When you’re browsing social media, it’s inevitable that you’ll eventually come across clips that try to make that orange-haired and, unfortunately, dangerous lunatic from America look ridiculous. Most of them are AI-generated and generally not worth mentioning. I recently came across one such clip and would have long since forgotten it if it hadn’t been set to a song I’ve liked since I was young.
It was recorded 60 years ago by Jerry Samuels, an American singer-songwriter performing under the pseudonym Napoleon XIV. In the song, he narrates in the first person how he is slowly losing his mind because his love has left him, and how he is looking forward to being admitted to a psychiatric hospital. To top it all off, he reveals at the end that it wasn’t a woman but his dog. As if that weren't crazy enough, he had the same song pressed on the B-side of his single, but it plays completely backward.
That same year, Bryna Raeburn, an American radio actress, released a response as Josephine XIV.
I know it's total nonsense, but the mix of a thumping snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, and siren still works and rightly became a one-hit wonder.
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