The very weird campaign song choice of Hillary Clinton

Apparently the Hillary Clinton campaign has started using a song by the dutch rockband Golden Earring called "when the lady smiles".
The problem is that they apparently didn't bother looking at all the lyrics of the song and obviously never watched the video that accompanied it.

Apparently the Hillary Clinton campaign has started using a song by the dutch rockband Golden Earring called "when the lady smiles".
You might know The Golden Earring better from their enormous hit in the 70's called "radar love".
Hillary's campaign probably picked "when the lady smiles" because of it's appropriate chorus that says:

When the lady smiles,
I can't resist her call,
As a matter of fact,
I don't resist at all.

The problem is that they didn't bother looking at all the lyrics of the song and obviously never watched the video that accompanied that same song.

"When the lady smiles" was a big hit in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1984, which explains why I know the song well since I'm a Belgian citizen living in the US.

Some of the other lyrics in the song are:

When the lady smiles, you know it drives me wild,
Her lips are warm and resourceful

My friends tell me, she's the beast inside your paradise

The video features the rape of a nun and a dog eating part of the brain of the rapist. Kind of an awkward choice for a campaign song wouldn't you say?

This reminds me of the time Reagan started using Springsteen's "born in the USA" as a campaign song, without realizing that the song was actually a scathing   critique on the US.

You can find the video for "when the lady smiles" on YouTube:

If you need a reminder on the much bigger hit for The Golden Earring called "radar love", you can watch the following:

•  That's poor planning by the Hillary Gang!

  that's pretty unusual for her gang!

  by Churchill on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:20:48 PM PDT

  •  She's old media

    Never occurred to her gang to check YouTube!  I tell ya, everything's up to date in Rodham City!

    The Music Room.

    by madhaus on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:33:35 PM PDT

    •  But Radar Love is awesome . . .

      just saying.

      by dbratl on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:38:19 PM PDT

      •  THIS IS BULLSHIT

        The diarist offers zero proof - no links - nothing.

        ADMIN - PLEASE CONSIDER TAKING THIS DOWN.

        by Alegre on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 08:16:32 PM PDT

        •  You want proof?

          The campaign people played When the lady Smiles by Golden Earring while the audience was waiting for the arrival of Hillary Clinton in Cedar Falls on January 1st.

          Nine songs that were played:

          - When the Lady Smiles – Golden Earring - I’m a believer – The Monkees - You ain’t seen nothing yet – Bachman-Turner Overdrive - (Dancing in) September – Earth, Wind and Fire - Nine to Five – Dolly Parton - Takin’ care of Business – Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Every little thing she does is magic – The Police - Who says you can’t go home – Bon Jovi - Rock this Country – Shania Twain

          Don't step in your own bullshit there.  

          by LiberalNC on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 09:13:02 PM PDT

    •  gasp

      Wow. You mean there's something odd and awkward and forced and weirdly affected about Hillary? Golly, how unexpected.

      by nocore on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:39:09 PM PDT

      •  "the beast inside your paradise"

        I can see the new ad campaign now!

        by highacidity on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:54:38 PM PDT

  •  THIS IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT !!!!

    The diarist offers up no proof - no links - nothing.

    ADMIN - PLEASE TAKE THIS ABS DOWN.

    by Alegre on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 08:15:37 PM PDT

    •  Im sure you can't read dutch....

      ....otherwise i would show you the blog of the reporter for Public TV News in the Netherlands who's attended several Hillary events and reported on this first.
      Since then a bunch of major blogs and news outlets have reported on this, all you have to do to see this is a Google news search. So you're saying they're all lying?

      by LiberalNC on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 09:29:43 PM PDT

•  Resistance is futile.

  She wants to assimilate us!  OMG!  Hillary is the Borg Queen!

  j/k

  by DaveV on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:21:15 PM PDT

•  I'm still wanting to see someone in the general

  use Ted Nugent's "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang".

  That would be awesome.

  by Sam Loomis on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:22:06 PM PDT

  •  Or Isaac Haye's (aka "Chef" from South Park)...

    Doing "Hold on I'm Coming"

    by Snud on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:27:55 PM PDT

    •  Oh heck, tell Hillary to use "Disco Lady" instead

      Move it in, move it out, move it in, round about!

