We talked to one of the musicians who actually wrote the Tiger King’s music.
,” a musical “tribute” that alleges Thompson was actually murdered by the deep state in an attempt to discredit private zoo ownership. The video positions Joe as a dogged investigator, slapping a folder down on an interrogation table and lighting up a cigarette, and shows uniformed men in masks leading a blindfolded Thompson look-alike into a clearing and sticking a gun in his mouth.
Joe Exotic didn’t write any of the songs, and he didn’t even sing on most of them, although a few seem to feature his vocals mixed low over Collins’ and Johnson’s recordings. But it’s hard to imagine them being sung—or being pretended to be sung—by anyone else. They’re as specific to his life as Taylor Swift’s musical diary entries are to hers, full of references and name-drops that are inexplicable unless you know the stories behind them.
Though it doesn’t exactly stand on its own, there is one of Joe Exotic’s songs that’s strong enough to survive outside the hothouse environment of his overstuffed life. “” couldn’t be more closely tied to Joe, with its lyrics about being awed by the majesty of big cats, and the video is full of the same goofy first-day-in-iMovie effects.
Barham, who hails from rural North Carolina, says he’s in awe of the show’s “redneckery,” and while some may see Joe as an alien specimen, he’s a familiar figure to people raised working-class. “We all know that guy,” Barham says. “Everybody has one of those guys in their town, the super eccentric guy who will do anything to keep his name in the headlines. Most of them are the mayor. I don’t think every town has a true gem like Joe Exotic, though. A lot of them pale in comparison.
Barham admits he had to do 15 or 20 takes of “I Saw a Tiger” to get one where he made it through the entire song without laughing. But he’s also genuinely admiring of its power. “It’s so big and bombastic. It’s everything I love about cheesy anthem rock,” he says. “It could be an a ’80s Springsteen song if it wasn’t about the tiger holocaust.” Recording the cover was a product of coronavirus stir-craziness, but Barham says he expects to be playing it onstage long after the quarantine has lifted.
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