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Pluto Rocks: Canadian Indie Band Records Song to Save Pluto

Edited by Madelyn Miller, the Travellady

Pluto got a bum deal

On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided to demote Pluto to “dwarf planet” status. This news has been met with immediate outrage from scientists, parents, children and former children, and all those who share a non-gravitational affinity for our distant and benevolent neighbor.

Well, if they wanted to screw a planet, they should have picked Uranus.

SubPlot A decided to misdirect their end-of-summer angst into recording a protest song in four days which, if traveling at the speed of sound from a car stereo, will reach Pluto in 411 years.

Make no mistake, “Pluto Rocks” is not “Dark Side of the Moon”. It’s not even “Drops of Jupiter”. But it does let the world know that Pluto is our family, Pluto is our history, and Pluto is a dwarf to nobody (except myopic, pedantic, and misguided pocket-protected astronomers).

SubPlot A urges the IAU to “Grandfather” in Pluto as a planet.

Pluto well-wishers around this planet are invited to visit www.plutorocks.ca  or www.myspace.com/subplotaplutorocks  to hear the song and show their support.

The single is also available on DMDS/Musicrypt.

A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the song will go toward the cause.

Pluto Rocks - Sample Lyrics:

So smart and so smug, so proudly pedantic
Can’t you be a scientist and still a romantic
Don’t you still love him, don’t you still need him
Don’t you want your great great grandkids to meet him

I don’t care what people say, you’ll always be mine
I don’t care what the experts say, you’ll always be my number nine

Pluto rocks, in a vacuous void
Grandfather Pluto, he’s no asteroid

Pluto rocks, stop the attack
Grandfather Pluto, you gotta bring him back

SubPlot A is not so much a traditional band as a group of nomadic solo artists musicians wordsmiths, surgeons, soothsayers, and (yes) scientists, who have joined together to say with quiet desperation and minimal subtext, “Pluto Rocks”.

SubPlot A is Arun Lakra and Friends. Their debut album is forthcoming (barring any further delays such as giraffes being unceremoniously and arbitrarily demoted from the Animal Kingdom).

Madelyn Miller is a travel and food writer who has visited many countries, but has no current plans to visit Pluto.  She also writes for www.chocolateatlas.com, www.cocktailatlas.com, www.teaAtlas.com, www.carladynews.com

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