CRIME: Turning a plaintive song about familial

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CRIME: Turning a plaintive song about familial pain into a celebration of corporate greed. EVIDENCE: Perhaps the most terrible/great video ever to emerge from a corporate meeting. Ethan Chandler (vocals) and Jim DeBois (guitar) deliver a passionate cover of U2’s “One,” rewritten as “One Bank” to motivate a pack of sales drones following MBNA’s merger with Bank of America. Leaked to YouTube, it shocked and scared people everywhere. The Wall Street Journal used it as a springboard to suggest what you shouldn’t do at work (and quoted “an expert on empathetic embarrassment”).

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