BY SARAH HANDYSIDE · MAY 22, 2014
It’s not too hard to find songs about Bitcoin online. Most of them are catchy karaoke-style comedy acts, like Ali Spagnola’s, “Bitcoin Anthem Mashup (33 songs about money in 2 minutes),” in which the artist changes the lyrics of well-known songs to talk about Bitcoin. Youtube artist Zhou Tonged created enough of these to put together a few full-length albums, using as back-up everything from Billy Joel’s “For the Longest Time,” to Eminem’s “Without Me,” to the Chordettes’ “Mr. Sandman.”
But you have to do a lot of sifting to find an original song about Bitcoin. There are a few, and it’s not surprising that most of them fall into the same musical genre, one which has always been on the forefront of social change. That would be folk. Bitcoin folk songs span a range of tones, reminiscent of everyone from Pearl Jam to Jack Johnson, but they are all acoustic-stringed-instrument-playing singer-songwriters with social messages.
About three months ago, Isaac Birchall, self-described “internet famous” alternative acoustic rocker, took to Reddit.com/r/bitcoin to ask for advice on how he could use Bitcoin to further the success of his album “The Sleep Sessions.”