      The problem is Bill used Fleetwood Mac's hit as his campaign song, so she wants to be cool too.  Maybe I've got a Led Zeppelin hit for her: "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave Ya."  At least it's better than "Whole Lotta Love" in teh tastefulness department.

      The Music Room.

      by madhaus on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:35:25 PM PDT

      •  If we're going Led Zepplin

        we might as well go all the way with "Stairway to Heaven", as an analogy can be made between Hillary and the lady who's sure all that glitters is gold. The fundamental problem with her campaign is: to be a rock and not to roll.

        I just love classic rock.

        by beltane on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:44:05 PM PDT

        •  Or... "Skating Away on The Thin Ice...

          Of A New Day" by Jethro Tull?

          And you were bred for humanity...
          And sold to society...
          One day you'll wake up...
          In the present day...
          A million generations...
          Removed from expectations...
          Of who you are and what you want to be

          (Or something like that...) ;-)

          by Snud on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 06:26:44 PM PDT

        •  Better that than

          Black Country Woman by Zeppelin.

          by Sam Loomis on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 06:47:52 PM PDT

          •  Ha ha ha - The Immigrant Song

            We Are Your Overlords!

            The Music Room.

            by madhaus on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 12:13:33 AM PDT

      •  I think she should embrace Meredith Brooks myself

        http://en.wikipedia.org/...

        Embrace the word, be proud of the word and take away a weapon from the misogynists out there.

        Then again I just love that duet between Aretha Franklin and and Annie Lennox from the 80s, "The Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves"

        by akeitz on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:50:22 PM PDT

  •  One word: Elected! Alice Cooper!

    I wanna see someone use "Elected" on the campaign trail!

    I'm your top prime cut of meat, I'm your choice,
    I wanna be elected,
    I'm your yankee doodle dandy in a gold Rolls Royce,
    I wanna be elected,
    Kids want a saviour, don't need a fake,
    I wanna be elected,
    We're all gonna rock to the rules that I make,
    I wanna be elected!

    "I promise the formation of a new party
    A third party, a Wild Party!
    I know we have problems,
    We got problems right here in Central City,
    We have problems in the North, South, East and West,
    New York City, Saint Louis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles,
    Detroit, Chicago,
    Everybody has problems,
    And personally, I don't care."

    Either that, or "Political Man", by Cream.

    by dconrad on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 06:48:44 PM PDT

•  Ruh-roh! n/t

  by emmasnacker on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:23:11 PM PDT

•  Golden Earring's other US hit was "Twilight Zone"

  I think that could work as a campaign theme this year, too.

  by QuestionableSanity on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:25:26 PM PDT

•  I believe they had a 3rd hit...

  "Twilight Zone". "Radar Love" came out when I was a kid - and I'm pushing 50.

  It is a very weird choice of songs - and bands.

  I was never a big fan of Golden Earring - but another Dutch band, Focus, I love. Their guitarist, Jan Akkerman, has won "Best Guitarist" in Guitar Player magazine polls more than once.

  Here's a clip from a tune they did you may recognize that got airplay. It's "Hocus Pocus" and quite amusing - the only rock song I can recall that features yodeling.

  And yes, that's a very young Gladys Knight introducing the band. Check out Jan Akkerman totally shredding the solos - he really was/is an unbelievable player:

  by Snud on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:26:18 PM PDT

  •  Focus was great.

    Prog rock with a Danish twist.

    by doinaheckuvanutjob on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:36:03 PM PDT

  •  God, Focus sucked so hard

    I can't believe someone liked this shiiite. They used to play on that show In Concert when I was a kid. Endless yodeling and bad, baaaaaad, prog rock. Worse than ELP (that's how bad it was). There's no accounting for taste. To each his own. But since you offered your opinion, I'm offering mine. I'm actually shuddering at the thought of the memory of this stuff . . . LOL . . .

    by Mindtrain on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:38:29 PM PDT

    •  "Hocus Pocus" was a parody

      Of hard rock BS at the time... like "Frankenstein" by Edgar Winter. Which is precisely why it got airplay... It was an intentional joke but most morans didn't get it.

      Because it was a joke, they never played anything like it ever again on any of their albums.

      Your opinion isn't shared by the musicians I know or the ones at Guitar Player Magazine.

      I'm a fan of prog rock - clearly you aren't, which is cool. I can't stand country music, or really 99  percent of mainstream radio bullshit played in 4/4 time with the usual crap "power chord" progressions.

