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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 3016
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 10:21 am: | 
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Bob Dylan. Yo-Yo Ma. Sheryl Crow. Jay-Z. These aren't musical acts in a summer concert series: They're artists featured on Barack Obama's iPod.
"I have pretty eclectic tastes," the Democratic presidential contender said in an interview to be published in Friday's issue of Rolling Stone.
Growing up in the '70s, Obama said, he listened to the Rolling Stones, Elton John and Earth, Wind & Fire. Stevie Wonder is his musical hero from the era. The Stones' "Gimme Shelter" tops his favorites from the band.
The Illinois senator's playlist contains these musicians, along with about 30 songs from Dylan and the singer's "Blood on the Tracks" album. Jazz legends Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker are also in the mix.
"Actually, one of my favorites during the political season is 'Maggie's Farm,'" Obama said of one of Dylan's tracks. "It speaks to me as I listen to some of the political rhetoric."
In the song, Dylan sings about trying be himself, "but everybody wants you to be just like them."
...Asked what he thought of rap, Obama said the genre has broken down barriers within the music world, though he's concerned about his daughters — Malia, 9, and Sasha, 7 — listening to it.
"I am troubled sometimes by the misogyny and materialism of a lot of rap lyrics," he said, "but I think the genius of the art form has shifted the culture and helped to desegregate music."
He said hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and rappers Jay-Z and Ludacris were "great talents and great businessmen."
"It would be nice if I could have my daughters listen to their music without me worrying that they were getting bad images of themselves," he added.
Obama appears on the cover of the magazine, which endorsed him for president in March.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 7031
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - 12:12 pm: |
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If you believe this I got some swamp land I want to show you.
He has time to listen to music like he bowls and like Bill Clinton had time to read Walter Moseley or George W. Bush had time to run a ranch.
This is all for public consumption.
No doubt when he can the man listens to jazz or classical music and his handlers told him that he shouldn't do that to avoid the elitilst tag
If he listens to music at all
I don't blame him, though.
The name of the game is to try to look as near to "human" as you can. |
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