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A collective of artists calling themselves Artists for a Better City have created a new campaign song for Olivia Chow and, well, it’s certainly a campaign song. The song goes through a long list of reasons why “You need Olivia” which seem culled from talking points and campaign planks. You can listen to it yourself and make up your own mind about it.

The song follows the grand tradition of the Ted Morton theme song from the 2006 Alberta PC leadership race (“Ted Morton is the man“) and the Rob Ford theme song from Ford Fest in 2013. That particular song (video embedded below) was a completely earnest pro-Ford anthem, however, the person putting together the YouTube video for it accidentally included a picture of Ford Photoshopped to show him holding a crack pipe.

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THE FULL LYRICS FOR “WHY WE NEED OLIVIA” The next station is Olivia … Olivia Chow When your bus doesn’t come for an hour-and-a-half you need Olivia OLIVIA And when it finally does it’s totally packed you need Olivia OLIVIA When riding your bike endangers your life (even with your helmet, your bells, your lights), but you keep on cycling through the cycling strife you need Olivia OLIVIA Can’t find good child care for your kids you need Olivia OLIVIA Can’t afford groceries and a place to live you need Olivia OLIVIA Want to make art but you can’t afford to, try to be heard but they just ignore you, can’t find a good job well I assure you, you need Olivia OLIVIA Tory and Ford are like peas in a pod. We need Olivia OLIVIA Time to give a city builder the nod, we need Olivia OLIVIA And our parks safe for walking, subway relief, trees trees communities, get yourself out to vote for Ohh Cee, we need Olivia NEXT STOP [Musical interlude] OLLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVIAAAAAAAAA OLLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVIAAAAAAAAA OLLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVIAAAAAAAAA OLLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVIAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH