It would be like George W. Bush giving a series of speeches about why he wanted to go to war with Iraq, accompanied by foreign-policy songs by Bruce Springsteen.
As long as these ethnic tribal groups paid tribute to the Song court and agreed to follow the course of its foreign policy, the Song agreed to grant military protection and allow the tribal leaders hereditary, autonomous local rule.
You know, Jeff has all these amazing stringent policies on songs and what words sing good, and what you can't sing, how everything must adhere to the note, the chorus must start this interval higher than the verse, all these things.
The speech was about Tory housing policy, and the song was about Mr Heath.
Spotify is prepared to let artists including Adele and Coldplay make their music available to premium subscribers only, in a relaxation of its policy that every song should be available free to listeners, according to industry sources.
After they split, their successor group, the Great Leap Forward, became one of the few indie bands to address the problems of the common agricultural policy with the song If the CAP Fits, Wear It.
If foreign policy was a song, said Toby T. Gati, the Russia specialist who was the State Department's intelligence chief in the Clinton administration, Mr. Bush's actions brought to mind the Paul Simon refrain, "Fifty ways to leave your lover".
The Canadian folk-pop singer Jane Siberry has an even more clever system: she has a "pay what you can" policy with her downloadable songs, so fans can download them free — but her site also shows the average price her customers have paid for each track.
Sheeran played a short set and answered questions from fans at Amazon's London office earlier today, and fielded a question about his views on digital music, and his policy of making his songs available to stream as soon as they go on sale.
They note that "we are instructed by movies, pop songs, state policy, and sociology to get married because 'love is all you need.' But actually we humans need more".
