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Rdtf
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 Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 6:09 pm Post subject: Bush Aide Reveals President's iPod Playlist |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/12/bush.ipod/index.html
| Quote: | Bush bares soul with 'iPod One'
By CNN's Peter Wilkinson
Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Posted: 6:45 AM EDT (1045 GMT)
(CNN) -- The music tastes of U.S. President George W. Bush have come under scrutiny after an aide revealed the playlist of his new iPod player.
The portable digital device, given to Bush by his daughters Jenna and Barbara last July, contains much country music, but also songs by Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison and the Knack.
The MP3 player, which can store up to 10,000 songs, only contains about 250, according to the New York Times, which first reported the story.
"iPod One," as the player has been dubbed, is used by Bush while he pedals around his Texas ranch on a mountain bike, presidential media adviser Mark McKinnon told the newspaper.
The task of downloading the music falls to the 58-year-old president's personal aide, Blake Gottesman, who buys individual songs and albums from the iTunes music store.
Not every track is "on-message." The playlist -- regarded by many as a mirror to the soul -- includes musicians who campaigned against Bush, such as John Fogarty. Also on the iPod is the 1979 song "My Sharona" by the Knack, about a man pursuing a much younger woman.
One of that song's lyrics, "Such a dirty mind. Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind," prompted Spin magazine editor Dave Itzkoff to comment: "This wouldn't be consistent with Bush's image as protector of conservative values."
Bush, who quit drinking after his 40th birthday, also listens to recovering alcoholic George Jones, a country singer who sings about heartbreak and drinking. Joe Levy, deputy editor of Rolling Stone magazine, said this indicated "a little bit of taste for hard core and honky-tonk."
McKinnon advised though against too much analysis of the playlist. "The fact is that any president who would limit themselves to pro-establishment musicians would have a pretty slim collection.
"No one should psychoanalyze the song selection. It's music to get over the next hill," he told the New York Times.
The playlist does reveal a rather narrow range of babyboomer tunes. Writing in the London Times, Caitlin Moran noted: "No black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles."
Levy agreed, telling the New York Times: "What we're talking about is a lot of great artists from the '60s and '70s and more modern artists who sound like great artists from the '60s and '70s.
"This is basically boomer rock 'n' roll and more recent music out of Nashville made for boomers. It's safe, it's reliable, it's loving. What I mean to say is, it's feel-good music. The Sex Pistols it's not." |
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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I'll bet anyone who knows when the President entered junior high school and where he lived could predict a great deal of any playlist.
People naturally gravitate toward the music that was in vogue when they were in junior high (because that's when they first become aware that their generation has music of their own) and high school.
The attachments remain for many years. I am surprised at how often I can sing along with songs I haven't heard for thirty years.
| Quote: | | The playlist does reveal a rather narrow range of babyboomer tunes. Writing in the London Times, Caitlin Moran noted: "No black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles." |
Out of the 6-8,000 pieces of music on my computer, I believe I may have one or two Beatles songs. I never liked them much until they split up. I have more by George Harrison.
I always loved "My Sharona." (But then, I never understood the lyrics.  )
At least a third of my collection is Country, including Merle Haggard, George Jones, Toby Keith, Brooks & Dunn, Wynonna, Don Gibson, Reba MacEntyre, Trisha Yearwood.
A lot of my current music is Evanescence, but other than she and Tracy Thorn, very little of my modern pop collection is of female artists.
I even have "DOA" and "In the Year 2525."
I guess there's a deep psychological message in all that. 
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Doc Farmer
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I hope none of you find this question to be offensive, but so what? I don't care what's on his IPOD. I do care about his policies.
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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Not offensive at all. I think it's interesting from a cultural viewpoint, but that's it.
By far, his actions and policies provoke the most interest for me, but like a gossip column, it was fun to compare his iPod to my own collection.
I think the music he chooses for workouts is probably a lot like mine would look - if only I engaged in :::whispers:::: exercise. (The original four-letter word.) 
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Rdtf
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| Navy_Navy_Navy wrote: | Not offensive at all. I think it's interesting from a cultural viewpoint, but that's it.
By far, his actions and policies provoke the most interest for me, but like a gossip column, it was fun to compare his iPod to my own collection.
I think the music he chooses for workouts is probably a lot like mine would look - if only I engaged in :::whispers:::: exercise. (The original four-letter word.) |
I agree - it's just fun to know. It humanizes him and reveals a part of his personality. Also tells you what you already know - that he is a lot like you.  |
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USAFE5
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I searched my songs, and voila - only one black artist - Charley Pride, lots of women starting with the late great Patsy Cline, and although I also don't agree with Forgarty's politics, I have lots of CCR and even his newer stuff. And in the far back cubby I found... "Please Mr. Custer" LOL
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