Don’t Stop Believin’

Anti-climaxes are all the rage these days :




Ohhh…I get it. Hillary Clinton was just killed by Johnny Sack. Seems like an odd way to end the campaign, but whatever.

As far as the choice of campaign song, picking “You and I” by Celine Dion is weak. Putting aside the fact that Celine Dion totally sucks (which is hard to do, I admit), does it strike anyone as strange that the campaign would choose a song by a French Canadian singer? It may be a petty complaint, but no more so than John Edwards’ haircuts.

On top of that, the lyrics of “You and I” are ridiculous :

High above the mountains, far across the sea
I can hear your voice calling out to me
Brighter than the sun and darker than the night
I can see your love shining like a light
And on and on this earth spins like a carousel
If I could travel across the world
The secrets I would tell

What the hell does that have to do with anything? Compare those lyrics to her husband’s much better campaign song, “Don’t Stop” :

If you wake up and dont want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
Youll see things in a different way.

Dont stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Dont stop, it’ll soon be here,
Itll be, better than before,
Yesterdays gone, yesterdays gone.

Yeah, it’s cheesy baby boomer bait, but it does a good job summing up the theme of the campaign. That is, unless the Clinton ‘08 campaign theme is that “this earth spins like a carousel”.


posted by greg on June 19, 2007 @ 1:30 pm

4 comments »

  1. Not to mention that if you happen to be clear about the correct uses of “I” and “me,” hearing this song–and, once you’ve heard it, just that phrase from it–is like hearing nails on chalkboard. Maybe they chose it for the same reason a guy who went to Yale keeps on saying “nucular”–putting those elites in their place.

    Comment by Pun Woman — June 19, 2007 @ 6:16 pm

  2. I think you, but maybe not Hillary, missed the obvious fact that it was the AUDIENCE that got whacked at the end of The Soprano’s.

    Comment by John — June 20, 2007 @ 10:40 am

  3. I would have chosen something by W.A.S.P.

    Comment by ChrisV82 — June 20, 2007 @ 12:39 pm

  4. Not to get all ‘Bob-Harriss-y” (Just coined that one), it’s pretty obvious that Bill and Hil aren’t at the table at the same time. At no time do we see any shot where the two of them are recognizable and in the frame together. There’s one shot of Hillary with an over-the-shoulder shot of ‘Bill,’ but it’s the back of a head of white hair. The other 2-shot has a waiter in front of ‘Hillary,’ so all we see is arms and hands of a woman in a black sweater.

    Not reading anything into it–they’re both busy folks–but it’s something I noticed.

    yeharr

    Comment by balloon pirate — June 21, 2007 @ 12:12 pm

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