…people sit 2hrs+ for artists, at concerts so I don’t see the problem. Be there 2:15pm. In the meantime a proposal for Tupac’s “Changes” copyrights owners. Apparently AI couldn’t formulate it, but it gave me something to work with. It is about giving access to me before it all…

STILL NO CHANGES

Proposed lyrical adaptation of Tupac Shakur’s “Changes”

Concept

“Still No Changes” is intended as a respectful, direct contemporary adaptation of Tupac Shakur’s “Changes,” preserving the spirit, recognisable musical identity and protest-song function of the original while updating its central question for the present day.

The premise is simple:

Thirty-four years later, what actually changed?

The adaptation acknowledges that history did move in significant ways. Most notably, the United States elected a Black president, something that would once have seemed extraordinary within the context of the original song.

But the adaptation then asks whether symbolic breakthroughs translated into structural change for the people Tupac was speaking about.

The recurring idea is:

Still no changes.

Not because literally nothing changed, but because many of the underlying conditions being confronted remain unresolved.

The new version would explore:

• the passage of 34 years;
• the historic election of a Black president;
• the distinction between representation and structural transformation;
• continuing inequality, poverty, racial division and political disillusionment;
• the tendency to celebrate individual breakthroughs while leaving deeper systems intact;
• the question of what genuine change should actually look like.

The adaptation would retain the conversational, confrontational and reflective character associated with the original rather than turning it into a completely different song.

Contemporary culmination

The ending would introduce another historical question:

What is still missing?

The proposed answer is the emergence of a Black woman president worthy of the responsibility and station, presented not merely as another symbolic milestone but as part of a wider question about who gets to occupy positions of the highest political authority and what genuine transformation would mean.

The point is not to endorse a particular contemporary politician.

It is to extend the historical conversation begun by the original:

Thirty-four years later, we have seen a Black president.
So what comes next?
And after all that history, why are so many of the same questions still here?

Intended title

STILL NO CHANGES

Intended relationship to the original

The proposal is specifically intended as a licensed derivative/adaptation of “Changes.”

Permission would therefore be sought from all relevant rights holders before recording, releasing, synchronising, distributing or commercially exploiting the work.

The purpose of this treatment is to communicate the intended artistic direction while formally requesting the appropriate rights rather than presenting an unauthorised adaptation as a finished commercial work.