Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen (English Subtitles)
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WHAT IS SUNSCREEN?
Wear Sunscreen or the
Sunscreen Speech are the common names of an essay actually called "
Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" written by
Mary Schmich and published in the
Chicago Tribune as a column in
1997.
The most popular and well-known form of the essay is the successful music single released in
1999, credited to
Baz Luhrmann.
Mary Schmich's "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" was published in the Chicago Tribune as a column on June 1, 1997. In her introduction to the column, she described it as the commencement address she would give if she were asked to give one.
The column soon became the subject of an urban legend, in which it was alleged to be an
MIT commencement speech given by author
Kurt Vonnegut in that same year (in truth, MIT's commencement speaker that year was
Kofi Annan).
Despite a follow-up article by Mary Schmich on August 3, 1997, in which she referred to the "lawless swamp of cyberspace" that had made her and Kurt Vonnegut "one", by 1999 the falsely attributed story was widespread.
When the column was later turned into a song, Schmich's "wish" came true when the
University of Zagreb's
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing started to play the song
Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) at every graduation ceremony.
The poem-like piece has drawn frequent comparison to the
Max Ehrmann poem
Desiderata, which was also the subject of an urban legend misattribution.
The essay was used in its entirety by
Australian film director Baz Luhrmann on his
1998 album Something for Everybody, as "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)." The song sampled Luhrmann's remixed version of the song "Everybody's Free (To
Feel Good)" by
Rozalla. The song was subsequently released as a single (with the opening words changed to "
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99").
Luhrmann explains that
Anton Monsted,
Josh Abrahams and he were working on the remix when Monsted received an email with the supposed
Vonnegut speech. They decided to use it but were doubtful of getting through to Vonnegut for permission before their deadline, which was only one or two days away. While searching the internet for contact information they came upon the "Sunscreen
Controversy" and discovered that Schmich was the actual author. They emailed her and, with her permission, recorded the song the next day.
The song features a spoken-word track set over a mellow backing track. The "Wear Sunscreen" speech is narrated by
Australian voice actor
Lee Perry. The backing is the choral version of "Everybody's Free (To Feel Good)", a
1991 song by Rozalla, used in the film
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. The chorus, also from "Everybody's Free", is sung by
Quindon Tarver.
The song was a worldwide hit, reaching number 45 on the
Billboard Hot 100 in the
United States, and number one in the
United Kingdom and Ireland, partly due to a media campaign by
Radio 1 DJ
Chris Moyles. It was a part of the end credits in
John Swanbeck's film
The Big Kahuna, starring
Kevin Spacey,
Danny DeVito and
Peter Facinelli.
The video which uses the 1999 single edit of the song was directed and animated by
Bill Barminski. The video aired on all major networks in the United States and was featured on the
The Tonight Show,
The Today Show and
The View as well as
VH1 and
MTV.
Here is the "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)"
Official Video from the album Something for Everybody.
For more information visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen
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I'd also like to recommend all of you to watch this beautiful music video from '
Nina Simone' that is based on the idea that the seven mortal sins (
Pride,
Greed,
Sloth,
Gluttony,
Envy,
Lust and
Wrath) destroy a life of grace in human soul:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hcEiEyylEA
Finally, an amazing video that shows our place in the universe.
Anyone who understands what this video represents, is forever changed by it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ
Cheers,