What Happened To Catman Cohen

Indie Musician Catman Cohen Offers Public Apology

The following statement is from indie musician Catman Cohen, with respect to the impending March, '09 release of his third CD....How I Want to Dream: the Catman Chronicles 3:

Catman Cohen in Silhouette"I watch the news in horror and disgust...the ongoing tales describing how one Wall Street scoundrel after another has looted the public Treasury for purposes of maintaining obscenely indulgent lifestyles...the compromised political puppets who have been bribed to accept this dismal status quo...the corrupted regulators who have become nothing more than errand boys for powerful collusive Wall Street interests...the Big Media shills who offer up a continuous stream of propaganda supporting this mess while anesthetizing the public with the same old consumerist entertainment that caters to the lowest common denominator...and I cannot fathom why the public has not taken to the streets and raged in protest."

"But the worst thing is that I am as guilty as anybody. A choice was made to create initial PR for my new CD featuring three of my more 'innocuous' songs...even while this society is crying for songs that protest vociferously against the true culprits who are destroying everything that was once good about this nation...even while this society is screaming for songs that will inspire the change necessary to heal the millions who are hungry...and millions who, lacking health insurance, are in constant pain."

"I am ashamed for this...for living in a society that turns it eyes away from this human misery and embraces everything that is wrong...and worst of all, I am ashamed that I allowed myself to become a whore in any respect for this sad state of affairs...and so I say, 'enough is enough,' we cannot allow these Wall Street criminals to get away with grand larceny any longer."

"I am truly so ashamed in a way that I can only approximate in words....and I ask those who have supported me in the past to forgive my own human flaws. I became a 'shadow musician,' not as a gimmick, but out of heartfelt genuine desire to focus attention onto my songs, not myself, and because I believe there are ideas expressed that must be heard. I believe people should fall in love with a song, which is an eternal thing, not the mere flawed mortal who creates it and can only disappoint his fans in the end."

"So Ashamed" is the fifth song on Catman Cohen's new CD.

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