Sir, I blush at your approbation. Is 5/4 a usual Cajun rhythm? I had no idea; I would have begun in pentameter. If this is to be a Louisiana-themed campaign I should probably have featured a different vegetable, but "The Day I Heard A Bean Bawl" or "Potato Pule" don't quite have the same ring to them.
I honestly haven't the slightest clue if 5/4 is a histrionical Cajun rhythm, although I would like to hear a Zydeco cover of this Ska cover of an old Jazz song I am led to believe was arranged in 5/4:
I believe it just might work well enough musically for the unenlightened masses to not notice at all. As for the vegetable subject of your lyrics: while legumes do well enough in the Louisiana soil: I do not believe either of the "root vegetables" potato nor carrot fare well agriculturally; hence they are relatively uncommon in the cuisine. Beans, rices, onions, garlics, tomatoes, celeries and various peppers (or capsacium) however (to my knowledge) do quite well.
I think it has something to do with either the moisture content or salinity of the soil, perhaps both.
So stylistically I would avoid common themes in the Campaign Plank Song (not the entire campaign, merely one delicious part of it) for this Vegetable Initiative whatever we end up naming it. In short; the carrot is perfect as would be the potato as both might be considered somewhat luxurious due to their local agricultural requirements.
I think you should
stick with the
carrot, although potato translates into French more ambiguously (I think there are two acceptable translations, one popular and the other more strictly in line with the AF standards.)
As much as I dearly love Louisiana, I hesitate to make the state and/or territory the entire theme of our overall Campaign. I would like to be inclusive to the point of being ubiquitous as far as the multi-votes go. I dare say unanimous on the multi-vote after our last absolute DOMINATION in the polls is not a goal that should be out of the question nor out of line for the overall MAPA ideals.
The above is probably difficult for the average reader to parse, so I shall sum up my Vision on this particular Arm of the Campaign:
Use "Take 5" as a melodic inspiration, perhaps even an outright "cultural misappropriation"* would be allowed?
Translate your wonderful lyrics into French
Zydeco Cajun, with a 5/4, 10/8 or 15/16(!!!) beat/rhythm as required.
Set the bar high with triple- & if possible quadrupal-entendres to really maximize a high capture of the available multi-vote
If we can have something ready for release in the third or fourth quarter of FY2023 on this one, that would be just fine.
We probably want to start to work laying the revisionist histrionical cultural misappropriation ground work on this NLT the first quarter of FY2022, Nautical Shore.
What could possibly go wrong?
Thank you in advance! It is an honor to swerve.
pate/K_Dubb 2024
"WHO shat in the interregnum?"*(Hey, we need a Department of Cultural Misappropriation, and another Plum!)