Goodbye Blue Monday created by phillyterp927 16 years ago

51. Goodbye Blue Monday

Continuing my trend of naming songs after phrases in books I've read (
"Wanderers On A Prehistoric Earth"
came from Heart Of Darkness,
"I See Everything Twice"
from Catch-22,
"Room 101"
from 1984), here's a song named for a phrase in Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast Of Champions (it's also the book's alternate title). It appears a few times in Vonnegut's book, including one use as an advertising slogan for Robo-Magic laundry machines.

In the book, the Robo-Magic Corporation used "Goodbye Blue Monday" to combine the notions of women traditionally doing laundry by hand on Monday (not true, says the narrator) and people dreading going back to work after the weekend. The machine would do the dreaded job of washing your clothes for you, taking away your reason to hate Mondays.

Of course, there are still plenty of other things you have to worry about. And that was the idea behind this song -- to make something upbeat that was also kind of a downer. You can stop worrying about one thing and enjoy the temporary relief before moving on to the next thing that stresses you out.