{"id":1149,"date":"2005-06-23T09:27:11","date_gmt":"2005-06-23T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2005\/06\/hey_mambo_mambo_guantanamo\/"},"modified":"2005-06-23T09:27:11","modified_gmt":"2005-06-23T16:27:11","slug":"hey_mambo_mambo_guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2005\/06\/hey_mambo_mambo_guantanamo.html","title":{"rendered":"HEY MAMBO! MAMBO GUANTANAMO!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Regarding Christina Aguilera’s “Torture”
\nMusic<\/B><\/FONT><\/A>, we have a taker:
\n

<\/P>
\n

LOONY TUNES<\/EM><\/B><\/P>
\n

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,
Or cause cardiopulmonary
\narrest.
It all depends on the listener’s cultural level:
Will certain strains tend to make
\nhim revel
Or will they turn his stomach inside out,
Prepared to spill the secrets he
\nknows about,
And rather than endure another note,
Make him jump in front of a
\ntorpedo boat?
Hitchcock used it in “Foreign Correspondent,”
Playing music-as-torture
\nto torment
A captured government biggie so he’d sing;
Believe the music was Benny
\nGoodman swing?
And in Waco, to drive the Branch Davidians sane
The Feds applied
\nthe ultimate in pain,
Playing endless disks, both fast and slow,
By king of disco Barry
\nManilow.
Yes, music has more uses than one’d suppose —
<\/EM>Witness both
\nLord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose.

<\/EM>— Leon Freilich<\/B><\/FONT><\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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