We all need to take action-we only have one planet and it is being destroyed. Consider consuming less meat (especially since Americans already eat too much meat and dairy than is normal or healthy). Vote for politicians who take climate change seriously (our sitting president believes climate change is a hoax). Share the work of researchers who study climate change. Yes, please avoid plastic bags and disposable cutlery when possible, but also support organizations that work to end climate change. This could be considered a new genre of music. We need a complete overhaul of our current society. Playing Jolene vinyl record slowed down to 33 rpm and soloing guitar on top of it. If we do not hold these major companies (Chevron, ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, British Petroleum, Gazprom, Shell, the National Iranian Oil Company, etc.) accountable, future generations will be left with a barely habitable planet.Īlso, major meat and dairy companies have become some of the world’s biggest polluters. The fact is, 63% of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution can be traced to just under 100 companies. We are in a desperate situation.Įven if every single person decided to cut disposable plastics out of their lives, the Earth would still be doomed. Thank you for sharing this and speaking out. But that doesn’t mean that just like The Chipmunks, it isn’t bad ass.This is what I told a very well-meaning Facebook friend who posted this image and told everyone to stop using plastic bags. Feelings of vulnerability and fear about who we are and how we stack up when compared with other people is universal, and no other song encapsulates that like “Jolene.” There is nothing really original, or even novel about taking “Jolene” and slowing it down. The reason that Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” became a timeless composition is because it told an original story from an original perspective that almost any human could relate to on a personal level. Why? Has our boredom or busyness and cultural depravity made us more susceptible to bits? It almost reminds me of the conundrum involving Caitlin Rose’s video for her song “Own Side Now.” Her well-produced, professionally-made video has half as many hits as does a little girl singing the song standing in front of the kitchen table. Many songs sung by females and set in a mid-tempo work with this trick. There’s actually an older version of slowed-down “Jolene” that was uploaded over 2 years ago too. I was convinced I was the very first human to ever discover this wonderful vinyl speed-switching phenomenon, and since the internet didn’t exist, there was no proof I wasn’t (though later I’d learn on the internet that the The Chipmunks’ perfected their high pitched voices through speeding up the playback of normal-toned vocals).īut there’s something just a little alarming about a slowed-down song that first surfaced on YouTube over a year ago all of a sudden going viral. I later graduated to tinkering with Top 40 music, and when I put a 45 of Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock n’ Roll” on the slower speed to sludge it out, I figured myself a damned genius. It changed the perspective of my entire little music world. But hell, I remember at some point when I was a little kid, I figured out how I could make all those boring family Christmas albums sound like they were sung by the bad asses of Christmas music known as The Chipmunks by kicking the speed up to 45 RPM on a 33 platter. It’s not that the slowed down song isn’t cool. I don’t know if it’s a bigger commentary on the state of social networking, or the serious depravity of truly meaningful modern songs that the most talked-about country music composition in the last week has been a version of Dolly Parton’s legacy recording “Jolene” put on a record player at a slower speed setting than normal, making it sound like it is sung by a man, and striking a deep 70’s era half-time groove. “Hey, have you heard that version of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene”?!? You know, the one that’s all slowed down and stuff?!?”
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