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How to describe the music playing in the background here? It’s hold music, isn’t it, like what you hear while you wait 20 minutes to speak with a Capital One representative? Or is it what you hear piped in while you’re waiting for your 40-minute “Shiatsu” massage in one of those mall massage chains? Perhaps it’s the soundtrack of thousands of Vietnamese nail salons across the US. Whatever it is, it is INAPPROPRIATE for a humorless DNC ad about how Republicans are “hypocrites” for voting for a Republican president’s budget but not a Democratic one’s. Such a serious occasion obviously calls for Barber’s Adagio for Strings. [YouTube]
Awwww ya baby. MMMmmm. Come closer. Aww, that’s nice.
Toss that over there. MMmm that’s how it’s done.
Yeeaa.
You SUCK, Thievery Corporation!
Barber’s Adagio for Strings. i.e., the music played at JFK’s funeral. Nice historical ref., Ms. Sarah.
Sounds like Gas Music from Jupiter.
Wait. That is the sinister Indonesian gamelan music of our supposedly Merkin preznit. It is sending out a message to the terrists.
Sounds like something Julie Taymor used in The Lion King.
Simba is behind all of this. Obvs.
Sounds like the music from a seventies crime drama played over a montage of detectives piecing together clues from a horrific crime scene (murdered “massage therapist”?). More appropriate would be something by Bernard Herrman.
It’s from the Brian Eno album “Music for Hypocrites.”
That’s the modern-era music from Civilization III
It would have been much better with Flight of the Valkyries
Just put it to the freaking Carmina Burana, like every other commercial has done over the past five years. Then follow up with an ad to Pachelbel’s Canon and we can put the two most overused pieces of music ever out to pasture.
As in the movie “Platoon,” I also have a nice mental visual of [insert Republitard name here] being chased by pi**ed-off, AK-47-wielding hordes, with no chance of rescue. Mmmm. Thanks, SKS!
Lazy Media: Hahahahahahaha
I’m at work giving a vocabulary quiz (remember those?), so I can’t listen to the music right now. But I’d love to see the DNC take a shot at making music videos. Wouldn’t that be great?
Although, now that I think of it, a DNC music video would probably make this R. Stevie Moore video look high tech.
needs more xylophone
agggghhhh
I just had a root canal flashback
When in doubt…”Yakety Sax”.
loquaciousmusic: how about an RNC music video?
MEMORANDUM
From: Micheal Steele RNC Chair
To: RNC List
Subject: Urban-suburban hip hop public relations effort
Recently I announced that the GOP will be making an off the hook effort to reach the
urban and suburban hip hop community. Our goal is to expand our appeal to a younger
audience. I have heard from many of you on this subject, and I know how strongly you
support this initiative. To further this end, we have decided to make a “hip hop video”
to introduce our thought leaders and principles to this exciting new demographic.
The video will be filmed in Branson, Missouri, and will star Pat Boone and Lee Greenwood.
I will be making every effort to place this video on influential television programs
such as “Soul Train”. I have enclosed a copy of the lyrics, and suggest you familarize
yourself with them, as you will soon be hearing them on the “streets” of your community.
THE NEW GOP
We’re the new GOP
we’re what you need
showing America
we’re ready to
secedesucceedwe got a fresh approach
we’re no longer bitters
now we’re hip
we’re on the twitters
those teabaggin parties
were heaven sent
until we found out
just what it meant
we’ve got our leaders
in the house
back from chasing
Pelosi’s mouse
First, Chairman Steele
detailing our stance
but keeping it narrow
and in his pants
we’re saying no
to sharing the bling
that’s just ain’t
a republican thing
and standing tall
against marrying fruits
cause that don’t play
with religious coots
here’s Speaker Gingrich
yes, Newt is back
woulda made him chairman
if he was black
he’s on your TV
big and bold
with new ideas
three decades old
and now King Rush
our very own Tass
don’t disrepect him
he’ll pop a cyst in his ass
he lays down the law
with a populist rant
here’s his slogan
No We Can’t
Meet Ms. Coulter
first name Ann
it’s safe to say
she’s our man
she’s got the skinny
she’s on the attack
not bothering your head
with any boring facts
another favorite
that’s Joe the plumber
exposing socialism
all last summer
he’s our expert
on tax policy
and stuff he hasn’t read
like EFC
Joe knows it all
no matter how you boil it
and after he speaks
he’ll fix your toilet
next, Missy Bachmann
raising the islam alarm
and workin’ the ho’s
on her baby farm
she keeps it real
she’s one of our heroes
protecting the nation
from using Ameros
but here’s the one
you wanna be nailin’
the smokin’ hot GILF
named Sarah Palin
she’s callin’ out pals
of the terrorist Ayers
and keeping bridges
from going nowheres
with political charisma
she’s truely blessed
making Imelda Marcos
feel underdressed
her religious convictions
ain’t no deception
check her girl’s
immaculate conception
that’s Big Bill Bennett
our values pimp
spreading the message
just like a blimp
David Vitter’s
out making new friends
how’s he do it?
