Oct 152011

Dear Mr. President by Linda Perry & Four Non-Blondes

Editor’s Note: I really love Linda Perry. She’s a musician’s musician! Here are the lyrics to her song, Mr. President; also here are various articles about Linda and Four Non-Blondes. One Hit Wonders, also, SXSW Interviews, also On the Other Side of the Creative Force, also, Linda Perry To Warner Music Group: “What’s Up With The Money You Owe Me?” also, check out this page entitled Musicians for Intelligent People; Linda is featured there. You can find a list of songs written, co-written, and produced by Linda here. Check out all the songs and purchase Bigger Better Faster.

Song Facts Bass player Christa Hillhouse: “George Sr. was president at the time, and we were having a hard time getting airplay in certain places. In Texas, they wouldn’t play it because they looked at it as an assault on the Bush administration. It’s kind of funny because it wasn’t about the president in office, it was about the hierarchy of power and government. It wasn’t specifically pointed at him. I remember being really surprised when it happened. It’s a song about looking around and seeing problems and feeling like there’s someone in charge who is responsible.”

Linda Perry is an Amazing Singer and Celebrity; Check Out Her Song, Mr. President

Thanks to Christa for speaking with us about this song. Christa is a web designer, writer, and is involved with various music and film projects. Her site is here.

Fast Tube by Casper

I’m looking outside of my windows
The view that I see
Is a child and mama
And the child is begging for money
Tell me why, tell me why
The woman is blind is she so broke
The kid’s dealing crime
It’s such a beautiful city
But the world is burning it down

It’s such a beautiful city
But the world is it burning down
I go to my room to turn on the T.V
I sit myself down
And I start laughing hard
‘Cause this man he’s asking for money
He says “if you send me lots of cash I’ll send you
Stuff to make you rich fast”
It’s such a wonderful country
But the man he’s burning it down

It’s such a wonderful country
But the man he’s burning it down
Yea yea yea yea yea yea
Yea yea yea yea yea yea
And it’s burning down
And it’s called the U.S of A.
One day I’m going to have lots of money
But I’ll have to give up
For this rich society
Oh please Mr. President will you lend me a future
‘Cause you’ll just get it back
From the little blind woman
With the kid on the corner
And the people all over, doin’ crack

It’s such a wonderful country
But the man he’s burning it down

And it’s burning down
And it’s called the U.S of A.
I’m walking outside on a sunny day
With no one around
And I wonder what’s wrong
The I hear this loud piercing siren
Oh my God the bomb has just dropped
And everybody climbed right on top
Screaming, what a wonderful country
But the man he’s burning it down

It’s such a wonderful country
But the man he’s burning it down

And it’s burning down
And it’s called the U.S of A

Wikipedia In 2000, Perry was contacted by rock-pop singer P!nk, seeking production and songwriting assistance on her second album. Perry commented on the experience in an interview with HitQuarters: “She was this white girl singing R&B music, and it made absolutely no sense to me why she would call me. So when I got together with her my instinct said, “Don’t go and be an artist again, don’t get another record deal, find out what you can do with her. My manager freaked out when I called her and said, cancel all the showcases!”Perry co-wrote and produced much of Pink’s successful album Missundaztood, which catapulted Perry back into the spotlight as a top producer in the music business. Perry took full writing credits for the songs “Get the Party Started” and “Lonely Girl.”

Linda Perry

After her success with Pink, Perry’s next big project was to provide Christina Aguilera a career makeover with the international hit “Beautiful“.

Since then, she has gone on to work with many artists, including Jewel, Courtney Love, Gwen Stefani, Alicia Keys, Celine Dion, Blaque, Sugababes, Lillix, Robbie Williams, Melissa Etheridge, Sierra Swan, Solange Knowles, Gavin Rossdale, Juliette and the Licks, Lisa Marie Presley, Fischerspooner, Unwritten Law, L.P., Kelly Osbourne, James Blunt, Cheap Trick, Ben Jelen, Enrique Iglesias and Giusy Ferreri.

