Why Sarah Palin is totally rock’n’roll
Palin combines the DIY ethic of punk with the hamfisted amateurism of a Balkan Eurovision entry. But more than that, faced with a reasonably competent interviewer on live TV she resembles us all in that dream we share about playing guitar live onstage with U2. The one where Bono beckons you into the limelight. You throw an incredibly sexy shape that has millions of watching U2 tards screaming in appreciation. And then you crap yourself as you remember that you can’t actually play a single note.
Except Palin doesn’t crap herself. She babbles on, like Joey from the episode of Friends where he’s convinced that if he makes French-sounding noises, he is in fact speaking French. She is, in short, Jon the Postman, the musically challenged postal worker who got onstage at early punk gigs in Manchester and yelled incoherently in the microphone, and thus became a DIY punk legend and harbinger of the post-Big Brother era where talent and celebrity became entirely divorced.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/oct/02/sarah.palin.rocks
3 years ago