{"id":188,"date":"2006-03-19T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T07:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=188"},"modified":"2015-11-01T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T22:46:50","slug":"im-gonna-write-a-soap-opera-and-youre-going-to-be-the-heroine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/03\/19\/im-gonna-write-a-soap-opera-and-youre-going-to-be-the-heroine\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m gonna write a soap opera and you’re going to be the heroine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Soap<\/p>\n

I always figured I’d grow up and be some kind of Madison Avenue type. I liked their style in the movies. They seemed to have the prettiest wives — or the hippest bachelor pads if they weren’t married.<\/p>\n

And, from my studies in front of the television, I knew that Mad Ave types had more sophisticated ways of dealing with sticky interpersonal entanglements — and particularly creative and craftful ways of dealing with situations that might see the less sophisticated resorting to insult, invective, or even violence.<\/p>\n

What better way, I always thought, of doling out a little comeuppance than to put a troublesome ex-love or a friend who has betrayed you smack in the middle of his or her own soap opera, you know, a real TV soap opera. Finally a chance to argue it all out before the court of public opinion — all, of course, without the ex-friend’s input, which would only get in the way of the poetic truth<\/span> of the situation.<\/p>\n

A note on today’s song: <\/span>Today’s entry is a bit different. It’s still highly informal, but it’s more a full band demo for a possible project.<\/p>\n

[revised mix posted Sunday, 2006-03-19 23:30 UTC<\/span>]<\/p>\n\n

previous AYoS version<\/a> (Jan 23)<\/p>\n

I’m Gonna Write a Soap Opera<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m gonna write a soap opera
\nyou’re gonna be the heroine
\nI’m gonna show the world just how ya think
\nI’m gonna write a soap opera<\/span>
\nI won’t have to make up a thing<\/span>
\nWhen we get the ratings back
\nyou know I’ll take you out for a drink<\/p>\n

I’ll get a famous model
\nto play your part for you
\nI was gonna ask you but you’re always busy
\nWe’ll get a famous model<\/span>
\nI know she’ll do real good, too<\/span>
\nWhen the plot gets thick
\nShe’ll be skinny enough to wriggle through<\/p>\n

I’m gonna sell the rights
\neverywhere I can
\nthere’ll be games and dolls and underwear
\nI’m gonna sell the rights<\/span>
\nI suggest you buy up while you can<\/span>
\nI said I’d make you famous
\nI think by now you understand<\/p>\n

(C)1990, TK Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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