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April 30th, 2009
Flaming Lips Song Gets Recognized
The Flaming Lips’ song “Do You Realize??” became the official rock song of Oklahoma on April 28 when Governor Brad Henry signed an executive order. But the honour certainly didn’t come easy for the band.
Frontman Wayne Coyne described the journey as “absurd” to Billboard.com. The song won the honour via an Internet contest with over 21,000 votes cast and this was passed by the Oklahoma state senate. But then the state house of representatives rejected the contest results because member Michael Ivins wore a communist-inspired sickle and hammer t-shirt.
“I don’t think we’re battling against what we feel is like a backwards mentality here,” said Coyne. “It’s really just a few religious wackos that think they can tell everybody what to do. It’s not even to me Democrats versus Republicans. It’s really just a couple of these small-minded guys who are the most popular guys in their church and their little small towns. In some ways it’s so absurd, it can only make us look good and them look stupid.”
The entire ordeal ended when Governor Henry vetoed the house’s decision and chose to move ahead and honour the song. The executive order was signed at the Oklahoma History Center in Oklahoma City.
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Posted on Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 12:11 pm by Celine and is filed under News, The New Music.
