ninme

I’m listening to the song played after the speech yesterday. I’ve never heard this song before, I don’t think. The Intro is really good. Listening to it reminds me of being in the marching band. (On a cold day)

Anyway, Peggy Noonan said in that column I went off on last night (which seems to be getting some seriously heavy traffic. ninme drums her fingers on the desk. ah there it is.)

But whoever picked the music for the inaugural ceremony itself–modern megachurch hymns, music that sounds like what they’d use for the quiet middle section of a Pixar animated film–was . . . lame. The downbeat orchestral arrangement that followed the president’s speech was no doubt an attempt to avoid charges that the ceremony had a triumphalist air. But I wound up thinking: This is America. We have a lot of good songs. And we watch inaugurals in part to hear them.

BS. The first few songs, maybe, but they were written by people in government, and friends of his, so appropriate. It’s his inauguration, after all. But the song after his speech was great. Perhaps the end was a bit lugubrious. Could’ve been a bit quicker in the tempo.

Anyway, that’s what the parade is for. The other songs.