I want you to be impressed with the maketing synergy I've achieved by releasing my new single, Shark Week (Person Woman Man Camera TV), on the first day of Shark Week.
I'm not so excited for you to hear that I'm not so much a marketing genius as a guy who got lucky that it happens to be Shark Week on a major cable TV channel just as he's releasing a song called Shark Week. I didn't even know until a few days ago that Shark Week is a real thing, not a meme.
The point here is: I have a new song out! Please enjoy it, and please tell everyone in the world about it, and please hit play on it somewhere. It's a full-band song and I think you'll enjoy it. Thank you.
Song of the Newsletter:
Shark Week (Person Woman Man Camera TV)
My friend Jennifer Dhillon gets a songwriting credit. She didn't suggest the key change after the first verse or anything, but it was her idea for me to make up a song based on this rant by dementia sufferer Donald Trump last month, the one where he asked whether he should jump off of a sinking electric boat to avoid being
electrocuted if there was a shark a few yards away, and he interrupted himself for an aside about some "young lady" who got her leg bitten off by a shark, even though the shark wasn't angry. Or something.
Almost everything in the song is Trump's own words, or a slight paraphrase. Some of it is more interpretation than impression, if you know what I mean. I mean I made those lines
up, but they're the kinds of things he would say. Almost everything is, as long as it doesn't make sense or is cruel.
I played acoustic and electric guitar on the recording, and synthesized piano, bass and very simple drums. This is my best sounding recording, and it's not because of my playing. It's because my friend Chad Dickerson mixed and mastered it, things I'm not good at and
he is. I'm thrilled at how good it sounds.
I'm also thrilled with the artwork, which you got a peak at in the header but here it is a little bigger:
