The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #115385   Message #2480466
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
30-Oct-08 - 10:00 PM
Thread Name: 900 Obama Songs...
Subject: RE: 900 Obama Songs...
This one is very different, but I found it strangely moving.

It is an extraordinary varied collection - highly polished, totally un-polished, desperately sincere, calculating, solitary singers in bedrooms, scratch choirs, rap, reggae, roots music, folk; children, grannies and granddads, old hippies...A lot of it isn't great music, but that's notbtye point. I doubt if anything quite like this has emerged before, it's an unexpected result of the magic technology we now share.

And it couldn't happen in relation to any other country's election. Or, I'd speculate, to any other candidate. Yes there'd be songs, but not this kind of spread of songs.