Singalong a Hillary

I was reading this post over at the Seattle Metroblog with the strange typo at a Hillary campaign speech and started surfing her site. A bit behind the times I know, but I couldn’t help contemplating Hillary Clinton’s shortlist of songs that she’s put forward to readers of her blog in a poll to pick her official campaign song. The shortlist of 10 at the moment are:

1. Suddenly I See – KT Tunstall
2. Rock this Country – Shania Twain
3. Beautiful Day – U2
4. Get Ready – The Temptations
5. I’m a Believer – Smash Mouth
6. Are you gonna go my way? – Lenny Kravitz
7. Aint no stoppin’ us now – McFadden & Whitehead
8. Every little thing she does is magic – The Police
9. You and I – Celine Dion
10. Simply the Best – Tina Turner

There are some interesting choices. Many project a certain Godliness onto Hillary. Suddenly I See begins ‘Her face is a map of the world’ – no doubt a swipe at Dubya Gump, whose geography skills I quite frankly doubt. Rock this Country is perhaps a country homage to the lone-star state. I know they just about tolerated Ozzy Osbourne urinating on the Alamo a few decades ago, but a female president? The U2 song is obviously a good choice, not so much for its content (I personally can’t stand anything by them after the Zooropa album), but we all know Bono’s pretty much the personification of cleanliness, which afterall is right next to Godliness.

I kind of like the idea of Hillary leading the States into the 21st century with some 60’s Motown, but I doubt that’ll win. Given Bill’s notable slip-ups I can see a problem with using anything involving Temptation. ‘Then I saw her face, now I’m a believer’, is not quite a convincing message. Most of the remaining choices are just a little to feminist for my liking – Tina Turner conjures up images of Dallas-esque shoulder pads, and Celine Dion seems to suggest housewife’s favourite.

So that leaves us with Aint no stopping us now, and Lenny Kravitz. Brilliant. The former suggests world domination, and the latter produced a download-only hit in protest at the invasion of Iraq called “We Want Peace” which could be a sticking point at dinner-party conversations.

So which do you choose? I’m not quite sure, but get yourself a 5-digit US zip-code and you too could pick your favourite at HillaryClinton.com