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Try To Stay Awake And Remember My Name
Music and politics don’t generally mix very well. Politicians claiming they like Lady GaGa and My Chemical Romance tend to look like embarrassing dads at the school gate whilst anyone who claims they like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin just look like, well, embarrassing dads at the school gate.
Labour, famously, shot to power in 1997 on the back of D:Ream’s ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ – a song which could have been played at every single General Election since the Second World War, if we’re honest.
The inextricable link between that track and Labour’s triumph is clearly not lost on Dave Cam, which is why he soundtracked his manifesto launch this week with a popular top Ten hit from 2004 – Keane’s ‘Everybody’s Changing’.
In a way, this choice shows everything that’s wrong with the Conservative Party. Firstly, they were arrogant enough to use it without permission (drummer Richard Hughes was ‘horrified’ that the Tories had hijacked the song).
Secondly, it’s a choice of song that describes the Tories perfectly – they’ve not bothered to check the details of the content but have simply gone for a great headline. Cameron clearly hasn’t bothered to read the lyrics to ‘Everybody’s Changing’ or think about what relevance they might have to his party’s ambitions for the nation – he’s just gone for a title that includes some vague notion of ‘change’.
Considering it is a song about being stuck in a lonely place whilst the rest of the world are moving on positively with their lives, some might say it’s not a great choice….
Idiot.