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Yoon, Flaherty use same cliched song to appeal to the disaffected youth of today
By adamg on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 12:19pm
David Bernstein is put out that Sam Yoon and Michael Flaherty both used "Shipping Up to Boston" on their music face-off today on WFNX:
... Maybe [Yoon] was trying to be funny, using the Dropkicks to beat the Irishman. I don't know; all I know is that they USED THE SAME GODDAM SONG!!!!! ...
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Why does Flaherty need a song when he has such awesome ads?
http://1smootshort.blogspot.com/
Eh, its got the word
Eh, its got the word "Boston" in it... If this were the 1980's everyone would list "Dirty Water" as their fav song as well.
Maybe It's Easier to Copy than to Create
A couple of months ago Sam had Good/Better analogies on his website too.
If that song wasn't played
If that song wasn't played once an hour on every rock station in Boston and then again at every sporting event then I think he'd have a gripe.
Funny
I've also had trouble finding a differentiator in any of the candidates. I do find Yoon to be a bit petulant (see: Peter Campbell) so I don't think I'd vote for him anyway.
Why Flaherty played the song
From the Flaherty campaign:
That's exactly right
Boosting our creative economy is a great way for us to bring more revenue into our city and help us grow our way out of this economic downturn. This is the first time I am posting here, but I think this is a perfect opportunity to help answer questions people have about my plan to help our city's artistic community.
One of the first things I plan on doing is reorganizing our city’s structure to allow for a high level position that directly oversees, coordinates, and facilitates all city programs relevant to the promotion of the city’s artistic community. This person will work directly with individual artists, arts-related businesses, as well as help create educational programs both within the city’s schools and the colleges and universities. We need to help the members of the artistic community so that they can in turn help our city.
It was great having Ken Casey call into WFNX this morning and let the residents of our city know that I am very serious about reaching out to artists and providing them with the leg up they need to get the ball rolling. If you want to read my full white paper on the creative economy go to my website's Issues page. http://michaelflaherty.com/?l=issues
MF
Flaherty gets a leg up on the competition
This quote wouldn't be half as funny if the press release hadn't gotten the name of the song wrong, but hey:
And the need to FIND A WOODEN LEG!!
Glad I wasn't the only one
Glad I wasn't the only one who saw that! "Ship it up to Boston," LOL! And it's a peg leg, nobody has established whether it is wooden. Ahab had a leg made from whale bone.
Sorry Henry but the lyric is
Sorry Henry but the lyric is wooden leg "to find my wooden leg! I'm a sailor peg..."
Hmmm. I'd have sworn the
Hmmm. I'd have sworn the line was "find my peg leg."
Sorry...
Sorry...