{"id":1374,"date":"2007-10-12T15:35:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T15:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/10\/video-interlude-socalleds-you.html"},"modified":"2007-10-12T15:35:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T15:35:01","slug":"video-interlude-socalleds-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/10\/video-interlude-socalleds-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Video Interlude: SoCalled&#8217;s &#8220;You Are Never Alone&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s as riveting as it is deeply weird. It borrows musically and thematically from just about everywhere&#8211;from cowboys to klezmer to 80s Peter Gabriel videos. It&#8217;s been viewed over 754,000 times since it debuted this past weekend. It&#8217;s been &#8220;favorited&#8221; by YouTube viewers over 4200 times. Ladies and Gentlemen, the work of a true original: SoCalled, with &#8220;You Are Never Alone.&#8221;<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8tS4OWiozmw\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8tS4OWiozmw\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><!--more-->A recent press release from his record company, <a href=\"http:\/\/JDubRecords.org\" target=\"_new\">JDubRecords<\/a>, described SoCalled (or, as his parents so called him, Josh Dolgin) as a &#8220;musician, producer, MC, writer, photographer, claymation animator, and magician.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He lives in Montreal on a street booming with Italian cafes, Hassidic butchers, African fripperies, Polish delis, Brazilian coffee shops, and bakeries that sell hot bagels 24 hours a day.  When he steps out of his apartment (crammed with over 4,000 pieces of vinyl) he overhears French, English, Spanish, Yiddish, Greek, and Haitian.  And that&#8217;s the beauty of his art-SoCalled talks to people-he shares, he listens, and he&#8217;s into people being different.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly.If you&#8217;re intrigued, you should also check out this video for &#8220;These Are the Good Old Days,&#8221; a song that opens with the line, &#8220;My God&#8217;s going to kick your God&#8217;s ass\/You&#8217;re too dumb I&#8217;m the head of the class.&#8221;<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lLK_kkL2yjY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lLK_kkL2yjY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s as riveting as it is deeply weird. It borrows musically and thematically from just about everywhere&#8211;from cowboys to klezmer to 80s Peter Gabriel videos. 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