Day Two!

Day two started out serendipitously. What we mean is that while we were planning on looking for protest song sources out and about in the city of Boston, we ended up finding them literally right outside the hotel! Two men were standing on the corner of Sidney Street wearing sandwich boards. In big, bold letters they stated their cause: Complete Property Services DOES NOT CONFORM TO COMMUNITY STANDARDS. Here was the moment and opportunity of the serendipity.

We were planning on going to the Old State House to look at the exhibit on the Boston Massacre, to immerse ourselves in the event, the passions, and the poetry and music that came out of that. But here was history right in front of us. What if, instead, we were to totally empathize and understand what these guys out front thought was worthy of protesting? With the knowledge about the essence of protest music, a new understanding of lyrics and metaphors, and a new insight on a protest-worthy cause, we thought we could pull off writing an original protest song.

Listen to snippets of the interview with Mark and Joe here: (to be uploaded)

But a little more inspiration couldn’t hurt, right?

Which is where Mimi suggested the group could trek over to the Boston Museum of Science to see the new exhibit, “A Chorus of Color,” an exhibit of frogs from around the world. What do frogs have to do with our song? Think metaphorically. The frogs, helplessly trapped in an exhibit behind glass walls...the workers, trapped in joblessness behind the seemingly inpenetrable yet transparent walls of globalism?