{"product_id":"baz-luhrman-presents-something-for-everybody","title":"Baz Luhrman Presents: Something For Everybody","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Various Artists\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Import\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 31-03-1998\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e One of the most surreal singles in memory, \"Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)\" has an even stranger story than you'd imagine: in 1998, a student lifted the text of an article columnist Mary Schmich had written for the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e and started sending it around the world, crediting it as a commencement speech given at MIT by Kurt Vonnegut. Film director Baz Luhrmann (who had taken a big part in designing the soundscapes of his films \u003ci\u003eStrictly Ballroom\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWilliam Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet\u003c\/i\u003e) got his hands on it just as he was working on a remix of Rozalla's 1992 dance hit \"Everybody's Free (To Feel Good).\" Within a day, Luhrmann had hired a local actor to read the text, and a single was born. It's a wonderfully surreal pop-cultural moment on an album that strives for such things. Luhrmann's modus operandi involves the remixing and customizing of tracks until they have a fabulous sheen, and it owes a lot to the equally media-attuned Malcolm McLaren (and especially to McLaren's 1989 album \u003ci\u003eWaltz Darling\u003c\/i\u003e). Though he throws in a handful of time-tested songs (Doris Day's \"Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps,\" \u003ci\u003eLa Bohème\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Che Gelide Manina\"), \u003ci\u003eSomething for Everybody\u003c\/i\u003e is very much of a specific moment--and though the moment may pass, fans will enjoy revisiting it time and again. \u003ci\u003e--Randy Silver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUPC:\u003c\/b\u003e 724385763625\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 0724385763625\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Audio CD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/b\u003e UsedVeryGood\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ID Shop.ca","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960810725410,"sku":"3N-MAW2-X6E3","price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0889\/9428\/3554\/files\/41Mm2UCzIiL.jpg?v=1783638841","url":"https:\/\/kastor.club\/products\/baz-luhrman-presents-something-for-everybody","provider":"Kastor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}