Holy Crap -- The New Pink/Indigo Girls Song is Good!

[Bleacher Creature]

Courtesy of Atrios

http://www.fridayfishwrap.com/fridaytunes/dearmrpresident.mp3

[Mythsaje]

1. Yeah. I heard it yesterday.

Pretty damn cool.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=865943

as you can see, I tried getting this out, but nobody was very interested

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. It's been posted a lot here since last Wed.

And it can't be posted enough, IMO. Great great song!!

[Gabi Hayes]

9. I know....I hope people pass it on

[MADem]

3. Jesus, Mary and Grape Nuts!!!!! That is GOOOOOOOOD!!!! n/t

[Tigress DEM]

13. What MADem said. Whooo!

Wonder if Air America will play this?

I think they might, but it would fit with MSM soft rock format too.

[mike_c]

4. OMG-- K&R-- that is amazing....

Wow. Just wow.

[niallmac]

5. Wow! What a protest song.

I hear this group and think of how many times it has been the female species that has stood up for the cause...lots.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. It makes me cry

Damn she tells it straight.

[Lithos]

8. Very nice

It's hard to make a good protest song that doesn't sound preachy. This is a very good song and it has a great story to tell. Definitely check it out.

L-

[Kenergy]

10. That is good! Thanks ! n/t

[Glimmer of Hope]

11. Wonder if this will get any air play? It is very good and she is getting

a lot of press lately.

[Tigress DEM]

19. Her reviews on Amazon.com are pretty good. I added mine.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/preview-review.html/104-7301423-0413527

How do you sleep when the rest of us cry?, April 9, 2006

Reviewer: TigressDEM - See all my reviews

Dear Mr President is the new song a lot of people have been looking for. Yeah, it's a verbal body slam, but it's the way a lot of us feel. We would just like the man in the White House to wake up someday and care about the people he represents.

A pRes who has taken as much vacation as this one has knows NOTHING about hard work. Pink and the Indigo Girls are speaking truth to power and she is putting herself down in the history books with musicians like Dylan and Springsteen who speak from the heart about their experience.

I haven't heard the whole album, but I'm going to buy it for just this song and from other reviews I've read I think I'll be happy with the rest.

[Tigress DEM]

22. Called my local radio station and asked for it.

They don't have it yet, but they said they would look. If we all call once or twice a day until these people put it on their playlists, it will get played.

[Amaya]

12. Amazing!!

hope this gets airplay.

[Tigress DEM]

14. DU thread is #1 hit on Google for the full phrase

pink indigo girls dear mr president

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pink+indigo+girls+dear+mr+president&btnG=Google+Search


Way to go KyndCulture !!!


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x839364

Pink featuring Indigo Girls - Dear Mr. President - WELL DONE Ladies!

[ThsMchneKilsFascists]

15. very good stuff

thanks for posting this

[Shine]

21. Welcome to DU!

:toast:

[ThsMchneKilsFascists]

27. thank you for the welcome !

:toast:

[Hamlette]

16. she was just on 20/20 but I didn't see it

you'd think she would of talked about the song. Anyone see it?

It's beginning to feel like the 60s...or at least sound like them. Funny, I remember anti establishment songs from that era were by and performed by guys...now its chicks.

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

24. Thank god somebody is speaking

nm

[Shine]

17. Well, I'm crying. Damn, that was powerful.

:cry:

I'm definitely passing that one around....

[BattyDem]

18. AWESOME!

:applause:

[Tigress DEM]

20. Rolling Stone review is good too.

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/9558059/rid/9580060/?rnd=1144631712512&has-player=true&version=6.0.12.1069

Pink is ambitious the way Madonna used to be: a mess of contradictions and complications with a knack for making those inner conflicts bolster her art. It took guts for her to follow her 2001 smash Missundaztood with 2003's Try This -- an uneven album that included punky collaborations with Rancid's Tim Armstrong -- when she could have coasted with more of the same Destiny's Child-like grooves that first charmed radio on songs such as 2000's "There You Go."

[Bleacher Creature]

23. These two lines are amazing . . .

"What kind of father would take his own daughters rights away?
And what kind of father would hate his own daughter if she were gay?"

[Rainscents]

25. Excellent and very powerful!!!

K & R !!! :kick:

[bloom]

26. thanks for posting

I hadn't noticed it before.

[davidlynch]

28. K&R That is really a tear-jerker

[Shine]

29. kick

:kick:

[Yollam]

30. Added to my iTunes.

Good stuff.