Billion has a campaign jingle. And words escape me at the moment.
(Hat tip to Mt. Blogmore.)
Jack Billion has a campaign song tonight. And I'm still a little struck by it's awfulness, so please forgive me. I'm having a hard time with words.
Jack Billion has a campaign song tonight. And I'm still a little struck by it's awfulness, so please forgive me. I'm having a hard time with words.
Click on the image to hear it.
It's kind of a bluegrass twangy thing. And you know, I used to find bluegrass relaxing - even soothing. No more.
This is bluegrass which sounds like it was sung by Weird Al. Seriously. Dammit. Billion has ruined a music genre for me.
Personal opinions aside, the campaign song is 1:47 long. Until you get through 1 minute and 30 seconds (1:30) you don't hear anything that allows you to identify the candidate. And then it's 17 seconds of "back Jack." Unfortunately, "back jack" isn't on the ballot.
And the guy who is - "Billion," is not mentioned at all in the song.
So tell me, can you call it a campaign song if it doesn't mention the candidate?
Now, I actually like campaign songs for some stupid reason. "Kennedy Can" is the one many people remember. As far as local stuff, I even remember hearing "Let's go to Pierre South Dakota... With Roger McKellips... He's a man..." in my youth.
In 2002, Tim Johnson had a campaign song. And amazingly enough, it somehow managed to utilize his name. The production values were not quite as nice as the Billion song, but his uses his name. To me, if you're going to go to the bother of a campaign song, that's probably a nice touch.
And 2006 has "Back Jack."
And when campaign weirdness get to the point of talking about the content of campaign songs, I know it's officially time to go to bed. Good night.
This is bluegrass which sounds like it was sung by Weird Al. Seriously. Dammit. Billion has ruined a music genre for me.
Personal opinions aside, the campaign song is 1:47 long. Until you get through 1 minute and 30 seconds (1:30) you don't hear anything that allows you to identify the candidate. And then it's 17 seconds of "back Jack." Unfortunately, "back jack" isn't on the ballot.
And the guy who is - "Billion," is not mentioned at all in the song.
So tell me, can you call it a campaign song if it doesn't mention the candidate?
Now, I actually like campaign songs for some stupid reason. "Kennedy Can" is the one many people remember. As far as local stuff, I even remember hearing "Let's go to Pierre South Dakota... With Roger McKellips... He's a man..." in my youth.
In 2002, Tim Johnson had a campaign song. And amazingly enough, it somehow managed to utilize his name. The production values were not quite as nice as the Billion song, but his uses his name. To me, if you're going to go to the bother of a campaign song, that's probably a nice touch.
And 2006 has "Back Jack."
And when campaign weirdness get to the point of talking about the content of campaign songs, I know it's officially time to go to bed. Good night.
Comments
How many Jacks are there out there? You have to use his last name too people!
Hence, you won't find it here anymore.
Since it involves a project I'm involved in, I'm not going to go into it here.
If you want the truth, you send me a note about it personally at dakotawarcollege@yahoo.com and I'm happy to go into it there.
Yes, and how many of them are running for Governor of SD. Oh yeah, just one.
Send Back Jack!!
So is there anyone else named Jack who is running for a state office?
BTW, I support Billion and will vote for him. I just don't think the song serves its purpose.
....Dam that is a bad sounding tune.
"Hit the road, Jack and don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more..." :-)
The Billion campaign ought to use the money they spent on this silly thing to hire a consultant to explain how the heck they are going to pay for their "ideas."
So is there anyone else named Jack who is running for a state office?
BTW, I support Billion and will vote for him. I just don't think the song serves its purpose."
Does anybody really know the purpose of this song? Because if the purpose was to create a bunch of low rent buzz...y'all are proof that its working.
The song does mention Rounds' last name - if that helps.
Billion's disapproval of HB1215 fits with what most of the pols are saying, except for Wail'n. I guess you could say that Billion is in Thune with what's going on.