I forgot to post this in the fall
After Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma hit the Southeastern U.S., I was primed for a huge tribute concert whose proceeds would go to the Bayou and South Florida. Like another "Live 8" or "FarmAid"--or even a "Bonaroo" or "Boombamela."
But it never happened; instead, there was just a smattering of relatively small shows.
More realistically, though, I expected a song to come out that would reflect our collective grief at the tragedy, or at least a song overlaid with reports of the hurricane.
Remember the Oklahoma City bombing back in 1995? Remember how Live's song "Lightning Crashes" was No. 1 at the time? And remember how soundbytes relating to the bombing were inserted into the song?
It was like, "Lightning crashes / an old mother dies ... 'There's been a bombing here at the Federal Building' .... Her intentions fall to the floor. . . . 'We don't know how many are still inside' " and so on.
The same thing happened after Sept. 11. Live profitted off the tragedy, as their song "Overcome" simarly overlaid with newscasters' comments.
But after Katrina, I just heard the song "Golddigger" a little more. That's it.
We used to be so opportunistic. . . . What happened?
But it never happened; instead, there was just a smattering of relatively small shows.
More realistically, though, I expected a song to come out that would reflect our collective grief at the tragedy, or at least a song overlaid with reports of the hurricane.
Remember the Oklahoma City bombing back in 1995? Remember how Live's song "Lightning Crashes" was No. 1 at the time? And remember how soundbytes relating to the bombing were inserted into the song?
It was like, "Lightning crashes / an old mother dies ... 'There's been a bombing here at the Federal Building' .... Her intentions fall to the floor. . . . 'We don't know how many are still inside' " and so on.
The same thing happened after Sept. 11. Live profitted off the tragedy, as their song "Overcome" simarly overlaid with newscasters' comments.
But after Katrina, I just heard the song "Golddigger" a little more. That's it.
We used to be so opportunistic. . . . What happened?
posted by Gabe Roth | Friday, January 20, 2006
1 Comments:
Good point.
Speaking of these songs with overlaid news reports and other sound bytes... The worst offender has to be Kenny G, with his Auld Lyng Sang "Millenium Mix" for the year Y2K. He took a song that's not his, and overlaid it with soundbytes from events that mostly took place before his lifetime. Most people who found the song touching probably had no idea what 99% of the soundbytes were refering to.
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