turning saints into the sea (12. 456)

Always a treat, we enjoyed this latest mashup from DJ Earworm (previously) that blends rather seamlessly The Killers’ “Mr Brightside” x “Forever Young” by Alphaville x (minimally) Justin Bieber’s “Stay” featuring Kid Laroi. Each of the source tracks are approximately twenty years apart. All three songs thematically similar, the West German synth-pop contribution have heavier undertones disguised by a brighter, triumphant veneer when the label insisted changing the third verse to the sparse ballad from the eponymous first album (also featuring “Big in Japan”) from:

Can you imagine how we won the war?
Little fascist lady she loves you so
Following her leader, she’s getting in tune
The music’s played by the madmen

To lighten it up a bit with:

Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders we’re getting in tune…

The band’s name is from the Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 new-wave tech noir Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution about a secret agent posing as a journalist to infiltrate and try to liberate a dystopian community run by a tyrannical artificial intelligence.

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synchronoptica

one year ago: the terminology of literary criticism (with synchronoptica) 

seven years ago: a screenplay by Ulrike Meinhof plus the first duty-free shop

eight years ago: food insecurity, a visit to Bad Bocklet plus more ransonware attacks

ten years ago: the consequences of the TTIP trade deal plus film pioneer Louis Le Prince

eleven years ago: the right to be forgotten plus more spheres of trade