Following Clare Bowditch’s impersonation of Julia Gillard at Splendour in the Grass, the musician who claims to be “the founding member of the political disco party” has interviewed the Prime Minister for MySpace.

Though politicians have been criticised during the election campaign for not embracing the potential of social media, by appearing on MySpace Gillard’s campaign boldly forward into the early 2000s.

MySpace Australia’s managing director Nick Love says that “We couldn’t be happier that someone as smart and politically-aware as Clare Bowditch will be adding a MySpace twist to the proceedings. Should make from an interesting break from the typical political interviews from the past few weeks!”

The timing is rather good for Bowditch with her new album Modern Day Addiction hitting the shelves last week and presumably Gillard has a few things to promote as well.

According to Bowditch “I decided to take a risk early, but challenging her on the lack of inspiration we felt about this election, and in doing so I also asked her to take a risk, and speak from the heart. For the most part, she responded openly, with some surprising answers too.”

The forty minute interview covers the arts, environment, health, same-sex marriage and refuge policy – hopefully Bowditch proves to be more adept as a amateur journalist than Mark Latham.

Bowditch claims that she “would gladly have also interviewed Tony Abbott” but was told that he was “unavailable”.

Because we are a tad tired of this old election, we have decided to hold a FL vote as to which musician would make the best Aussie PM. Tim Rogers? Daniel Johns? The Steele? Email competitions at staff dot fasterlouder dot com dot au to cast your vote and we’ll announce the top 10 this Friday.

Check out Clare Bowditch’s top ten Australian albums of the last decade