The observation AV makes is if "everybody matters" certainly a greedy and classist society seems to say, well: "some a little more" (or a lot more). By the end of the song the lyrics admit that even those in "first world" countries feel the anxiety of this "need to get ahead, you can feel it to your core"-- and leaves the listener wondering, alongside AV herself, if it is really possible to truly value human rights AND believe in the unquestioned, unchecked, unlimited greed of insatiable materialism.