Protest, Schmrotest
One day I will hit upon a traffic-generating scam that will make this blog the Most Popular Destination on the Web.
The revision99 Protest Song UnContest was not it, however. I am reviewing the entries this evening, and I have a few thoughts:
If you're here for the first time, details about the UnContest (which is over unless you want to enter now) can be found here and here.
The revision99 Protest Song UnContest was not it, however. I am reviewing the entries this evening, and I have a few thoughts:
- Thank you, thank you, thank you to those who wrote lyrics and proposed song ideas. My creative days are long in the past, so I really need this stuff if I am going to maintain any sort of illusion of vitality.
- I will not name names at this time, because then everyone will know what a flop the UnContest was. Besides, you know who you are. If any of you "win," - and this is a big if - I will request permission to identify you in this blog.
- Apparently, not many of you are very angry, and those who are, aren't really angry, just a little annoyed. You have to stoke up a pretty heavy head of steam to actually want to write a protest song (or, apparently, even to say a protest sentence), and I guess I just didn't piss off enough of you, enough.
- I thought my list of things to be angry about would get your creative juices flowing, and just in case, my reprint of the lyrics to "Eve of Destruction" should have made it obvious that there would be no reason for embarrassment, no matter what you wrote. But most of you who said anything, said you "didn't know how" to write song lyrics, or that you "suck at" writing song lyrics. You should listen to "Achy Breaky Heart" a few times.
If you're here for the first time, details about the UnContest (which is over unless you want to enter now) can be found here and here.
posted by Larry Jones at 11:20 PM
11 Comments:
I DIDN'T WIN?! Oh, well, how can I stay humble if I start to win stuff? If you'd had a great prize, I probably wouldn't even have entered--that's how humble I am! Truly humble people have to try to stay small. (If you like this truckload, I have heaps more.)
Ron - Keep your shirt on, and hold your horses. I haven't announced a winner yet. You might win.
t1 - This is all in fun. No excuses required, or accepted. Save them for when your term papers are due.
When will I give you my submission? When it's done. You can always make fun of it after the contest. Besides, I'm having so much fun packing my shit into boxes now I haven't had time to sit and strum.
Brent - Please feel free to send it, even though the judges may disqualify you for being more professional than P.F. Sloane and Barry McGuire, the perpetrators of "Eve of Destruction." Or you may want to produce your own song, thus going into direct competition with me. Watch your back.
I'm still working on my song. Don't feel at all bad about moving forward with the UnContest without me. I have no idea when I'll have it finished, and it's not turning out to be much of a protest song anyway.
D'Cat - There will be absolutely no extensions granted, except for those who are late. As for "...not much of a protest song..." how many times do I have to mention "Eve of Destruction?"
I wasn't saying it's a bad song, just that it's not working out to be a protest song.
I have absolutely no creative aptitude when it comes to music, I'm afraid, so that's my excuse, as lame as it is :P
Gosh, I always kinda liked "Eve of Destruction", though I didn't want to buy the record. I guess next you'll be teaching me that the Beatles "Number Nine" was sub-par and an audio nightmare. Ummm, you might be right.
But I still like it.
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