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Started by LMNO, January 26, 2017, 12:42:52 AM

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LMNO

Ok, maybe wrong subforum.

But, I'm in a political punk band. We're against Trump. Duh.

I want to make a song that is about gerrymandering. But I don't want to be preachy, and I don't want to be sardonic.

I want it to be catchy, and informative, and pissed off.  Not sure where to start.

MithridatesXXIII

In one column every thing that gerrymandering does. Another column, metaphors and analogies for each item. Same for motives and impacts. Powerful symbolism will emerge. I don't know how to compose music nor how lyrically dense you intend the song to be, but I think that would be a good start.

Prelate Diogenes Shandor

Worse than gerrymandering is the fact that the senate is done by state and that representative districts, whether gerrymandered or not, have to conform to state boundaries.

For that I would use the hyperbolic statement that Montana's (for example) senators and representative get their jobs by default because they only have three people there
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Roly Poly Oly-Garch

"Project Redmap," "Maptitude," and "Ratfucked" are all pretty delicious terms.

They've got the numbers but we've got the analytics.

Something cute about using Saturday's porn searches to figure out who would vote for slut-shamers on Sunday.

Highly recommend finding interviews with David Daley. There could be a lot of inspiration in there.


Back to the fecal matter in the pool

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

I know where I would start, and that is with drawing lines. You can incorporate lyrics about deciding and winning and losing.

You draw the lines wherever it suits you
The map decides who wins and who loses
Don't think about the lives of the losers
Just draw the lines
Just draw the lines

etc.









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LMNO

The chorus I came up with is "Redraw the lines".  I also managed to use the phrase "Cartography Warfare".

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: LMNO on January 30, 2017, 09:36:53 PM
The chorus I came up with is "Redraw the lines".  I also managed to use the phrase "Cartography Warfare".

Nice!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


LMNO

In full:

Stacked and packed and trapped with your faction
Pushed aside, minimalized
Voices silenced when there's no reaction
Try to lift twice your size

Redraw the lines

Red ink barriers, infighting tearing us
Purposely flawed
Some get scared, some say who cares
Change is outlawed

Redraw the lines

The few choose the way you will lose
But they say it's fair
It's not like in school, the minority rules
Cartography warfare

Redraw the lines

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

I like it. All too accurate.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


LMNO

All those years of listening to Reagan-era hardcore is really paying off.

MithridatesXXIII

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Ziegejunge

Those are some dang fine lyrics there, LMNO. Looking forward to seeing more!

The Good Reverend Roger

Like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a rifle, whose flame
Is the imprisoned Person of Color, and her name
Mother of whitey. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide colonialism; her stony eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your hungry mouths!" cries she
With silent lips. "Keep your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Keep these, the homeless, tempest-tossed refugees,
I build a wall across the golden door!"

- updated poem on the Statue of Liberty
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LMNO


The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: LMNO on January 31, 2017, 07:34:57 PM
Damn.  That's good.

If you can't make the inscription on the statue of liberty into a horrible dystopian song, LMNO, then you need more punk in your diet.

:lulz:

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- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
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