just Depends
and our new superstar
Governor Bobby Jindal
hippin’ us all
to the volcano swindle
he’s young and brown
that’s sure to reach ya
and speaking out
like a first grade teacher
we’re the new GOP
gonna make you smile
and tap your feet
Larry Craig style
so, yo, blacks and browns
hop in our boat
but don’t get too excited
ya still can’t vote
jagorev: I was thinking something more along these lines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyhhFzE5O5U
That’s Fable II music, all the way.
Lazy Media: …it is, isn’t it?!
they should have used the music from law and order
and that little sound when they switch scenes
nuh uh. American Beauty soundtrack.
…oh boy, the video game fan-boys are out in force today! Then again maybe I shouldn’t be talking considering the fact that I have a WII, PS3 and XBox.
Meh. Needs more gravitas, a la Don La Fontaine.
…I think they should use the “Ewok” music!
Lazy Media: Oh christ, that’s why it sounds so familiar. That music haunted my dreams, mocking my global empire.
Anyway, a couple of my friends actually work in a Vietnamese nail salon (sisters, actually), I’ll ask them if they’ve heard that tune a trillion times.
From the party of NO
To the party of hypocrites
Does the DNC have any proofreaders? Does the DNC pick up the phone and say, “Hi, party of hypocrites here”?
AngryBlakGuy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26MpAh1os7I
Now the video game nerds are out.
AngryBlakGuy: I’ll fess up, Wonkette is my home away from Destructoid.com.
And what the hell, just start setting all the DNC stuff to John Williams music.
Red Zeppelin: Small (cultural) world. The local symphony played “Adagio for Strings” as part of its last season concert Saturday night. According to the program notes, Arturo Toscanini liked it so much he decided to conduct its premier performance. My nine year old, however, declared it “boring and sad.”
She liked the Britten’s “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” finale much better.
We will punish you by playing classical music. Good on ya.
Bow chicka wow wow ….
“I’m to deliver your pizza, ma’am …. ”
Bow chicka wow wow…
jagorev: Or perhaps Joe Tex’s “I Gotcha.” Also.
This seems to be working better than the recent “caption” contest.
Alternately: West Coast Shit. California love included.
Awesome! Does this mean that my vinyl collection of Andreas Vollenweider’s greatest hits is worth something now?
Lascauxcaveman: I love everything by Barber, but especially Knoxville, Summer of 1915.
http://www.317x.com/albums/b/harrybreuer2/card.html
I think the GOP is best captured by the Benny Hill chase sequence music.
GOP theme music: Mars, the Bringer of War, but only as performed by the nerdy henchmen from the Venture Brothers. Mom, call the DOG!
It’s music from the SAVE THE RAINFOREST commercials.
All I can see is a camera panning over seas of green and closeups of taipirs and macaws.
…followed by a desperate plea from Greenpeace to pressure foreign governments to ban logging.
Mannheim Steamroller
“EVERY HOUR, OVER 1,000 ACRES OF RAINFOREST ARE BURNED!”
Lazy Media: I thought it sounded like the Civ IV Ancient Age music. I’ll have to go dust off my Civ IV disk and find out… but yeah, what is it with these EPIC FAIL Dem ads? The Limpballs one was bad enough, but now this one is worse.
As a footnote, the definition of ‘Shiatsu’ is when one sneezes whilst upon the john.
TGY: Thanks TGY, I was wondering why how small yappy dogs managed the happy ending…
Scarab: +1
americanscandoanything: +1 for effort. Give yourself the rest of the day off.
I like it. It’s like the music they play when they send the Top Chefs into Malaysia or some shit.
gjdodger: When in doubt…”Yakety Sax”.
Scarab: I think the GOP is best captured by the Benny Hill chase sequence music.
Great minds…
I think they were going for The Terminator and ended up with Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom.
I’m going to set this music as my new ringtone.
By using music like that, Republicans have the right to make fun of latte-sippers. Then again, they seem to have an increasing desire to play heavy metal-the devil’s music-like AC/DC
Guppy06: Big fat ball of win.
1 part Cliff Martinez, 3 parts Ed Shearmur, garnish with a big ‘ol kalimba…oy vey!
loquaciousmusic: run DNC?