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Presidential candidate and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio wants you to know that he’s a very cool dude.
In an interview on CNN’s New Day on Tuesday, in a segment called “Candidate Mixtape,” the mayor discussed his musical taste. While de Blasio admitted that The Clash was his favorite band (fine choice, frankly), he also confessed his love for ska, the much derided music genre that fused with punk in the ’90s.
“I love ska,” the mayor said, in a moment likely to haunt his candidacy, or at least my life, forever.
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Someone please make this a meme.
In the mayor’s defense, he does seem to have genuine respect for the genre. Later in the program, de Blasio mentions the Skatalites, an original and well-regarded ska band that formed in Jamaica in 1964.
The candidate also appears to have struck a real chord with host Alisyn Camerota, who proceeded to admit her own love of ska.
“There’s a whole hidden ska happening inside me,” Camerota admitted.
I’m not sure that I want to see what hidden, internal ska looks like, nor do I want to dig much deeper into de Blasio’s passion for ska.
Twitter wasn’t particularly impressed either.
Alisyn Camerota and Bill DeBlasio talking about punk and ska is the most boring conversation about punk and ska ever
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) May 21, 2019
Me, an idiot: “Bill de Blasio could not be more of a risible oaf.”
Bill, an intellectual: “I love ska.”
— Luke Thompson (@ltthompso) May 21, 2019
I too have a checkered past bill
— Smo (@Smomotion) May 21, 2019
please don’t start to associate ska with bill deblasio. ska is way cooler than that.
— ＧＥＲＧ (@sgoast) May 21, 2019
Next thing you know Bill de Blasio is going to try infiltrating the New Jersey ska scene and we can’t have that https://t.co/NLQ4yfTklk
— ilana kaplan (@lanikaps) May 21, 2019
“Have you ever been close to tragedy, or been close to folks who have?”
Ska lyrics that double as descriptors of his pointless campaign.
https://t.co/R6nPa4jFDQ
— Pierce (@PierceAH66) May 21, 2019
de Blasio’s number one campaign promise: fourth wave of ska
— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) May 21, 2019
Robert Caro’s 917-page opus on Bill de Blasio’s reshaping of the very essence of metropolitan power will just be “I love ska” written over and over and over
The acknowledgement page about Ina will still be heartfelt and moving
— Max Abelson (@maxabelson) May 21, 2019
It’s unclear whether de Blasio’s confession will help or hurt him in the polls, but his polling numbers are already poor. Just 21 percent of New York City Democrats want him to run for president.
Mighty Mighty Bill has a long way to go.
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