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Jan
30
Obama continues to rock the airwaves
Posted by: Alison Fensterstock in Barack Obama, Music & Nightlife

Correct me if I’m wrong, but not a lot of American presidents have wound up immortalized in song, and none as extensively as our latest POTUS. Just before the election, I did a by-no-means-complete roundup of musical paeans to Barack Obama. Then, today, I heard this for the first time: a remix of Jim Jones and Ron Browz #1 Billboard hip-hop and R&B hit “Pop Champagne” with the opening verse rewritten as a tribute to the new President - certainly the most-mentioned political figure in hip-hop outside of Benjamin Franklin. It’s a poppy club-rap track, with lots of AutoTune and a spare conga-esque beat that bubbles up fatly in a way that evokes the titular champagne, and the melody is so addictively singsongy that I guarantee if you listen, you will be hearing this in your head for hours, if not days:

We voted for a change and now we made it
No disrespect to McCain and Palin
We rocked the vote and now we celebratin’
President Barack and VP Biden
Oh-oh, pop champagne
Oh-on, for Barack campaign

Somebody please make it stop?
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Comments:
Resista on January 30th, 2009 at 8:51 pm #

Oh really? Well maybe not in positive songs but in the negative song category pic any republican president and you will find hundreds of little diddys like they are Hitler incarnate weather they deserve it or not. Don’t get all caught up in your thoughts just because you are in the media.

You guys have a habit of generating “Man Made Weather” as if you exist in your own atmosphere.

Resista on January 30th, 2009 at 8:52 pm #

Sorry for all the misspellings. I forgot the motto ! SCIMF So be it!

Alison Fensterstock on January 30th, 2009 at 9:03 pm #

Resista, you’re half right: below, our friends at Music for Maniacs remind us that many, many amateur song-poems were composed about Richard Nixon during the heyday of that odd service. (Short explanation: you’d send in a poem you wrote, they’d whip up a tune and record it and send you back a record or tape, which are now found often at yard sales and prized by weird collectors.) Apparently, though, most of those were positive. Read on:

http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2006/08/great-richard-nixon.html

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