Song of the Day: Pink "Dear Mr. President"
One of my goals in life is to spend a lot of time on YouTube and Google Video when I get some free time. (Right, I know, the class schedule these days is rough.) In any event, I like seeing great stuff when I'm linked to it, and this Pink video is a great example. Now, sure, I've made fun of Pink before: she's only the most badass product of the Philly Main Line if you discount my mom, and a lot of her songs are, you know, terrible. (There are some good ones too; I confess to putting "Don't Let Me Get Me" on the mix CD to which I drove around Raleigh.) This one, the live version of a tune called "Dear Mr. President," is pretty solid. I normally hesitate to support politically oriented songs, since most have so little to offer in terms of honesty, insight, or, you know, a halfway decent melody, but this is a keeper. Not only does our friend Pink focus a lot more on character than policy, making the tune a lot more personal. Plus the level of political awareness rises way above the Lenny Kraviitzes of the world: note the theme at the end of "let me tell you about hard work." Now, you and I both know that's a reference to our fearless leader's remark during the first debate that cleaning up Iraq is "hard work," but I'm surprised Pink does. In any event, she's got some thoughts on what constitutes hard work, and she brings it with a halfway decent melody. Good performance.
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Is being "badass" good or not-so-good? Probably good, you wouldn't insult me less than a week from mother's day, right? I didn't know Pink was from the Main Line. For those who don't know, the Main Line is a *famous* string of suburbs connected by local train service, painfully well-off and conservative, stretching north-west out of Philly where Awesome Terry's mother was lucky to grow up. It is an area of the country full of people who know "hard work". Of course there are thousands there who weren't born on third base, too.
Posted by: Mommy | May 9, 2006 8:12 AM