Steve Jobs Immortalized by Song a Day Artist

Lonnie Lazar ()

Jonathan Mann once wrote a tune about Paul Krugman that went wildly viral and landed him on the Rachel Maddow Show. Now he’s written one about Steve Jobs and it remains to be seen where this one might take him, but it’s at least a pretty good song by our reckoning: “he’s the best at what he does though I hardly can define/what it is and what he has and that kinda blows my mind.”

Mann is a busy, creative guy who’s led a very interesting and adventurous life so far, which you can hear more about on his YouTube site. He has been writing a song and making a video a day since January 1, 2009 and while he admits he wants to be a star, he also cops to simply “trying to make my way through life.”

In addition to Steve Jobs’ Head (song #541), he recently posted song number #543, Let’s Get Along, which he shot and edited on his new iPhone 4. A dedicated Apple fan, Mann also uses a Mac Pro and a Macbook Pro to record his material.

How come no one ever uses Windows gear to write songs about Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates?

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Lonnie Lazar

Lonnie Lazar is a writer-musician-web designer-attorney. He writes about Apple for Cult of Mac and Mac|Life, and about VoIP and telecommunications for Voxilla. Follow Lonnie on Twitter @LonnieLazar, join the Cult of Mac on Facebook, and find Lonnie's photos on Flickr.

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  • Ismail Karim

    [quoting] “How come no one ever uses Windows gear to write songs about Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates?”

    hahaha good one.

  • tentostoys

    I don’t know, you could probably have made this song using songsmith on a pc.

    http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/songsmith/

  • http://twitter.com/vanmacguy Vanmacguy

    “How come no one ever uses Windows gear to write songs about Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates?”

    There’s no passion in that platform. None at all.

    It’s a platform primarily for getting work done, and as such people use it to get stuff done that they have to get done.

    That was my primary reason for switching all those years ago. I was envious of the Linux geeks that thought Linus was a god and that had Linux stickers on their car and on their monitors.

    Linux wasn’t for me, and the passion and community that exists in the Apple world is exactly what I wanted/needed to be a part of.

    My two cents for what it’s worth.

  • http://cultofmac.com Lonnie Lazar

    @tentostoys “could probably,” yes, but no one does. I think Vanmacguy hits it pretty close to the mark but the interesting thing is that plenty of people use Apple gear and Mac software “to get stuff done,” too.

    and yet there is still this huge community of passionate, creative people out there using Macs almost exclusively to bring art and music and movies into the world.

    just an observation.

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