Hey! I am a 16-year-old high school junior from Methuen, Massachusetts. “Bush Was Right” is AWESOME! I heard the 49 second clip from RightMarch.com, and I just purchased the CD single. Nearly student at my high school is conservative, and I can’t wait to share it with them. I contacted KISS 107.9 FM, our local radio station that nearly everyone between the ages of 14 and 24 listens to, and I asked them to consider playing “Bush Was Right.” I’m sick of hearing Eminem and Green Day trash our great leader and our military, and so is everyone else up here in Methuen. If radio will play biased music, they must, in my opinion, play music from both sides of the political spectrum. Our beliefs are not being represented by Eminem or Green Day. Our beliefs are being represented by bands like you. The next time you’re up here in the Boston area, look for me in the crowd, because I’ll be there!

Good luck, and best wishes,
– D.J.: Methuen, Massachusetts

I remain puzzled. When the hell did our teenagers become politicized to the point where their identities are located as “liberal” and “conservative”? (Yes, even in suburban Methuen, Massachusetts, where “Nearly student […] is [according to D.J.] conservative” and thus would be highly susceptible to the music of “The Right Brothers”, which the Boston, Massachusetts-based station KISS 97.9 (I looked it up… it comes from out of Boston, that evil liberal bastion. Obviously it’s official call letters is not “KISS”, and — that being the Eastern United States, starts with a “W”.)

I also have an additional thought: are they really sure they want to have this song (possible video found here) on MTV’s “Total Request Live”? Have you ever seen Total Request Live? Do they know what they’d be getting into if, by some bizarre flucuations of events, the video to thie Billy Joel riff rip-off Right-wing agit-prop found its way onto the video? If it’s anything like it was last time I saw any of it a few years back, it’s the video, cut off with distraction after distraction, email messages crawling on the bottom proclaiming the awesomeness of the song/video being (sort of) played, every 15 seconds footage of a teenager yelling something about how “hot” a member of the band is. All of which lead me to wonder: is the attention span of my generation (skew a few years younger than I) roughly that of a water-logged sponge? I don’t know.

And by the way: in the wake of 9/11, the pop universe was saturated with songs about “Heroes”. The zeitgist marches forward.

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