McDonald’s Mondays: Wesley Willis was not a better musician than you

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Most of you have probably never heard of Wesley Willis. I certainly hadn’t until today. Wesley Willis was an interesting individual — a diagnosed schizophrenic, Wesley became something of an internet sensation rather late in his short life with a string of literally thousands of short but catchy tunes showcasing his completely tone-deaf poetry-and-rhyme vocal skills. I didn’t realize it, but I was already quite familiar with one of his bigger tunes. “Rock and Roll McDonald’s” was featured briefly in the documentary Super Size Me, and ever since hearing it on my first viewing I’ve caught myself humming it from time to time.

Now, thanks to the glory of the interweb, I can share that catchy catchy tune with you. When it came to posting this, I had to choose between posting a live version of Wesley Willis performing it several months before his death or this mostly unwatchable piece of internet-animation. Since the song was what I really wanted to showcase and his live version was a little too mumbly-mouthed, I decided to stick with the animation. My apologies in advance for the low-quality and occasionally strange imagery.

Both the song and the video have a clear anti-McD’s agenda. I figure it’s a good way to balance out the fairness in our McDonald’s Mondays posts, seeing as most of them are just me rambling on about my love of scary clowns with hamburgers.

If you want to know a little more about Wesley Willis (and you should, it’s an interesting story) check out his entry on wikipedia.

McDonald’s Mondays is a weekly series of posts written by our own Jim Squires that initially appears on his pop culture blog fjetsam.com.


2 responses to “McDonald’s Mondays: Wesley Willis was not a better musician than you”

  1. ILMK says:

    “Rock and roll McDonalds!!”

    LOL

    Cute Thx for sharing…. 🙂

  2. Jason says:

    Excellent, Wesley Willis was an amazing (read: very interesting) man… Just a quick correction, though: he was more than just an “internet sensation” – I heard his stuff offline far before any of it came online. Underground sensation would be more apropos. My favourite song of his – Alanis Morissette – has an original video of his on someone MySpace page: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=749947043

    Damned good stuff. Thanks!


















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