The Markowitz campaign sent out the musical playlist for the “official” campaign kickoff event earlier this week:
The “Deb for Vermont Official Announcement Play List”
Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)
Dierks BentleyBack On the Train
PHISHRock with You
The JacksonsBlinded by the Light
Bruce SpringsteenThe Best
Tina TurnerShining Star
Earth, Wind and FireSir Duke
Stevie WonderThis is Our Moment
Kenny ChesneyAin’t No Stopping Us Now
McFadden and WhiteheadStill the One
OrleansUse Somebody
Kings of Leon
Although I’ll never complain about something that has both Stevie and EWF, a bit pedestrian… “Still the One”? Puh-leeze. Didn’t McCain or someone use that? And to be still the one, don’t they need to actually be the one, first?
And no, I’m not complaining due to lack of the theme from Shaft or some 20-minute long 70’s Yes epic, so don’t even go there.
Her campain must have paid a lot of money to get the copyrights to all that music.
Given the wide-spread mis-understanding of the lyrics to “Blinded by the Light” I find that to be a pretty odd choice.
but I don’t see the point of a campaign “play list.” This is the kind of peripheral nonsense that makes me wonder whether or not we, as a nation, have the attention-span left to operate a functional democracy.
… for a few too many Vermonter (and Americans in general):