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...again sings the national anthem at a sports game; on the show it was a baseball game, here it’s a rodeo, and he actually sings a made-up Kazakh anthem to the tune of ours (one highlight: “Kazakhstan number one producer of potassium, other nations have inferior potassium”). These jokes are all still funny, but a satirist of Cohen’s skill could certainly have devised new tricks to play on Americans this time...
Most of the best stereotypically “American” rock songs were written at least partly as bitter parodies; witness Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” penned as an Okie anthem in response to Irving Berlin’s saccharine “God Bless America.” Not everyone heard Guthrie’s original lyrics protesting the plight of people who “stood there hungry” in line at the relief office; George H.W. Bush, an unrepentant booster of privatization and welfare...
Springsteen himself is known for covering “This Land” on tour, prefacing his performances with the song’s full backstory, making it clear that his own anthem “Born in the U.S.A.” falls in the same camp as Guthrie’s protest song. The Boss wasn’t wrapping himself in the flag in this song, but calling out a nation for their callous treatment of Vietnam vets. Like Guthrie’s work, the song was misunderstood and appropriated by politicians, this time within a matter...
...highly influential group in 1991, Byrne dabbled in writing scores for theater, film and ballet, and directed a documentary about Brazil's candomblé religion. Since then, his work has embraced public art, sound installations, sculpture, drawing and - somewhat implausibly for the man who co-wrote the underground anthem Psycho Killer - embroidery. It therefore comes as no surprise to learn that Byrne is also an accomplished photographer...
...paper, the Aterciopelados don't always sound promising. In a given song, the band might combine pop with Andean pan flutes and less-than-subtle lyrics reminiscent of protest songs from the '60s. Their newest album, entitled Oye, has an anthem called, literally, Protest Song (Canci?n Protesta in the original Spanish). Other lyrics tend towards love and karma and the cosmos. It sounds like it could be the worst combination of the politically trite with the New Age - but it's not. The Aterciopelados have been the critical darling of the rock en espa?ol scene for good reason. And their...