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Joe Scarborough—the former Republican congressman, current MSNBC contributor, and ever-aspiring Rock Dude—did not listen to us when we asked him to calmly step away from the guitar. Return, Dan Ozzi implored him, to suburbia; feel the warm glow of the Midtown morning studio lights. Scarborough did not. So we sent Eve Peyser to speak with him, to hear his Rock Music Jams. She became convinced that Scarborough’s band was “maybe kind of sick.”And now we are here, in November, with a chill in the air, thinking about this: Joe Scarborough is releasing a Christmas EP called "A Very Drumpf Christmas." Maxwell Tani of Business Insider was given an advance copy of the three-track release. Here are his thoughts:
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No, please, go on:The EP includes three songs, complete with sleigh-bell jingles, lyrics about reindeer, and a track titled "The Drumpf," a jazzy, ballad-tempo cut seemingly indebted to "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch."
Right, but the problem with tha-"Oh you can save our Christmas from going kerplumf, from that orange creep that children call the Drumpf?" the band sings on "The Drumpf," which also references former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci.
I suppose the point here is that we have all sinned, and there is no better time than Christmas to reckon with that. I look forward to blasting Joe Scarborough’s “The Drumpf” at every holiday party this year, and then remaining on some cosmic naughty list forever.Follow Alex Robert Ross on Twitter.The release is the latest in Scarborough's pledge to put out an EP every month for over a year.