July 4ths
Antipode: January 4ths 7/4/1886 Thomas Sullivan Diary (AI-Generated) Black-out lyric: 7/4/1969 (Beatles Studio Diary) Overdub onto the newly reduced Golden Slumbers and use of found recordings from the BBC Radio 2 broadcast of Britons and Jones winning The Wimbledon Ladies Tennis Championship beating Billie Jean King in a 71-minute three set. 7/4/1998 Interesting that Springsteen’s Born In The USA was misconstrued by most (including Lee Iacocca and Ronald Reagan) as some type of patriotic anthem, which it wasn’t, but sounded that way. The lessons here are: 1) if you write a song that sounds like an anthem, that’s how it will be perceived, regardless of what the lyrics say, and 2) most people don’t listen to the lyrics anyway. [7/4/2025: I still think this is mostly true. The sound washes over you first–tone and image are everything in pop music. But with AI,...
