In honor of the impending Valentine’s Day holiday Reviewsic has been posting a series of songs inspired by all things lovely for your romantic listening. However…what happens when those things intended as lovely turn out to be border-line-psychotically awful? You get the late night voicemail remixes found on the Wifebeater project. Created by artist Rosylyn Rhee after a bad incident of “guy who can’t take no for an answer” Rhee decided to deal with the weirdness of this particular gents voicemail assault by remixing and creating songs with the sound clips. With a little help from some contributors, Rhee has posted the series of songs on her website, Realblonde.com
“As women, we try to give guys the benefit of the doubt (OK, he’s insulting the way I dress and telling me I should wear high heels and makeup…uh, maybe this is his idea of being helpful?), while we also try to communicate our feelings. Apparently, letting a guy know how you honestly feel is not always the best policy.
So, the story: Back in the day I used to book casting rooms for an independent film company and would work with a lot of indie filmmakers. One of the directors emailed me asking me out to dinner. I email back “OK. As long as you know up front this is not a date, but purely professional.” ”Of course,” he writes, “I am so there too.”
During dinner he proceeds to get really drunk and a little belligerent. Afterwards, we go for a walk and he says “We should date! Why don’t we date?!” ”Sure,” I say, “As long as you know I would date other guys, you know, nothing exclusive or anything.”
He flips out. His eyes glaze over and he says over and over: “I can’t believe you just said that.” I finally heed the red flags (why does it always take so long?), run to my car completely freaked out, and drive home. Later that night, he leaves these voicemails.” (Rosylyn Rhee, Realblonde.com)
Here’s one example of the bad date turned song, done by DMT (Department of Mental Technology)
Be sure to visit Realblonde.com to check out the other tunes, done by Roman Kovalik, Ransom Riggs, Shawn Feeney, and Joshua Baek
