Join the Creative Process

I know that most of you ignore my music posts, but this one is pretty quick and is related to the political stuff I've been writing lately, so you may be interested.

Anyway, as one of the few right-leaning musicians in the alternative metal genre, I feel it's my duty to inject some ideological diversity into the mix, as I did with the Suspended Agitation stuff, etc.

To this end, I've begun writing what will most likely be the first of many songs protesting the Obama presidency. It's called "Keep the Change," and it's going to focus mainly on his socialist leanings and his creepy cult of personality. It's still in the early stages, but I had a fun idea for the intro that I had to test immediately before I forgot it.

Basically, I took a bunch of voice samples pertaining to The One and his rise to the presidency and mixed them together with some effected drums and synth effects in GarageBand (it's admittedly a tribute to Dream Theater's "The Great Debate"), then added some MIDI riffs and drums that I wrote in TuxGuitar.

This is where you come in. I'm posting an MP3 of what I have so far, and I'd appreciate a bit of feedback on how effective it is, how much you can understand the sound bytes, etc.

In addition, there's a bit of a musical "Easter egg" between the samples and the couple of original riffs I've written, but you'll have to listen to find out what it is! Feedback on that would be great as well, if you recognize it. I think it's both funny and appropriate.

Once again, if you have two minutes, check this out. I'm still trying to perfect it, and I want to make sure that it doesn't come across as being somehow pro-Obama:

Click here to download KTC (sample).mp3

So, does it work? Did you laugh at the musical allusion? Let me know what you think. Also, as soon as I have lyrics written, I'll post them as well.

Finally, if you just plain don't care about my music, feel free to comment on that fact so I stop wasting my time writing these posts. I realize that people do read SIT, after all, and I want to accomodate my audience at least a little.