Didn’t You Ask for Kids? is a political satirical piece about the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump, all based on the misunderstanding arising from the fact that the word “kids” means both children and young goats.
The piece starts with a weird phone call in which Epstein is informed that the “kids” ordered are about to be delivered to his island,
“just in time for the party with my friend Donald”
but when the “kids” arrive, Epstein is very disappointed, while Trump will still able to find a silver lining.
This piece was created for the Biannual Sonic Dash: you have until Sunday to come up with a two-minute audio addressing the prompt emailed to you on Friday. The catch is that you cannot use any pre-existing material, so you have to compose the music and make up the sound effects (if you use any). The prompt for this latest round was “those meddling kids,” the Scooby-Doo catchphrase.
I was lucky to have a small, dedicated team: Roman Lillian Uras-Garvin, with an inspired, digitally enhanced rendition of Jeffrey Epstein, and Romeo Maria Minutolo, with a mean, very mean parody of Donald Trump (as well as some inspired trumpet tunes). Together, we brainstormed, wrote, and produced our piece.
I’d like to share a bit about our process.
We agreed that we wanted something original (so we immediately put aside anything related to Scooby-Doo), humorous but also poignant, ideally making a comment on something important.
I think our Didn’t you ask for kids? hit the mark. This time, we didn’t make it to the 10 finalists, but we love it as it is: completely self-produced (keep an ear out for the sound effects created with doorbells, an air fryer, and a hair dryer), absolutely current in its content, definitely original (verging on the absurd), and we find it unquestionably humorous.
I hope you enjoy listening as much as we loved creating it!