Really funny, and so true.
Little Ladies, Big SUVs
A song about reckless Westport drivers resonates with Car Talk
listeners, and hits iTunes this week
http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/gbase/News/content.html?oid=oid:146715
On the website for Car Talk, that enthusiastic, laugh-heavy NPR call-in
radio show about highly obscure car problems, is a section called
³College of Automusicology.² This is where listeners can search for the
car-related songs they hear on each weekıs show, and where musicians
can submit their songs for consideration. Thatıs what Westport-based
songwriting and life partners Rozanne Gates and Suzanne Sheridan did
back in July, with a song theyıd recorded in Nashville, Tenn., four
years ago, called ³90 Pound Suburban Housewife Drivinı in Her SUV,²
never expecting much of a response. Instead, they got a deluge.
On Jan. 14, with no forewarning, their catchy, country song based on
the tiny, reckless, female drivers they witnessed in their hometown was
featured on Car Talk and immediately resonated with the nationwide
audience. When they first penned it back in 2002, Gates says she
imagined the tune would be irrelevant in a few years. She was sure that
drivers would come to their senses and that the SUV fad would disappear
as quickly as it came. "But not only did it not go away," Gates says,
"it got bigger."
The chorus of the song, sung in a cheerful twang over upbeat strumming
goes: "She's [pause] a [pause] 90-pound suburban housewife, drivin' in
her SUV / Talkin' on her cell phone, oblivious to you or me / Kids in
the backseat, watchin' the little TV / She's a 90-pound suburban
housewife drivin' in her SUV."
Word and music sample here:
http://www.90poundsuv.com/
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