Julian Assange covers John Farnham's 'You're The Voice' in new parody video
First a fledgling rap career, now Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has travelled back in time to the ’80s to promote his Australian political party with a parody song.
In the oddest musical foray of a controversial figure since Richard Dawkins presented a psychedelic thesis on memes, Assange apparently teamed up with a professional vocalist and mimed the words to ‘You’re The Voice’ from within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The clip, recorded for Juice Rap News, harks back to the (vastly superior) 1986 cut of the same name, by be-mulleted Aussie John Farnham.
The YouTube spot, in aid of Assange’s “incorruptible and ideologically united” political party, is perhaps designed to whip up support in the face of an outflow of volunteers and a surge from the country’s other transparency activists, the Pirate Party.
Queensland-born activist and agitator Assange has been residing in diplomatic limbo at the Embassy since 19 June 2012. He is yet to answer an international arrest warrant for suspicion of sexual assault, issued by the Stockholm Criminal Courts in 2010.
Watch the video below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9oUJbG7TXY
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