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#509 - Kung Fu Bicycles (Patreon)

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2024-03-23 20:58:38
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For decades, a cottage industry flourished in the subterranean depths of the American music industry: send a company your poem, and for a fee, they'll turn it into a song. Maybe the song will even be your entryway into the industry and the Billboard charts! But most assuredly it will not be. Was this industry exploitative? Did it produce art? What even is "art" anyway? We tackle all these questions and more as we discuss the documentary OFF THE CHARTS: THE SONG-POEM STORY (2003).

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Chris Sherman

Thanks for this one, really enjoyed it, and looking forward to watching the doc! I think part of what the Song-poem phenomenon demonstrates is that there's always a thin line between pop music and folk forms, because pop music is pretty inseparable from folk art in the first place.

Cameron F

I'm a little disappointed you didn't bring up my favorite example(s) of the song poem format: those written and later lip-synched by 2020 darling and D-tier presidential candidate, Joe Exotic. He notoriously maintained that he actually performed the vocals on such country bangers as: * Bring It On: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkjrpjoW8kA * I Saw a Tiger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zevcsjXwQmo * Here Kitty Kitty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCgz9915wHw