Pop Culture Ruins Everything For Me

One of the main things I like about my Blackberry is that I can use music clips as ringtones. The one I selected for incoming calls is Rick James' Superfreak. It's very energizing and puts me in the right mood to interact with the callers. Now some dopey bank commercial is playing nonstop on TV using the song and I just don't feel that I can continue listening to it as my ring tone.

As if that wasn't bad enough, listen to this: I have dedicated ringtones for most of my frequent callers and the one I use for the person who calls most often and usually with some urgent end-of-the-world information is Midnight Oil's Beds Are Burning, not for the political message but for the "better jump up and start running" image that it calls up for me to imagine my mattress is aflame.

But now look - Celebs to Sing Song to Stop Global Warming

"British rock group Duran Duran and heavy metal band Scorpions are among 55 world celebrities who have joined in recording a song to draw attention to the global warming crisis, organisers said on Monday. The song is part of a mass media campaign on the threats of climate change organised by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, headed by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan. The song [is] entitled "Beds'r Burning", which was originally recorded by the Australian group Midnight Oil in the 1980s,"

Can't they just leave me alone? As you know, I'm not copier. Furthermore, when people copy me, I move on. I wasn't done with Beds Are Burning just yet, but now I'm going to have to drop it. I'm thinking of replacing it with a clip from the clean version of Hollaback Girl :

Let me hear you say, this shhh is bananas
B. A. N. A. N. A. S.
This shhh is bananas
B. A. N. A. N. A. S.

Question: How long until some baby food company uses this for commercial purposes and ruins it for me?

Comments

[beedee]

I feel your pain.

[schmed]

Well, as George Carlin so eloquently stated "Ape shit. Bananas. Ape shit *is* bananas. Think about it, man..."

Try a different Midnight Oil tune - I suggest the part of "Power and the Passion" that goes...

"You take what you get and get what you please
It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knee-ee-ees."

And when that brass section kicks in to take it home, well, it just makes you want to call a liar on his lies.

[tina]

almost afraid to ask.. but what the heck-
What's MY ringtone on your cell??

[dogette]

Totally cracks me up that you use "Beds" for the drama people. HEH

[Cripes, Suzette!]

Your ringtone is eBay by Weird Al

On 9/15/09, [email protected] wrote:

[tina]

phew........ i expected worse. that's pretty cool.