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October 16, 2007 | Author: Joel Falconer | Filed under: Tunebacks

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9 Zeroes is a song about integrity. The lyrics to this song were written by NDK Creative Artist, and I handled the music. NDK took 20 minutes to slap the words together and it took me another 45 minutes to throw in some music, but I think spending 5 minutes over the Tuneback time limit is fair enough since this was a transoceanic endeavor (with NDK in New Zealand and myself in Australia)!

This song was inspired as NDK and I read an article online together about the plight of Jammie Thomas at Ars Technica by Eric Bangeman. The RIAA had demanded $220,000 in damages from a mother who inadvertently shared 24 songs on KaZaA–despite the fact that the industry lost less than $100 because of her actions and the fact that Jammie Thomas could not repay that amount of money in any reasonable stretch of time. Such an amount of course is only intended to attract international attention and part of the intimidation that characterises everything the RIAA are becoming famous for.

And before pen hit paper (or fingers hitting keys, really), the sale of Skype to eBay came up in our discussion about corporate integrity. eBay bought Skype from Zennstrom for $4,000,000,000, even though both sides knew it was overpriced. It struck NDK that 9 Zeroes is a powerful temptation to give up your principles for.

And hence the title, 9 Zeroes, a song about integrity, about saying no to the immoral excesses of American capitalism today.

Click to download 9 Zeroes (MP3).

9 Zeroes
Lyrics by NDK Creative Artist and music by Joel Falconer

Look 9 Zeroes in the face and say “No, no-no, no!”
But that’s not the American Way
That’s not capitalism today
Take the money and run, run, run from the shadows
that will take up residence in your heart
And try to buy your happiness
When you just gave it away, for 9 zeroes
Look 9 Zeroes in the face and say “No, no-no, no!”
Look 9 Zeroes in the face and say “No, no-no, no!”

Pump out the model as fast as fuck
All we gotta do is make a fast buck
Shit man, how come we’re outta luck?

The artists lost the business they created
But they can create it again
Just look to Prince, look to Janis and Radiohead
Look to Korn, well you only gotta listen to know they’re not dead-in-the-head!

Look 9 Zeroes in the face and say “No, no-no, no!”
But that’s not the American Way
That’s not capitalism today
Take the money and run, run, run from the shadows
that will take up residence in your heart
And try to buy your happiness
When you just gave it away, for 9 zeroes
Look 9 Zeroes in the face and say “No, no-no, no!”
Look 9 Zeroes in the face and say “No, no-no, no!”

They’re not going to Creative Gitmo
They just getting on with the business
Doing business on their own terms
So what do we learn?

Look 9 Zeroes in the face and say “No, no-no, no!”
But that’s not the American Way
That’s not capitalism today
Take the money and run, run, run from the shadows
that will take up residence in your heart
And try to buy your happiness
When you just gave it away, for 9 zeroes
Look 9 Zeroes in the face and say “No, no-no, no!”
Look 9 Zeroes in the face and say “No, no-no, no! No, no-no, no! No, no-no, no! No, no-no, no! No, no-no, no!

….Okay, make it ten and we’ll talk.

Click to download 9 Zeroes (MP3).

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I’m sorry, Joel, I should have taken a few minutes more on the lyric. Next time I’ll do better, I promise. ;-) (He hates it when he has too much time on his hands!) (chuckle)

NDK wrote on October 16, 2007 - 3:55 pm | Visit Link

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