David Byrne Wrote A Song Using Only Elon Musk Quotes For “Scathing” New Documentary

Elon Musk, the richest and arguably shittiest man on the planet, is the subject of Musk, a new epic-length documentary from Alex Gibney, a filmmaker who won an Oscar for 2005's Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room and whose other works include Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief and The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley. Musk is 235 minutes long, and Gibney calls it a "definitive and unvarnished examination" of the man. Musk himself has already called it a "hit piece." I hope it is! The film will include a new David Byrne song that's apparently made up of nothing but Elon Musk quotations.Variety reports that David Byrne teamed up with Daniel Pemberton, the composer whose credits include Project Hail Mary and the Spider-Verse movies, to write a new song called "Let Me Sell You A Dream." Byrne apparently performs the song in the movie, and he says, "I asked for good quotes from the Martian and found more of them online. I’m sure he loves dropping these wild statements, and those became the lyrics. All his own words. No editorializing. Straight from the man’s mouth to mine."Gibney tells Variety:I was thrilled when David agreed to write (with our composer Daniel P...