Ubiquitous P

[Charles Albert]

*Jerry Casale and Mark
Mothersbaugh<http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Mothersbaugh/e/B000APL9K0>formed
Devo when they were students at Kent State University. Jerry told us
how this song came together:
"Whip It, like many Devo songs, had a long gestation, a long process. The
lyrics were written by me as an imitation of Thomas Pynchon's parodies in
his book Gravity's
Rainbow<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140188592/songfactsco09-20>.
He had parodied limericks and poems of kind of all-American, obsessive,
cult of personality ideas like Horatio Alger and 'You're #1, there's nobody
else like you' kind of poems that were very funny and very clever. I
thought, 'I'd like to do one like Thomas Pynchon,' so I wrote down 'Whip
It' one night.*

Whip It by Devo Songfacts <http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=722>

Love,
cfa
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20120529/6f9a3e06/attachment.html>