Willie Nelson - Summertime
Someone in the Sanders campaign is a fan of cowboy hippie surf rock.
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Yesterday afternoon, Bernie Sanders (aka a member of Bernie Sanders social media team) retweeted a link (which has since been deleted, it seems) to a song called Superdelegate, via someone named Lukas Autry Nelson:
What was immediately apparent was that this was one weird song, from the old-school, psycheledic sound to the extremely literal, often painful lyrics: Change your mind, superdelegate/You have to find just where were at/Youre a fool/You can be bought by who you represent.Gawkers Ashley Feinberg went so far as to call it why-is-blood-streaming-from-my-ears bad, and while that may be a tad extreme, theres no denying that as far as political protest songs go, Superdelegateis no Killing in the Nameespecially since its message targets an oddly specific and not particularly sexyaspect of our political system.
That actually made it a pretty good fit for the Sanders campaign, since he and his supporters have been vocally opposed to the huge lead Hillary Clinton has gained from said superdelegates. Still, within 24 hours the tweet had vanished, along with Sanders retweet, probably due to the scorn the song attracted afterGawkers post: Senator, hire better Tweeters,wrote one commenter. My brain is literally in pain right now, wrote another.
But an already strange sequence of events gets even stranger when you look at the players involved:Lukas Autry Nelson, the man behind both the original tweet and the song itself,is the frontman for Promise of the Real, a band that describes its music ascowboy hippy surf rock, as accurate a description of the genre Superdelegate falls into if there ever was one. Hes also Willie Nelsons son(yes,thatWillie Nelson). POTR have toured with Lukas" father and with Neil Young in the past, and they released their third album, Something Real,earlier this year. Now, apparently, they are also #FeelingtheBern.
Source: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/05/26/_superdelegate_song_bernie_sanders_retweeted_is_by_willie_nelson_s_son_lukas.html
