You could say it’s the perfect song for this. once in a lifetime too harsh.
The legendary David Byrne The Talking Heads frontman wrote a song called “Musk” for Oscar winner Alex Gibney’s new documentary about Elon Musk. and it has a quite different aspect.
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All the lyrics of the upbeat punk-infused track titled “Let Me Sell You a Dream,” written with the film’s composer Daniel Pemberton, are verbatim quotes from the SpaceX founder himself.
“It’s all his own words. No editorials. Straight from the man’s mouth to mine,” Byrne said recently Diversity.
“Now I’m running in human and pretend mode / I’m a cool, normal guy / I just gotta keep going,” Byrne sings. “Let me sell you a dream / Do you think I’m crazy? / I eat a glass sandwich / I eat it every day.”
Another line, sung after a psychedelic bridge, reads: “Multi-planet exploration / I’m a human emulation / I’m a complete simulation.”
Byrne explained the reason for using Musk’s words in the lyrics of the song “Late Night with Seth Meyers”.” Wednesday.
“I didn’t want to make this a personal editorial on my part,” Byrne told Meyers, explaining that he really wanted to “get inside Elon Musk’s head” and examine “what he’s thinking, how he’s feeling, what he thinks of himself.”
“So I thought, ‘Okay, he’s got a lot of really quotable quotes,'” Byrne said.
The musician then began quoting Gibney, his doctor and the internet, eventually realizing: “The lyrics are right here.”
“He puts it out there. ‘I’m eating glass sandwiches, I do this every day.’ I couldn’t make up for it! But he said this,” Byrne said, referencing one of the crazy quotes Musk used for his song.
This isn’t the first time Byrne has used someone’s lyrics to write a song about someone. music release Pitchfork notes. He used the same method in the 2010 movie “Here Lies Love,” where he took statements from Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos.
Variety adds that the song will also be entered into the 2027 Oscars for best original song during the film’s theatrical run. It would be extremely funny if he won because Musk apparently watched Gibney’s documentary about him and doesn’t seem to be much of a fan.
“This is a hit piece that misses and commits the mortal sin of being boring for 4 hours,” Musk said of the film at X in September.
Meyers had an interesting question for Byrne in his interview Wednesday. Meyers wanted to know if Byrne thought Musk would try to “stream” the song.
“You think he’s going to be like, ‘You and I wrote this together’?” Meyers asked.
“If he does that instead of putting his lawyers on me, I’ll accept that,” Byrne said.
“Musk” will be released in theaters in the United States on October 16.