We're hearing a lot lately in the news about the US presidential election. The last presidential debate took place yesterday and the election is going to take place in 19 days now.
With that in mind I did a little test on the Internet today. I went to Youtube and did a research with the key words "song, obama" and "song, mccain". The results are quite in agreement with what perspires abroad regarding this election.
The first results for each research was:
- for Obama: Real songs of support notably "Yes, we can" in which celebrities take up Obama's speech (with a bit of a Martin Luther King feeling to it) to create a song. Just to name a few: Will.i.am, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Walsh, Tatyana Ali, Herbie Hancock, John Legend, etc.
- for McCain: let's say that it's not really the same. Most of the results are parody or satirical songs. On the first page of results let's say that the only pro-McCain song is the country song "Raisin' McCain" by John Rich (apparently the official McCain song). The Obama "Yes we can" song has quite a few anti-McCain parodies "John McCain: No, you can't" (in the list of related videos to the Obama song) or the song by John.he.is.
The internet is always an easy way to see the "popular" (in its very first definition) popularity of someone. And this is an example of it. It seems like McCain is going to have a hard time getting back on the horse before 4th November.
Here's the pro-Obama song...
I could have done a research on Sarah Palin, I'm sure there's a lot of interesting songs about her too but I think that no one can beat the Saturday Night Live sketches with Tina Fey playing her (even if Palin really doesn't need to be parodied to look stupid).
"I can see Russia from my house!" Tina Fey as Sarah Palin
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