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| From | Ken Kase <kenkase@nighttimes.com> |
| Subject | Re: Bushpod |
| Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:43:21 -0500 |
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Remember that in his early years, George Jones recorded such memorable
ditties as "Relief is Just a Swallow Away" and, in step with W.'s foreign
policy, "I'm Gonna Burn Your Playhouse Down".
--Ken
On 4/26/05 1:25 PM, "Dave Seaman" <seamand@upmc.edu> wrote:
>
> On GW's iPod: "No black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one
> woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles."
>
> Yet another thing about the man for me to dislike.
>
> The compleat article:
>
>
> Bush bares soul with 'iPod One'
> By CNN's Peter Wilkinson
>
> Tuesday, April 12, 2005
>
> (CNN) -- The music tastes of U.S. President George W. Bush have come under
> scrutiny after an aide revealed the playlist of his new iPod player.
>
> The portable digital device, given to Bush by his daughters Jenna and
> Barbara last July, contains much country music, but also songs by Joni
> Mitchell, Van Morrison and the Knack.
>
> The MP3 player, which can store up to 10,000 songs, only contains about 250,
> according to the New York Times, which first reported the story.
>
> "iPod One," as the player has been dubbed, is used by Bush while he pedals
> around his Texas ranch on a mountain bike, presidential media adviser Mark
> McKinnon told the newspaper.
>
> The task of downloading the music falls to the 58-year-old president's
> personal aide, Blake Gottesman, who buys individual songs and albums from
> the iTunes music store.
>
> Not every track is "on-message." The playlist -- regarded by many as a
> mirror to the soul -- includes musicians who campaigned against Bush, such
> as John Fogerty. Also on the iPod is the 1979 song "My Sharona" by the
> Knack, about a man pursuing a much younger woman.
>
> One of that song's lyrics, "Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the
> touch of the younger kind," prompted Spin magazine editor Dave Itzkoff to
> comment: "This wouldn't be consistent with Bush's image as protector of
> conservative values."
>
> Bush, who quit drinking after his 40th birthday, also listens to recovering
> alcoholic George Jones, a country singer who sings about heartbreak and
> drinking. Joe Levy, deputy editor of Rolling Stone magazine, said this
> indicated "a little bit of taste for hard core and honky-tonk."
>
> McKinnon advised though against too much analysis of the playlist. "The fact
> is that any president who would limit themselves to pro-establishment
> musicians would have a pretty slim collection.
>
> "No one should psychoanalyze the song selection. It's music to get over the
> next hill," he told the New York Times.
>
> The playlist does reveal a rather narrow range of babyboomer tunes. Writing
> in the London Times, Caitlin Moran noted: "No black artists, no gay artists,
> no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no
> Beatles."
>
> Levy agreed, telling the New York Times: "What we're talking about is a lot
> of great artists from the '60s and '70s and more modern artists who sound
> like great artists from the '60s and '70s.
>
> "This is basically boomer rock 'n' roll and more recent music out of
> Nashville made for boomers. It's safe, it's reliable, it's loving. What I
> mean to say is, it's feel-good music. The Sex Pistols it's not."
>
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