{"id":592,"date":"2005-07-31T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T19:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=592"},"modified":"2005-07-31T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2005-07-31T19:52:08","slug":"payola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/07\/31\/payola\/","title":{"rendered":"Payola"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>
\nI could never sleep my way to the top
\n‘Cause my alarm clock always wakes me right up
\nAnd since my options had been whittled away
\nI struck a bargain with my radio DJ
\nI said I’d like this song to be number one
\nHe said “I’d really really like to help you my son”
\nAnd then I knew that I would have him to thank
\nBecause he asked me how much I had in the bank<\/p>\n

He said to think long term investment and
\nThat all the others had forgiven themselves
\nHe said the net reward would justify
\nThe colossal mess they’d made of their lives<\/p>\n

He said the record wouldn’t have to be hot
\nAnd no one ever seemed to care if it’s not
\nIt would depend on something else that I’ve got
\nAnd that the other ones who’d given it a shot
\nHad seen a modest sum grow geometrically
\nAnd then they had forgiven themselves
\nBecause the net reward had justified
\nThe colossal mess they’d made of their lives.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Please be advised that in this week’s Jennifer Lopez Top 40 Spin Increase of 236 we bought 63 spins at a cost of $3,600.”<\/p>\n

“Please be advised that in this week’s Good Charlotte Top 40 Spin Increase of 61 we bought approximately 250 spins at a cost of $17K \u2026”<\/p>\n

Ironically, it didn’t help, as the memo notes that the company actually lost spins \u2014 or plays of the record \u2014 even though they laid out money for them.<\/i><\/p>\n

Well, I told you about the world (its address)
\nI wonder when they’re gonna clean up the mess
\nYou know the rabid child is still tuning in
\nChess piece face’s patience must be wearing thin
\nBecause they haven’t played this song on the air
\nNot that anyone but me even cared
\nAnd the Disk Jockey has moved out of town
\nThe district courthouse says he’s nowhere to be found
\n………………..<\/p>\n

This takes us back to … the rise of Limp Bizkit<\/a>, and the Portland connection to said rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I could never sleep my way to the top ‘Cause my alarm clock always wakes me right up And since my options had been whittled away I struck a bargain with my radio DJ I said I’d like this song to be number one He said “I’d really really like to help you my son” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}