Music Riles Savage Beast
… in the heart of Heart, which doesn’t heart Palin. ’70s rock hags issue issue a cease-and-desist on the GOP’s use of “Barricuda.” via Boston Herald.
“The Republican campaign did not ask for permission to use the song, nor would they have been granted that permission,” a Heart rep told TMZ.com. “We have asked the Republican campaign publicly not to use our music. We hope our wishes will be honored.‘
Too bad, most of the music at that RNC was aggressively Welkian. I bet Sir Elton would have no objection to the Dems using his tunes, though. Here’s one that would work.
Reynolds offers up a debate on whether ”Barricuda” was a good choice in the first place:
But despite the obvious tie-in with Sarah Palin’s basketball nickname of “Sarah Barracuda,” it’s a bad campaign song anyway since, if you listen to the lyrics, it’s about a manipulative phony who’ll say whatever people want to hear: “Smiles like the sun, kisses for everyone, and tales, it never fails . . . . And if the real thing don’t do the trick, you better make up something quick.” At least, it’s a bad campaign song if it’s supposed to be about Sarah Palin.
And congrats to Howard Mortman for remembering that Crazy on You is the best Cold-War inspired oral-sex song ever.
UPDATE: Reader Gerry Daly says I’m wrong: “The song was in response to ugly, unfounded sexual rumors being spread about the Wilson sisters. In that regard, it is extremely fitting for Palin. Honestly, can you think of a more fitting rejoinder to her foes in politics and the media than ‘And if the real thing don’t do the trick, you better make up something quick’?” Good point.
Anyway, here’s E! with more from Heart’s Nancy Wilson. Astonishingly, this aging lefty is unable to express her Heartfelt political sentiments without an eff word. Shocking, I know. That almost never happens:
“I think it’s completely unfair to be so misrepresented,” Nancy Wilson told the magazine Thursday night. “I feel completely f–ked over.”
“Sarah Palin’s views and values in NO WAY represent us as American women. We ask that our song ‘Barracuda’ no longer be used to promote her image…[It] was written in the late ’70s as a scathing rant against the soulless, corporate nature of the music business, particularly for women…There’s irony in Republican strategists’ choice to make use of it there.”
Yeah, no shortage of irony … let’s see, who’s been leading the pack in the soulless abuse and use of women lately … Sarah Palin Sexism Watch does yeowoman’s work on that front.
Howie Carr: Why do they hate her, let us count the ways.
Nick Cohen at the Guardian, with some clarity from across the pond, via RCP which is all Palin all the time with a great Sunday roundup.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:00 am on Sunday, September 7, 2008
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September 7th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
In an age when politics is choreographed, voters watch out for the moments when the public-relations facade breaks down and venom pours through the cracks. Their judgment is rarely favourable when it does. Barack Obama knows it. All last week, he was warning American liberals to stay away from the Palin family. He understands better than his supporters that it is not a politician’s enemies who lose elections, but his friends.
No truer words. So keep going, Obamedia!