{"id":236,"date":"2006-06-25T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=236"},"modified":"2015-11-02T17:39:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T01:39:43","slug":"exploiting-emotional-investment-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/06\/25\/exploiting-emotional-investment-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploiting emotional investment seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"I'm<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

S<\/span>ure… you can try to cash out your relationship to the tabloids… but the money from that is here and gone like a found bindle of… someone else’s forgotten dreams.<\/p>\n

No… to fully exploit your investment in a relationship you’ve gotta grow<\/span> it. Now, we’re pretty much talking about mushrooms on a corpse, here, of course.<\/p>\n

But circle of life and all that… media life.<\/p>\n

This<\/span> version of Soap Opera<\/span> is a bit of a reinvention, musically. It’s still a blues but I recast it into a set of mostly harmonic minor progressions that give it a mock seriousness that amused me. I like to be amused, so here it is.<\/p>\n\n

January 23 version<\/a>
\nMarch 18 version<\/a><\/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":"

\u00a0 Sure… you can try to cash out your relationship to the tabloids… but the money from that is here and gone like a found bindle of… someone else’s forgotten dreams. No… to fully exploit your investment in a relationship you’ve gotta grow it. Now, we’re pretty much talking about mushrooms on a corpse, here, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,340],"tags":[182,823,97,102,180,181,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1914,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/1914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}