Posted on 11/23/2021 7:44:09 PM PST by algore
Weekly World News releases its first album
When the coronavirus quarantine was first declared, Boyce Day, a Weekly World News reporter (you’ve seen his pieces on the site for years), found himself separated from the important people in his life: his girlfriend, his mentor, his rare-books dealer.
Day started writing poems and lyrics about his experience. Sal Donato, our resident Weekly World News composer and songsmith (you’ve seen his songs on the site for years), was also isolated, stuck inside his mansion with his piano. He began composing short piano pieces.
And then, in April of 2020, the two men reached out to each other on Zoom and partnered on a set of songs about the entire quarantine and pandemic experience: the depths of loneliness, the surfacing into false hope, the slow climb toward real hope.
The titles of these ten songs convey the range of emotions addressed: “Alone In It,” “Standing Away,” “Modern World.” And now we have the album that contains those (and other) songs. Title Alone Voice, It marks Weekly World News’s first foray into pop music.
TOUCHING EVERYONE
These songs are only raw demos, created with socially-distanced technology, without any papering over of what was being thought and felt at the moment.
Day sent his lyrics to Donato, who sent songs back to Day. In this imperfect, spartan manner, the two managed to chronicle one of the most difficult periods in American history.
The Weekly World News knows that we’re all in this together, and always have been. The songs are not, for the most part, concerned with political policies but rather with human emotions.
Albert Folksenvicht, a sociologist who has consulted with the WWN and has written extensively on the way that pop culture is valuable for its ability to summarize and communicate the common portions of complex social experiences, could not be reached for comment.
We are all in this together...
Romanticizing a pandemic. I hope victim ballads do not become a trend.
“found himself separated from the important people in his life: his girlfriend, his mentor, his rare-books dealer.”
He had a girlfriend and a rare-books dealer? My willing suspension of disbelief has been challenged, but I guess anything is possible. Girlfriend and D&D group. Girlfriend and wife that knows about girlfriend. Girlfriend and stamp collecting group. Girlfriend and autism support group. Girlfriend and Acapella group. and so on.
Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of quarantine
People who live in Blue states.
But what about Batboy?
inside his mansion with his piano. He began composing short piano pieces.>>> recently saw a Paul Anka interview where he did some song writing while in the covid prison.
Girlfriend and wife that knows about girlfriend. Girlfriend and stamp collecting group. >>>>
A toast to our wives and lovers and may the never meet.
“But what about Batboy?”
Currently there is too much xenophobic profiling, so he is on the down low somewhere in Wuhan
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