We’ve posted repeatedly about the flood of pop songs being written about the recession, including this one, “Hey, Paul Krugman,” by Jonathan Mann, who writes a song a day and posts it (and an accompanying video) on his website:
In the original post about the Krugman song, I asked why no one had yet written a song in defense of Tim Geithner.
And then … voila! A 23-year-old Canadian songwriter who calls himself PencilsGetTheCar answered the call with “The Treasury Secretary Song.” Sample lyrics:
Timothy, Timothy, Treasury Secretary
Knows what to do when it comes to dough.
Geithner, Geithner drinks his coffee with whitener
Probably, but I don’t know.
Now even better, the original song-a-day man, Jonathan Mann, has agreed to take a request: he’ll write a song about whatever you want. Leave your suggestions below. It doesn’t have to be about the recession — just make it clever, entertaining, wise, witty, etc. Jonathan (maybe with our input) will pick the best suggestion — and the winning suggester will get a piece of Freakonomics schwag. And, of course, a song. We will, of course, post the song here once it’s recorded.
Good luck.
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write a song about iceland
The coming of hyper inflation.
The amount of debt Mr. Mann’s children will have the day they are born.
The effect of raising taxes in a recession.
How about a song about the Roger Federer-Rafael Nadal rivalry?
I’ve read a lot of food trend pieces on diy canning and pickling recently (people going to back to basics to save money). so I would suggest a song about the economic downturn and this food trend, if only for the puns it lends itself to (“canned” from your job, in an economic “pickle,” a “jarring” situation). enjoy!
Obama-Nation.
Newt Gingrich and Chris Matthews stuck in an elevator together for thirteen hours, with one sandwich, a copy of the NY Times and the Washington Post and no cell phone service. What emerges, harmony or only one of them?
about why youtube comments are always so inane.
Online dating.