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Beth Ditto is the vocalist of American band The Gossip. Ditto was selected by NME as the coolest person in rock in the NME's annual Cool List in 2006. She is from Arkansas

She is an outspoken advocate of gay rights. The song ‘Standing in the Way of Control’ was written by Ditto as a response to her government’s decision to deny gays the right to marriage in the US. “Nobody in the States was that surprised or shocked by what Bush did, but it made everyone I know feel helpless and cheated,” Beth says. “I wrote the chorus to try and encourage people not to give up. It’s a scary time for civil rights, but I really believe the only way to survive is to stick together and keep fighting.”

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• BBC report of NME cool list

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