The Awl http://www.theawl.com/ Be Less Stupid Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:30:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 Going Backwards: Jack White Releases Spacey YouTube Autotune Hit as a Single http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/going-backwards-jack-white-releases-spacey-youtube-autotune-hit-as-a-single http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/going-backwards-jack-white-releases-spacey-youtube-autotune-hit-as-a-single#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:30:49 +0000 Dave Bry http://www.theawl.com/2009/11/going-backwards-jack-white-releases-spacey-youtube-autotune-hit-as-a-single
Jack White is to be applauded for the way the he's handling his "I-can-do-whatever-the-fuck-I-want" status atop the contemporary rocker scene. The three bands, the conservationist record label, James Bond themes, high-art ultraviolent videos. And now, best of all, he's releasing as a 7-inch single the audio track of "A Glorious Dawn"-the odd, and oddly affecting, Youtube hit from composer John Boswell that mixes autotuned clips from Carl Sagan's 1980 PBS special Cosmos (plus special guest MC Stephen Hawking) over chillout-room trance beats. Pitchfork's report on the matter also informs us that White recently refused to sing vocals on a collaboration with former Guns n' Roses guitarist Slash. Which seems slightly less important than Carl Sagan's uncanny resemblance to Michael Dukakis.

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Jack White is to be applauded for the way the he's handling his "I-can-do-whatever-the-fuck-I-want" status atop the contemporary rocker scene. The three bands, the conservationist record label, James Bond themes, high-art ultraviolent videos. And now, best of all, he's releasing as a 7-inch single the audio track of "A Glorious Dawn"-the odd, and oddly affecting, Youtube hit from composer John Boswell that mixes autotuned clips from Carl Sagan's 1980 PBS special Cosmos (plus special guest MC Stephen Hawking) over chillout-room trance beats. Pitchfork's report on the matter also informs us that White recently refused to sing vocals on a collaboration with former Guns n' Roses guitarist Slash. Which seems slightly less important than Carl Sagan's uncanny resemblance to Michael Dukakis.

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