{"product_id":"something-for-everybody-baz-luhrmann","title":"Something For Everybody: Baz Luhrmann","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmazon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne 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 Chicago Tribune 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 Strictly Ballroom and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) 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 Waltz Darling). Though he throws in a handful of time-tested songs (Doris Day's \"Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps,\" La Bohème's \"Che Gelide Manina\"), Something for Everybody is very much of a specific moment--and though the moment may pass, fans will enjoy revisiting it time and again. --Randy Silver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProduct Description\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExcellent Condition, ISBN13: B00000634X ISBN10: B00000634X Material Type: audioCD\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CheapBookDepot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46109189406883,"sku":"B10.28.12 F_04-16-25_UBD_H0000AWE","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0607\/9227\/5107\/files\/81MADC1YpRL.jpg?v=1754567375","url":"https:\/\/usedbookdepot.com\/products\/something-for-everybody-baz-luhrmann","provider":"Used Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}