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Cocker song slams G-8 leaders
Former Pulp frontman posts song online that he says he wrote in the wake of the Live 8 concerts a year ago.
Jarvis Cocker isn't fond of the world's leaders and has taken a rather, umm, direct approach to saying so.
Jarvis Cocker
The former Pulp frontman posted a new song on his MySpace page recently, calling out the leaders of the G-8 in the wake of the Live 8 concerts a year ago.
The song is called "Running the World," although the chorus is, "C***s are still running the world," the first word being a decidedly vulgar reference to the female genitalia.
The song begins as a piano-driven ballad, with Cocker singing in a sincere tone to start, but eventually the tempo picks up, as does the sarcasm.
In a MySpace blog entry, Cocker wrote about the song, "I wanted you to hear it now [because] it's exactly one year since that Live 8 thing and it was the night of that event that I wrote this song. I apologize for all the swearing but sometimes that's the only thing that seems appropriate."
But Cocker wrote that the song wasn't a slam of Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof or the event itself, but more about the G-8 leaders to whom the event was directed.
"It's in no way a criticism of Geldof and co. but I remember thinking at the time: 'Where does engaging with these politicians/businessmen really get you?"--(12 months on and they still haven't paid up as far as I can make out)--maybe the problem is something more ... fundamental."
"Anyway, what do I know? I'm just a pampered rock star--but at least I think it's good to discuss this stuff," he continued.
"Running the World" is the first solo material that Cocker has unveiled since he recorded as Relaxed Muscle in 2003 following Pulp's demise in 2002. Cocker formed Pulp in the late 1970s, and the band reached its heyday in 1995 with the release of Common People.
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