Seven years ago, Fleece's Matt Rogers and Ethan Soil (lovingly dubbed "red shirt guy" by YouTube comments noting his "golden retriever energy") taught us how to write an Alt-J song in a viral parody video that remains frequently cited as the sole force keeping many from descending into total misandry.
In the latest episode of Ten Minute Topline, Montreal musician/comedian Eve Parker Finley's new CBC Music show, Rogers returns (sans rice cakes, unfortunately) to flex the songwriting chops that took the internet by storm back in 2015. The premise of the series is challenging singer-songwriters to come up with a song in just 10 minutes, with their only prompts being a randomly assigned genre and topic.
As the CanCon confluence — CanConfluence, if you will — would have it, Rogers selected "universal healthcare" as the theme of his ditty. The musician pulled "electroclash" out of the genre bowl, and he immediately admitted that he didn't know what that was. It certainly sounds made up. He bravely ventured forth regardless, channelling Lady Gaga and building around the sultry delivery of a key rhyme: "Universal healthcare / Take it away from me, don't you dare."
Honestly? It's a banger.
Watch the video below.
In the latest episode of Ten Minute Topline, Montreal musician/comedian Eve Parker Finley's new CBC Music show, Rogers returns (sans rice cakes, unfortunately) to flex the songwriting chops that took the internet by storm back in 2015. The premise of the series is challenging singer-songwriters to come up with a song in just 10 minutes, with their only prompts being a randomly assigned genre and topic.
As the CanCon confluence — CanConfluence, if you will — would have it, Rogers selected "universal healthcare" as the theme of his ditty. The musician pulled "electroclash" out of the genre bowl, and he immediately admitted that he didn't know what that was. It certainly sounds made up. He bravely ventured forth regardless, channelling Lady Gaga and building around the sultry delivery of a key rhyme: "Universal healthcare / Take it away from me, don't you dare."
Honestly? It's a banger.
Watch the video below.
