The Perfect Cut (White Rabbit and a Dog Named Gidget) - Negativland

Oh my gosh, what a coincidence!

(Oh my gosh, what a coincidence!)

This happens to be in style

(This happens to be in style)

Well, the most important things in my life are succeeding and making my goals,

and my goals are, um, I’d like to get a swimming scholarship to a college,

and I’d like to, um, I’d like to become a lawyer when I grow up, you know.

And I’d like to go to, um, college, probably at UCLA, because I hear they have

nice weather, good-looking guys there.

Oh, what a party place.

And, you know,

it’s not too bad of a school either.

And, um, let’s see?

I’d like to have,

in high school, you know, I’d like to make a lot of friends, have a nice time

with them, and I’d like to get a few boyfriends, and have a nice time with them,

and um, let’s see, what else?

Uh, I’d like to go to a lot of parties,

have a good time, and I wanna, when I grow up, um, I wanna get a white Rabbit

convertible and live in a nice place and have a dog named Gidget who would

never leave me.

And, um, I’d like to work in a nice building out in town with a

bunch of good-looking guys working in there, ha ha, we’re gonna have a nice

time and, you know, take my friends out to lunch, and buy my parents nice

things, and be a happy person.

And the most important thing in my life is to go

to heaven when I die

(I think that’s it)

That was exciting because it was so foreign to the adults

(allowed to be on the air this long?)

Oh, I mean, they were so turned off to that music, including myself

(Now they said before, give 'em another brand and they’d be)

We’ve been listening to you and you’ve been telling us you have identity

problems

(Give 'em credit for having that much sense)

When I first played it, I said, is this for real?

(Dead music)

Is this for real?

(The footage back from)

You told us that your competitor’s jingles sound like yours

You’ve been telling us that you need to increase flow out of stop sets

The jingle shouldn’t hang up the flow at the most crucial time

The time when you need to get from the commercial break back into music

You’ve been telling us that you need a new way of handling promo lines

One of the guys who was on before me says, Casey, he says, you know,

nobody’s going to listen to you.

What’s happening is this new music, that,

maybe I should listen more closely?

And I did, and I learned to dance to it,

and then it was over, I was, I was sucked in

Mark, what do you listen to?

(Stupid, stupid!)