      LOL...

      by Snud on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:46:40 PM PDT

      •  Yeah, Focus' other stuff sounded like a trip

        through a beautiful fjord with mountain streams and rainbows, jazz rock fusion, great stuff.

        The yodel Hocus Pocus was funny and trippy-- with some trippy chord progressions.

        by doinaheckuvanutjob on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:50:13 PM PDT

      •  Yeah. What he said....

        ... Snud, you rule!

        Akkerman is great...

        by highacidity on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:52:27 PM PDT

  •  Thanks for the lesson in Dutch rock

    I've never given the subject a single thought before, even though my husband is Dutch. But he listens to a lot of trance music and reggae, not Golden Earring.

    by beltane on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:46:01 PM PDT

    •  Roll Away The Dew! Blues for Allah! ;-)

      Killer album! ;-)

      by Snud on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:47:45 PM PDT

•  Deep Cover

  Sounds like there's a mole in the Clinton communications staff...

  by Trips on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:27:27 PM PDT

•  This shows bad judgment and a lack of experience

  She's just not ready to be cool.

  by jkennerl on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:29:33 PM PDT

  •  Not, not ready . . .

    . . .just isn't.

    by dbratl on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:36:13 PM PDT

  •  trying to add some badly needed verve

    to the candidacy of someone who is at bottom a fundamentally uninspiring, boring person.  Trying to deploy some rock music for this purpose.  Kind of pathetic, in a way.  

    by TomY on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 06:06:04 PM PDT

•  A big leap from Celine Dion

  to "the beast inside my paradise". Very odd choice, indeed.

  by beltane on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:34:33 PM PDT

•  "It's My Party" would be more appropriate

  She and Bill think the Democratic Party is their personal fiefdom.

  by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:34:47 PM PDT

  •  "And I'll Cry When I Want To." n/t

    by Dartagnan on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 06:05:09 PM PDT

•  Your right . . .

  totally weird.  And completely creeps me out thinking of Hillary up there with that fake smile.

  Beast inside my paradise is right!

  by dbratl on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:35:25 PM PDT

  •  And the nun thing

    What would NOW-NY say about THAT?

    by beltane on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:47:14 PM PDT

•  Creepy

  The song and video are both creepy. It has a mad scientist sort of feel to it.

  by Erik W on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:37:46 PM PDT

•  Radar Love

  Awesome drum solo.  I woulda picked that one instead.  

  60's are back, hmm Hilary?

  by FuddGate on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:39:44 PM PDT

•  American needs a lobotomy

  to vote for Hillary?

  The man gets lobotomized in the video and she's using THAT as a campaign song?

  That's disgusting.

  by Erik W on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:41:00 PM PDT

•  Well...

  ...at least they didn't choose 'Coin Operated Boy' by the Dresden Dolls. for when Bill comes in.

  by delver rootnose on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:45:47 PM PDT

•  I want to see Obama play Tupac's 'Changes'

  at his victory celebration in November. You know, the part about never seeing a black president and all...

  by 2ajpuu on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:48:34 PM PDT

•  I heard it was a toss up between

  That and this:
  

  by psilocynic on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:52:53 PM PDT

•  She's a witch!

  And we have all been newt-ered.

  </tweety>

  by jmknapp on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:56:19 PM PDT

•  this diary is so funny!

  best laugh of the day.  Thank you, LiberalNC

  by TomY on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 05:59:24 PM PDT

  •  You're welcome

    I just happened to know this song real well because of my "roots".

    by LiberalNC on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 06:06:46 PM PDT

•  Should have used something by Brandy Lee

  Brandy Lee is comin' on strong.

  It's too bad, because Clinton's campaign is almost there. Gotta keep cool, now, gotta take care. Last challenger to pass, here she goes. And the line of challengers moves down real slow.

  And the radio plays that forgotten song. Brandy Lee is comin' on strong. And Chris Matthews sings his theme song. Oh, one more radar lover Clinton staffer gone.

  Somewhere in a lonely hotel room a Clinton staffer is starting to realize that eternal fate has turned its back on him. It's two am.

  They had to go and do something like this. This is the mad house, feels like being cloned. Her beacon's been moved under moon and star, but where are they to go when they've gone too far?

  OK, now I need to get both of those damn songs out of my head!

  by dconrad on Tue Jan 29, 2008 at 06:39:06 PM PDT