A Quarantine Song
As the urgent work remains of urging people to stay home, and as those staying home encounter true obstacles, I've been looking for ways I can contribute positively. I thought: I could at least write a song?
I decided to adapt/parody an existing song, one I wrote a year or so ago for work, called Cold Feet. In the original song, our characters are voluntarily self-isolating during a holiday season, and trying to make the best of it. I figured it would save me production costs, and still be quite thematically apt, to repurpose my own song!
I drafted 3 completely different lyrical directions, and finally landed on this one. The vocals were recorded in one take, at night after the kids were in bed, but rather than over-doing it, I'm embracing the low production quality and hoping it reveals the real-ness of our moment.
Maybe somebody in your life isn't staying home enough, and you want to passive-aggressively send them this song, hoping to inspire them. Or maybe as a nurse, doctor or frontl…
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