Ubiquitous P

[David Morris]

Great find!  Devo & TRP, soul mates, sort of...

On Tuesday, May 29, 2012, Charles Albert wrote:

> *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
>
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