One of the songs I heard being played on Wednesday has an interesting backstory.

Per Wikipedia…

“Wear Sunscreen is the common name[1] of an essay written as a potential commencement speech by Mary Schmich, and published in a June 1997 Chicago Tribune column titled “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young”. The text, giving a series of general advice intended to live a happier life and avoid common frustrations, spread massively via viral email, often erroneously attributed to author Kurt Vonnegut as an actual commencement speech he would have given at MIT.

“The essay became the basis for a successful spoken word song released in 1998 by Baz Luhrmann, “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)”, also known as the Sunscreen Song.[2] The song itself inspired numerous parodies.”

This got me thinking about a couple of similar songs, such as this one by Paul Oakenfold featuring Hunter Thompson, journalist and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas…

Or the numerous combinations of Charlie Chaplin’s Great Dictator monologue with Hans Zimmer’s “Time”…

UPDATE: Some potentially interesting clips that we could potentially do something with.