{"id":25054,"date":"2017-04-20T02:35:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T06:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=25054"},"modified":"2017-04-20T02:34:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T06:34:03","slug":"nsfa-the-simpsons-sing-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/20\/nsfa-the-simpsons-sing-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"NSFA: The Simpsons Sing the Blues!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Debuting to the world in April 19th, 1987, thirty years later, The Simpsons has never been afraid to take a look back at their history and mock the absurdity of it all. While the show has been quite excellent in its formative years, back in 1990, the show reached the height of its popularity to where it had oodles of merchandise. There were dolls, shirts, comic books, books, video games, et al. and the show took the opportunity to mock that period back in the \u201cBehind the Laughter\u201d episode. In it the narrator looks at how obscene the merchandising for the show was to the point where the characters went so far as to release birth control and, yes, two cheesy hit novelty albums.<\/p>\n

Hilariously enough in 1990, The Simpsons did release a \u201clegitimate\u201d music album named \u201cThe Simpsons Sing the Blues!\u201d<\/p>\n

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The basic premise of the album is basically the characters singing various covers to classic blues songs. And it\u2019s not as bad as it sounds, if you can appreciate the novelty, and appreciate that Dan Castellaneta and Yeardley Smith have pretty excellent singing voices. \u201cThe Simpsons Sings The Blues\u201d was the hot item back in 1991 and when it was released on tape, my big cousin listened to most of it with my brother and I and we just loved it. Back in the nineties, the big move studios made were releasing a music video for a single, and then releasing the album from the artist shortly after. So naturally when music videos were relevant, FOX unleashed the music video for the Bart Simpson song \u201cDo the Bartman!\u201d<\/p>\n

It was a song that encouraged you to dance like the series\u2019 bad boy, who delighted in pranks, and didn\u2019t mind being a failure in school. Suffice to say that at their height, Bart Simpson and any evidence of the show were banned at schools. I vividly remember a lot of my teachers lecturing my class and me about how bad \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d was for us and that Bart Simpson is not a role model. She even banned him from being drawn by students whenever they doodled in their notebooks. In either case, \u201cDo the Bartman!\u201d is the hit single of the album that is not at all a blues song. But that doesn\u2019t matter because while the single is goofy today, it\u2019s still a fun novelty with Nancy Cartwright committing to a song about Bart Simpson influencing fans to dance like him.<\/p>\n