The 2002 Faith Hill album Cry has a song co-written by Perry and Alecia B. Moore (P!nk).

In 2003, Perry was recognized with two awards by ASCAP (music publishing society) for her songwriting and a Grammy Awards nomination for her song “Beautiful” as a contender for “Song of the Year”; the song received the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2004 Grammy Awards.

With actress Gina Gershon, she wrote the song “StupidStar” for the movie Prey for Rock and Roll.

With Brooklyn rocker L.P., she co-wrote “The Darkside”.

For most of 2004, Perry remained behind the scenes, making another appearance with Camp Freddy, this time at LA’s Live 103′s Birthday Concert. She again belted some Zeppelin and then joined Lisa Marie Presley on stage for a few songs that they wrote together. Also appearing at the show was Juliette Lewis and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day.

The year 2004 also saw the release of Courtney Love’s solo America’s Sweetheart, to which Perry heavily contributed. Although the album was mostly overshadowed by Love’s turbulent antics, Perry was critically appreciated both by the press and by Love.

A song called “Girls & Boys”, which was originally intended for Pink but later recorded by Britney Spears, was released as a bonus track on Spears’ European DVD release. The track marked Perry’s foray into more electroclash-inspired tunes.

She collaborated with art-dance duo Fischerspooner on a few songs for their upcoming release and ended the year with a few co-writing credits on Gwen Stefani’s debut, Love. Angel. Music. Baby., including the album’s first single, “What You Waiting For?” Additionally, her Atlantic-distributed label, Custard Records, was launched to promote two new acts, Sunshine and James Blunt. She produced and played guitar on the recording of Blunt’s song “No Bravery.”

The year ended with Perry co-writing “Save Me” for Southern Cali punkrockers Unwritten Law, which helped build anticipation for the group’s upcoming CD.

Releases for 2005 included Kelly Osbourne’s second album, which was written and produced by Perry. The lead track from Osbourne’s second album, “One Word“, reached the top of the UK and US dance charts. Unfortunately the song plagiarised Visage‘s 1980 hit “Fade To Grey” and Perry was forced to credit the writers of that song and pay them royalties.

Perry contributed widely to Christina Aguilera’s third studio album Back to Basics, released in 2006. Perry was involved more in the production of the second disc of the album, which featured songs like “Candyman“, and “Hurt“. Perry co-wrote every song, with Aguilera, on the disc.

2007 saw Perry working with Vanessa Carlton on her third studio album, Heroes and Thieves. She also co-wrote and did session work on many of the songs on Sierra Swan‘s solo album, Ladyland. A new release from Courtney Love. A fresh collaboration with Hip-Hop chanteuse Kelis, co-writes with Cheap Trick and Ziggy Marley. Production on Ben Jelen’s new album; production on Skin‘s next record. There are also collaborations with The Format on the song “Dead End” from their Dog Problems album and “Darker Side of The Moon” on Bay Area artist Goapele‘s Change It All album, and a couple of songs for the new Enrique Iglesias album.

In 2007 Linda Perry was recognized with an award from the San Francisco chapter of the Recording Academy for her contribution to the world of music. The years 2007 and 2008 saw more tunes written and/or produced by Linda Perry: The Section Quartet, Alicia Keys, Vanessa Carlton, Gina Gershon, and the anticipated release of Courtney Love’s second solo record.

In 2008, Perry signed the group Little Fish to her label and began producing their album, titled Baffled and Beat,^[9] which was released in August 2010.

In 2009 Perry wrote and produced A Loaded Smile, an airy ballad in full falsetto for the debut album For Your Entertainment by Adam Lambert. Christina Aguilera’s fourth studio album, Bionic, released in 2010, included another track, written and produced solely by Linda Perry, titled Lift Me Up.

In 2010 and 2011, Perry, along with Fox Entertainment Group, was the Presenting Sponsor of the Los Angeles talent show STARFEST, benefiting The L.A.C.E.R. Afterschool Programs.

Fast Tube by Casper

In July, Perry started to publish a set of acoustic cover songs that she recorded with her iPhone. So far she has uploaded recordings of the following songs: