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Country Singer Can’t Wait for Next War to Start E-mail
Written by S.D.Malone   

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Too sweet for words.
Nashville- Country music sensation Billy Lee Walters whose recent hit “The Iraqi-Daqi Shuffle” has polluted country music radio stations, CMT, and karaoke nights in bars across the nation’s heartland during the ongoing and divisive military engagement formerly known as Operation Iraqi Freedom, is reportedly keeping his fingers crossed that America’s brash and hair-triggered leadership will thrust the country into another war so he can get an additional “fifteen minutes” as country music’s patriotic dandy.

Walters was born Michael Bloomenthal and grew up in Brooklyn, but after failing in the rock/pop industry (Where his names included Iggy Rhodes and “Musikal”) he decided to try his hand at the country music biz, it being the least difficult to infiltrate and thrive in.

His country debut, “Your Bosnian Heart” met with mixed reactions, topping out at 167 on the Country Music Charts, but also gave Walters the insight he needed to construct a formula for success in the backwards world of country music--tug at the American flag, make fun of cultures different from our own, and be sure to mention beer drinking and/or dancing.

Walters followed “Your Bosnian Heart” with “Not On My Watch,” a song about illegal aliens entering the United States, but it wasn’t until “The Iraqi-Daqi Shuffle” that he received the fame and wealth that he had been seeking since his days as an Italian ice vendor in Brooklyn.

Now, with no current “full-scale” war going on, Walters is struggling to come up with a decent song; one that will fill his pockets while fueling the hate and prejudice of country music lovers all over America.

In an exclusive interview with Treebune.com, Walters talked about his current slump and fervent hope that the United States will soon be thrust into an all-out war. “I don’t know, it seems like there’s just not enough going on right now to merit a song. All I can do is work on songs about conflicts that I think may happen so that if and when they do, I’ll be ready. Take for example, ‘Me No Rikey Fighty.’ It’s a great song, but if we don’t go to war with China, it aint gonna do me no good. Same goes for ‘France is Gay’ and ‘We Speak English Here.’ Unless we get into wars with France and Australia, the songs will just lie dormant. I’ve tried to instigate wars with those countries, but I guess the President can tell when letters aren’t written by actual heads of state. The one I’ve really got my eye on is Iran though…you know that crazy bastard over there’s gonna do somethin’ to get our dander up. Right now, I’ve only a got a couple a cursory ideas going like, ‘The Shiite’s Hit the Fan,’ and ‘Iran, You Better Run,’ but I’m sure that once things really start to escalate, the songs will write themselves.”

 
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