{"id":2203,"date":"2009-05-11T11:40:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T18:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2009-09-07T21:01:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T04:01:22","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-brilliant-jr-high-performance-of-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-brilliant-jr-high-performance-of-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; BRILLIANT Jr. High Performance of &#8220;September&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4gqI70w2WF8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2207\" title=\"sept-jr-high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sept-jr-high.png\" alt=\"sept-jr-high\" width=\"427\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sept-jr-high.png 427w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sept-jr-high-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The competition for my favorite version of September, which I co-wrote for Earth Wind &amp; Fire, not to mention the dozens of other songs of mine whose copyrights are infringed upon daily on YouTube, is fierce. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4gqI70w2WF8\">this junior high school performance<\/a> rises to the top &#8211; &nbsp;the choreography, harmonies, costumes, cheap and glorious sound and grand finale swirling together to make the perfect Kitsch kocktail. Anyone who knows me knows I&#8217;ve seen very few of the original artists who&#8217;ve recorded my songs in concert yet I&#8217;ll drive hundreds of miles to hear someone doing them in some unrecognizable lifeform way. I only wish I could have been at this school for this performance!<\/p>\n<p>A personal shoutout to YouTube who, despite making me take down videos of my own songs which I co-own the copyright to, allows proliferation of hundreds of versions of these songs without demanding those infringers take their videos down &#8211; i.e. they protect the record companies and big corps and screw the creators. Although this double standard shows a distinct lack of ethical or moral conscience, were YouTube not turning a blind eye to satisfy their business model I wouldn&#8217;t have the pleasure of experiencing my songs as I love to hear them most &#8211; destroyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The competition for my favorite version of September, which I co-wrote for Earth Wind &amp; Fire, not to mention the dozens of other songs of mine whose copyrights are infringed upon daily on YouTube, is fierce. But this junior high school performance rises to the top &#8211; &nbsp;the choreography, harmonies, costumes, cheap and glorious sound &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-brilliant-jr-high-performance-of-september\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,283,111,87,193,13,113,75],"tags":[61,3232,3245,285],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-art","category-dance","category-earth-wind-fire","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-music","category-september","category-songwriting","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-september-earth-wind-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}