As campaign season heats up around the country, it’s a safe bet the internet will soon be deluged with music videos produced by musically inclined boosters in support of their preferred candidates.
Typically, this is a national phenomenon reserved for presidential elections. (Remember Obama Girl? How about Hank Williams Jr.’s “The McCain-Palin Tradition”?) To our knowledge, there has never been an original music video made in support of a local candidate for any office at a town, state or federal level — though why “Bernie and the Jets” doesn’t exist yet is beyond us.
That all changed today when Nate Orshan — aka Nato — threw his musical weight behind the Democratic candidate in Burlington’s mayoral race, Miro Weinberger, with a song and video called “Let’s Go Miro.”
In just under three catchy-as-hell minutes, Orshan espouses Weinberger’s various virtues, including that he’s a “Green Mountain Boy through and through,” has “mad negotiation skills” (skillz?), and will “get with our creditors and sort out all our bills.” High praise. Though that last one is a touch confusing, since in general pop-music parlance, when you “get with” someone, it means … er, something other than negotiating. Then again, that could well be a creative strategy for reining in the city’s debt.
This article appears in The Health & Fitness Issue 2012.
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The mess the next Mayor will be saddled with, could lead to an Ode song such as Billie Jo Mcallister jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Instead it may we worded this way, Wanda, Kurt or Miro jumped off the Winooski Bridge.
Trying to make him cool? Good luck.
Thanks Dan for sharing “Let’s Go Miro” with Blurt readers! I see that Tyler Machado has a formidable list of could-be #BTV mayoral songs percolating over at storify.com/tylermachado/mostl… . I think that’s the new inspirational go-to for any future 2012 #BTVmayor songs.
Burlington’s been run like that Italian cruise ship for many years now:
So this is the tale of the castways, They’re here for a long, long time, They’ll have to make the best of things, It’s an uphill climb.
The Mayor and the Council too, Will do their very best, To make the others comfortable, In the northern lakeshore nest.
No telecom, No BED, no (idling) motor cars, Not a single luxury, Like Robinson Crusoe, As primative as can be.
So join us here each week my friends, You’re sure to get a smile, From several stranded castways, Here on “Burlington’s Isle.”