Thursday, October 9, 2025

Musical Interlude: Out of Touch (1984)

 Ladies & gentlemen, allow me to offer this next item as the unofficial theme song of the Republican party in 2025:


Hall & Oates hit #1 with "Out of Touch", but now, the duo have reached a professional impasse, and will no longer work together, ending a career spanning nearly 50 years.

As for the GOP, "Out of Touch" is appropriate because, well, that's what the Trump administration is in suggesting that one of today's superstars, Bad Bunny, should be replaced as the Super Bowl halftime headliner in February in favor of someone like 80's country star Lee Greenwood, whose last hit was 40 years ago. The Republicans just don't get it. The NFL and its media & advertising partners are looking to attract the youth demographic, and Bad Bunny certainly does that. Unfortunately, House Mis-Speaker Mike Johnson is lost in a time warp with the rest of his party, but at least he's up on some music news, because, trust me, if Hall & Oates had worked out their differences professionally as well as legally, they'd be on Johnson's radar.

Seems to me that the GOP would rather exhume old, defunct acts like the Doodletown Pipers, the Serendipity Singers, and Up With People than acknowledge today's audience......

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