The Most Perfect Album

September 19, 2018 11:02 PM

We invited some of the best musicians in the world to create songs inspired by each of the 27 amendments; a kind of “Schoolhouse Rock!” for the 21st Century.

I’d venture a guess that most Americans (like us, before we started this project) can’t name more than one or two amendments to the Constitution, let alone remember that there are 27 of them. But these 27 “insertions” to our founding document outline our basic rights as Americans. Not only that, they show a country changing and evolving and re-imagining itself; striving (and not always succeeding) to be better.

posted by Pyrogenesis (3 comments total)

Hey, this is nice. Really listenable so far, something that I didn't take as a given with the nature of the project, but the interpretations range more freely than I first feared they would.
posted by gusottertrout at 12:26 AM on September 20, 2018 [1 favorite]

Definitely recommend the podcast this comes by Jad Abumrad - More Perfect (yes, it is on the website, but worth emphasizing). Third season just started (the theme of which is this album) but the previous two years is worth a listen.
posted by Ylem at 6:38 AM on September 20, 2018

Dolly Parton singing about the 19th amendment? I'm in.
posted by Elly Vortex at 3:31 AM on September 21, 2018