This album doesn’t shy away from getting political and it certainly doesn’t start here.
Although this seems to condescend to the way pop-musicians write “political” songs, Mike Watt (writer and bassist) has stated he actually did want Michael Jackson to sing it and sent him a copy.
List monitors arrive with petition
Iron-fisted philosophy...
Is your life worth a painting?
Is this 'girl vs. boy' with different symbols?
Being born is power
Scout leader nazi tagged as 'big sin'
Your risk chains me hostage
Me, I'm fighting with my head, I'm not ambiguous
I must look like a dork
Me, naked with textbook poems
Spout fountain against the Nazis
With weird kinds of sex symbols
In speeches that are big dance thumps
If we heard mortar shells
We'd cuss more in our songs
And cut down on guitar solos
(guitar solo)
So dig this big crux
Organizing the boy scouts for murder is wrong
Ten years beyond the big sweat point
Man, it was still there ever without you
Coming back around, look!
Coming together, for just a second
A peek, a guess
At the wholeness it's way too big
At the wholeness it's way too big
Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing was written by Mike Watt.
Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing was produced by Ethan James.
Minutemen released Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing on Fri Jun 01 1984.
Mike Watt told L.A. Record,
No—I wanted Michael Jackson. If Michael Jackson sang our song, a lot of people would get the message of Minutemen. He had a big audience. A good singer. I sent him a cassette of it—to the management on the record cover. I wrote him a note. ‘This is a political song I thi...