... And Bad Politics At That
Back in the days of iCompositions, it seemed worth writing songs to communicate concepts about say politics or sex or taxation or ethics in a the lyrics - mainly because I was in the most part talking to my fellow musicians. The music was self-evident, the lyrics were not. And then of course there is a crowd that gets into a song from the lyrics first, even when they themselves are musicians.
Now that I'm releasing some of this older material, it does stick out to me as kind of out of place to be sending out a song that made more sense in another context (iCompositions) than where it will be found (Spotify). Which goes to show that meaning is indeed context driven and socially determined. On a more pedestrian level, songs like this probably don't mean a whole bunch outside of the iCompositions context.
This number was written sometime in 2014, so it predates the Trump Presidency, but it does take in the early part of his campaign to win over the Republican primaries. Australia already had the outcome-of-stupid whereby Tony Abbott was elected Prime Minister, so you got the ever-looming picture that Trump was going to be a helluva trip to survive. Maybe or politics has grown a bit more sane since those heady days when Putin was paying his cyber army to sow discord in the west through Social Media. (Yes, Putin really is a cunt - let us never forget that). The upside of all that is that some people grew out of their stupidity, eventually. It's a shame it took the attempted coup to sober tip the Republican base.
Even all that seems a long time ago now.
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