the vote for Hillary Clinton’s theme song.
It probably really is not worth mentioning Hillary Clinton’s search for her campaign theme song, a process whereby you YOU YOU can go to her website and vote VOTE VOTE from a list of relatively diverse relatively inoffensive songs before whittling it down to that U2 “Beautiful Day” song.
She started with a list of ten, cast out five of those once the voting was in, and then promptly added five write-in songs. Again, it is not worth mentioning what those songs are — though “Everything She Ever Does is Magic” is clearly unusable, but there is something worth mentioning about the predictable negative song titles the masses are “writing in”.
I specifically dwell on the Thompson Twins song “Lies Lies Lies”, because it is a talk radio staple, and an increasingly tedious one at that. Actually I want to say something about talk radio and music: the political parody songs? Few of them are particularly amusing. Most of them are wretched. Thom Hartmann is particularly bad at airing these things, always managing to double the impact of them by referring to the lyrics out of break. While they are not inconceivably terrible, I would prefer a moratorium because they tend to be terrible.
Other than that, Hillary Clinton is getting treated to some songs that end up dwelling into the realm of her tricky-to-navigate gender politics: “Witchy Woman”. Elton John’s “The Bitch is Back.” Also notable is the shifting of the name of the Beatles tune to “Tax Woman”.
And then there’s Beck’s “Loser”.
Actually, I recommend that Hillary Clinton go with with something by Bach. Just to be completely different. Nobody would see it coming. Nobody would be able to make a derogatory comment on that decision. I’ll throw it to one of the other candidates — maybe one with nothing to lose — um… John Cox?