DEÄTHMÜFFIN UPDATE: ANTICHRIST VS NAZIS!
Nov. 2nd, 2012 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogAs inevitable as Chanel No. 5, Banäna Deäthmüffins – the best death-pastry rock band in Hong Kong and the 38th worst band on Facebook – is back.
Not only that, we are back with two things we’ve never done before:
1. A political song.
2. A music video.
We don’t really do political songs, but we were inspired after seeing a former bandmate of mine in the 90s post his own song for the election. It was a humorous anti-Obama song, and rather clever if yr a Republican who thinks any insulting reference to Obama is comedy gold and a grand political statement about how terrible a president he is.
And I thought, “Well, clearly any schmo can do this.”
That said, I’ve always felt that the challenge of being too overtly political in music is that you’ll alienate people who might otherwise like it. You can afford to do that if yr, say, Neil Young. But when yr fan base is roughly the size of the cast of Gilligan’s Island, not so much.
So I went for something more bipartisan – at least in the sense that I didn’t go after the candidates so much as the batshit political posts I get from both sides on Facebook.
Why a music video for it? No idea, except that during the mixdown, it occurred to me how much fun you could have making a music video for it using a lot of Facebook memes.
Also, it was high time we did a music video, because I’ve heard music videos are going to be a big deal for bands, so why not? And there’s this thing called YouTube that lets you show them to people without having to sleep with anyone at Viacom.
Here you go.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Lyrics by dEFROG
Music by Banäna Deäthmüffins
©2012 Terribly Frog Music. Derechos Reservados!
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No lyric sheet necessary, I think.
CONSUMER ADVISORY: If you’d like to download the song, it’s also available here on the SoundClouds, as is our back catalog to date.
The lesser of two evils,
This is dF
Not only that, we are back with two things we’ve never done before:
1. A political song.
2. A music video.
We don’t really do political songs, but we were inspired after seeing a former bandmate of mine in the 90s post his own song for the election. It was a humorous anti-Obama song, and rather clever if yr a Republican who thinks any insulting reference to Obama is comedy gold and a grand political statement about how terrible a president he is.
And I thought, “Well, clearly any schmo can do this.”
That said, I’ve always felt that the challenge of being too overtly political in music is that you’ll alienate people who might otherwise like it. You can afford to do that if yr, say, Neil Young. But when yr fan base is roughly the size of the cast of Gilligan’s Island, not so much.
So I went for something more bipartisan – at least in the sense that I didn’t go after the candidates so much as the batshit political posts I get from both sides on Facebook.
Why a music video for it? No idea, except that during the mixdown, it occurred to me how much fun you could have making a music video for it using a lot of Facebook memes.
Also, it was high time we did a music video, because I’ve heard music videos are going to be a big deal for bands, so why not? And there’s this thing called YouTube that lets you show them to people without having to sleep with anyone at Viacom.
Here you go.
==============================================
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Lyrics by dEFROG
Music by Banäna Deäthmüffins
©2012 Terribly Frog Music. Derechos Reservados!
==============================================
No lyric sheet necessary, I think.
CONSUMER ADVISORY: If you’d like to download the song, it’s also available here on the SoundClouds, as is our back catalog to date.
The lesser of two evils,
This is dF
