LA Weekly: Discovering The Candidates Through Their Playlists
William Howard Taft. Our 27th President. Our 10th Chief Justice. A Possible Walrus. And the man behind arguably the greatest campaign theme song in history: “Get On A Raft With Taft.” Some say that you can tell a lot about a candidate based on their choice of campaign song, and maybe in some respects that’s true. But even if it isn’t, it was certainly fun to mock the theme songs of this year’s presidential candidates. I mean Celine Dion? Jesus Jones? And that was just Hillary Clinton alone (I take it Fleetwood Mac was Bill’s pick?) Anyhow, find out who’s rolling with Taft and who’s bound for the level of ignominy forever allotted to Herbert “If He’s Good Enough For Lindy” Hoover.
LA Weekly: Discovering the Candidates Through Their Playlists
Download:
MP3: Curtis Mayfield-”Move On Up”
MP3: The Clash-”Rudie Can’t Fail” (Though I guess he did)
Stumble It!
January 31st, 2008 at 9:13 am
January 31st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
clearly, replacing “Move On Up” with it’s Kanye/Just Bleezified form “Touch the Sky” would help Obama better connect with the youth
January 31st, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Personally, if I were him I’d go with “2000 Blacks Got to Be Free” but he’d never do it lest he frighten whitey. As for “Touch the Sky,” y’know that’d be “hip-hop” and Barack’s “not of that generation,” even though he was 15 when rapper’s delight came out and you know damn well he got down with that during his Oxy days.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
It’ll be very interesting when the next generation of black politicians come along who unequivocally grew up as hip hop fans slowly back away from the culture as if it were infected by the bubonic plague and proceed to throw their crowning cultural achievement under the bus and pretend they were indie rock fans growing up.
February 1st, 2008 at 10:36 am
Hillary and McCain are in trouble if their music choices are any indication. Here’s the Songfacts breakdown:
http://www.songfacts.com/writing/2008/01/rating-campaign-music.html