[Video] Rock Plaza Central – “(Don’t You Believe the Words of) Handsome Men”

Rock Plaza Central have put together, with the help of Josh Lyon of Akaflk and Lenny Epstein of Epstein Creative, a new video for their epic song ‘(Don’t You Believe The Words Of) Handsome Men’. The song is “sung” by some of Canada’s top politicians, including Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Elizabeth May and Gillles Duceppe, as well as many others from south of the border, like George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and even just rich old farts like Donald Trump and Bill Gates.

The concept, from band leader Chris Eaton, hopes to convey a growing dissatisfaction with the current state of governmental politics. “Somehow,” Chris Eaton explains, “the job of politicians has gone from serving their countries to just trying to win elections, and from leading by example to belittling the opposition so much that they are elected by being the lesser evil.”

“Many of the lyrics in song emerge from the story of William Faulkner’s Light in August,” Eaton continues about the song’s meaning. “And you can hear that in the parts about the young woman who is convinced by a young man that he loves her, and when she becomes pregnant, he skips town. But all story is metaphor, and I like to have multiple meanings in my songs, so there’s also a strong comment for me about the music industry, and how as soon as people start finding out who you are, all of these slick business guys start calling and telling you what you should do, and also how most of today’s politicians will just tell you what the polls have told them you want to hear, and then you’re ultimately let down. It makes me kind of sick to my stomach. And basically, I think we can do better as humans.”