Art of the Internet: A Protest Song, Reloaded - New York Times
Wake Me Up When September Ends - Katrina Video
"Some songs have all the luck. They lead double, even triple lives, meaning everything to everyone, and meaning it passionately.
Last month, Green Day's 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' was serving both as a protest song against the war in Iraq and as a patriotic ballad. It was (and still is) one of the most requested music videos on MTV. Now, thanks to the Internet, it is a song about the devastation that followed Katrina.
Today, it's the same old song with a different meaning. Two weeks ago, Karmagrrrl, a blogger also known as Zadi, paired the Green Day ballad with television news coverage of Katrina and posted it at her Web site, smashface.com/vlog. Her video fits the lyrics like a glove.
Karmagrrrl's video begins with a view of green trees out the window of a bus. "Summer has come and passed, the innocent can never last," the song goes. "Wake me up when September ends." On the floor of the bus, you see a pair of red sneakers toeing the headline "HELP US" on a folded copy of The New York Post from Sept. 1. The picture in the newspaper shows a pair of feet in cardboard sandals." (more)
By SARAH BOXER
Published: September 24, 2005
posted by JOlmsted @ 7:03 AM
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