"Big Brother" Myspace exclusive track!

Jul 5, 2008 at 12:24 PM
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Check out Worldview's "Big Brother", a topical UK hip-hop flavoured collaboration with rapper MC Tomohawk, downloadable now as one of the extra tracks at the bottom of the Myspace player (at www.myspace.com/worldview). It was actually recorded over a year ago during the Celebrity BB race row, and Oliver's hooky choruses referencing the TV show and/or the George Orwell flight-of-fancy came to him spontaneously on hearing Tomohawk's politically-flavoured rap, which seems to allude to the distracting, pacifying effect of celebrity and consumer culture. Possibly. Or maybe it's just about guns'n'hoes...

Also downloadable now is Oliver's "classic" song from his solo (in name) years, "Timewasters", which will surely become an actual standard one of these days, perhaps covered by Elvis Costello in his old age. The song originally appeared on Oliver's lo-fi bedroom-recorded "War Years" album in 2002.