HOT: Moby to Dick: Seriously?!
The man whose campaign rallies featured music by artists that despised everything he represents (including the persistent use of The Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” as head-scratching rally-closer) reportedly is unable to attract bigly musical acts to perform at events surrounding his upcoming presidential inauguration (although Country act Big & Rich has recently signed on!). And Donald Trump’s team apparently finds no shame in trying to hire artists who’ve been almost violently vocal about their opposition to Trump. The best example yet is Moby, an Electronic music legend and writer of angry-but-smart op-ed posts and pieces warning of the danger of Trump, who expressed bewilderment recently after being asked to DJ at an inaugural ball. That’s like Obama asking Ted Nugent to play his farewell party.
WARM: POTUS Scores Job Offer
Speaking of the president, Obama has scored a pretty cushy job offer for which he’s uniquely qualified. After allegedly joking that he was waiting for a job at Spotify (because “I know y’all loved my playlist”), the streaming service posted a jokey help-wanted ad on its website for the “Presidents of Playlists” position, with requirements like a Nobel Prize and eight years of experience “running a highly-regarded nation.” He should act fast; that “highly-regarded” part might not be true much longer.
COLD: Call It Shamilton
Soft Rock champ and drunken-black-out soundtracker Jimmy Buffett is no stranger to finding new ways of making money off of his old songs and beach-bum image, creating a restaurant chain named after his most famous song (“Margaritaville”) and more recently releasing what blog.margaritaville.com calls a “hilarious” new Christmas album, featuring the cringe-inducing “Twelve Days of Christmas (Parrothead Version).” Now Buffett will somehow be able to add “Broadway show visionary” to his resume, after it was announced that his musical Escape to Margaritaville, about a group of 65-year-old friends drunkenly looking for their car in the parking lot after a Buffett concert (or something) and built around Buffett’s classics, is headed to the Great White Way in 2018.
This article appears in Jan 4-11, 2017.