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Triple J's Requestival Sees Julia Gillard's Misogyny Speech Played In Full As A Song

Triple J's Requestival Sees Julia Gillard's Misogyny Speech Played In Full As A Song

We've also been treated to the likes of Hilary Duff's 'What Dreams Are Made Of' and and Enrique Iglesias' 'Hero'

Stewart Perrie

Stewart Perrie

Triple J's Requestival has seen some incredibly unlikely songs play on the national broadcaster's station.

It's a five-day event that puts the music schedule fully in the hands of listeners and everyone has to either endure or sing-a-long to whatever plays next.

We've already been treated to the likes of Hilary Duff's 'What Dreams Are Made Of', Dwayne Johnson's 'You're Welcome', and Enrique Iglesias' 'Hero' and we're all secretly loving it.

But the radio station turned up the dial just after 11am today (May 12) when it played Julia Gillard's iconic misogyny speech in full.

The Triple J Plays Twitter account documents every song and the time that it goes out to let people who might not know what banger they're listening to is.

The Julia Gillard post has received more attention than any post on the whole day and has attracted more than a thousand likes and hundreds of retweets.

People have been absolutely loving the fact that someone, somewhere thought it would be a good idea to submit the speech as a song and Triple J was happy to oblige.

Requestival will be running until Friday (May 14) and Triple J is absolutely stoked at the idea of handing over the musical keys to their listeners.

"Last year had everything from Tiesto's 'Adagio For Strings', to John Williams' iconic 'Duel Of The Fates'; right on through to 'Bring It All Back' by S Club 7 and everyone's dirty pleasure, 'How You Remind Me' by Nickelback. Don't pretend like you haven't belted it out. Don't @ me.

"Then, on the more weird and wonderful end of the spectrum, we were hearing everything from Michael Bolton to Teriyaki Boyz to friggin' Beethoven in the mix. Horns up for 'Symphony No. 5 in C minor: I. Allegro con brio'!"

You can literally ask for anything you want, so get creative and send in your requests because once it's over Triple J goes back to its usual programming of songs that play a few weeks or months before commercial stations get on board.

Featured Image Credit: PA

Topics: Australia