Joey Carbone has been bugging me for the last 20 years. In fact, he was bugging me even before I met him. Like a constant itch, he gets inside your head and stays there.
In fact, he doesn't even do this dirty work himself. Instead, he teaches young kids to do it and gets them to drag other young kids into his hypnotic web. If he were selling drugs, he'd be arrested. But he's not; he's selling songs — songs that take over your mind until they drive you crazy. He produces the goods (sometimes with a co-conspirator) and then sells them to unsuspecting music producers in Japan. This is one sick puppy.
The fact is, Joey Carbone is so friendly, he could be a little Labrador. But this little Labrador is reportedly the second-most successful foreign songwriter ever in Japan (The Beatles are No. 1). For more than 20 years, Carbone has been flying to Japan to peddle his wares.