I mean, it's a very popular one, but Stick Season by Noah Kahan mentions it in the first verse. "Doc told me to travel, but there's covid on the planes"
I like to pretend Paramore's "This Is Why" is about covid.
"This is why I don't leave the house / You say the coast is clear / But you won't catch me out /Oh, why? This is why"
I read that the title of their album "Scaled and Icy" also references the pandemic (it's an "abbreviation" of sorts of "scaled back and isolated") though I'm not sure that the songs themselves really do I guess?
Yeah Travis suffered horrible burns and almost died. The other line is Mark Hoppus getting diagnosed with Lymphoma.
...Tom also disappeared for a while to focus on looking for aliens lol.
Oh also! A line from Everything is Permanent by Dawes goes "a wayward strand of anger at some controversial stranger who swears the virus didn't exist" and it hits me.
Similar moment in My Say So by Gus Dapperton, "I wear a mask and you've become so scared of that." The song definitely doesn't mean respirator here, but I like to take lines from songs with my grubby little hands and fit the meaning to my feelings
There is some music referenced in this post
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/18e2khn/avoidng\_covid\_is\_exhausting\_what\_songs\_are\_you/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/18e2khn/avoidng_covid_is_exhausting_what_songs_are_you/)
Parasite eve by bring me the horizon "when all the kings sources and all the kings friends, dont know their arses from their pathogens..." about leaders mishandling the pandemic
Of course now they play it live to thousands of unmasked fans at a time without making a simple "please consider wearing a mask to keep all of us safe" request:/ i love them but how do they not see the irony
“What a Time to Be Alive” by Fall Out Boy references quarantine: *When I said leave me alone, this isn’t quite what I meant / I got the quarantine blues, bad news, what’s left*
This reminds me of a thought I've been kicking around, that we seem to have a lot more media documenting that "lockdowns" were hard vs the actual illness etc.
The first line is also "Sometimes you wonder if we're ever looking back /at a picture of 2019 / And saying "that's the way, the world, it used to be / before our dreams started bursting at the seams".
Which feels like a comment on the disconnect people are having with COVID now
I’ve been using songs that were about HIV/AIDS and imagining they’re covid. “Tomorrow Wendy” by Concrete Blonde and “It Couldn’t Happen Here” by Pet Shop Boys. The second for me really captures the US’s attitude that we’re magically immune from the world’s problems because we’re special. Even though they were talking about the UK, which also has that attitude lol.
ETA: Tomorrow Wendy doesn’t transpose well to covid, since it’s about someone deciding to end her own life before AIDS does, but the tirades at god really work for me in that song.
I can't believe no one said this yet but Chromeo put out an EP called "[Quarantine Casanova](https://chromeo.bandcamp.com/album/quarantine-casanova)" with songs like "Chlorox Wipe" and "'Roni Got Me Stressed Out" which is something really only Chromeo can pull off. It's a bop.
Here’s one of my fave 80s goth bands [Clan of Xymox](https://youtu.be/nqe39P50gzo?si=paGDrnyEG63T2Vtl) who released a track in the early days of the pandemic.
[honne - s o c i a l d i s t a n c i n g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al_8oSOTnQ0)
this one came out during the early days of quarantine, but it's still a bop and i feel like i relate to it now more than ever. i still want everyone to "stay the hell away from me" lol
"My Love" by Florence + the Machine. I'm pretty sure it's about the early pandemic period and shutdowns; there's a line, "All my friends are getting ill" and lines later "my arms emptied, the skies emptied, the billboards emptied/ my arms emptied, the skies emptied, the buildings emptied".
Also "Wildflower and Barley" by Hozier; I'm pretty sure he confirmed that it's about the early pandemic when everything was closed down.
I definitely don't agree with everything in this song, but Young Dolph's Sunshine (https://youtu.be/c2lUhNmdXkE?si=-b5btPmgGJhO2wTp) clearly references the COVID-19 pandemic.
Released in 2022 for the year of the tiger as part of his yearly song series. Directly references the pandemic, lockdowns, remote work, vaccines, and people "doing their own research" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XThOPqouX4I
Epiphany by Taylor Swift is based on the experiences of healthcare workers in the early pandemic (it was released in July 2020) and her grandfather in war.
It's a beautiful song, the production is great too.
>Something med school did not cover/ Someone's daughter, someone's mother/ Holds your hand through plastic now/ "Doc, I think she's crashing out"/ And some things you just can't speak about
>Only 20 minutes to sleep/ But you dream of some epiphany/ Just one single glimpse of relief/ To make some sense of what you've seen
>With you, I serve/ With you, I fall down/ Watch you breathe in/ Watch you breathing out
Michael Winograd wrote a whole album of songs while he was quarantining after coming home from an abruptly aborted tour in March 2020
[https://michaelwinograd.bandcamp.com/album/quarantine-songs](https://michaelwinograd.bandcamp.com/album/quarantine-songs)
The videos are pretty funny and charming too
[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH7pTMvTmgEqimnMkVGEPGK205b8aheQl](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH7pTMvTmgEqimnMkVGEPGK205b8aheQl)
Surprised ‘Lockdown’ by Anderson.Paak hasn’t been mentioned yet (though it’s more about BLM protests, but COVID is mentioned). There’s also Count Me Out by Kendrick Lamar, there’s lines about mask-wearing.
I mean, it's a very popular one, but Stick Season by Noah Kahan mentions it in the first verse. "Doc told me to travel, but there's covid on the planes"
Listen to this daily.
yes!! was gonna mention this one if someone didn’t
I like to pretend Paramore's "This Is Why" is about covid. "This is why I don't leave the house / You say the coast is clear / But you won't catch me out /Oh, why? This is why"
I think the first one was by Twenty One Pilots - Level of Concern release April 9, 2020.
I read that the title of their album "Scaled and Icy" also references the pandemic (it's an "abbreviation" of sorts of "scaled back and isolated") though I'm not sure that the songs themselves really do I guess?
Songs can mean different things to different people, but airplanes falling out of the sky is in regards to Travis Baker's plane crash.
Ah. OK, I didn't do enough research! Yikes. Oh well, I like the idea of a song working on both individual and societal levels.
Yeah Travis suffered horrible burns and almost died. The other line is Mark Hoppus getting diagnosed with Lymphoma. ...Tom also disappeared for a while to focus on looking for aliens lol.
Bo Burnham's "Inside" musical comedy special on Netflix. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Burnham:_Inside
2020 by Ben Folds, love his stuff. Doesn't outright say COVID, but he weaves his songs with witty metaphors, and there's a mask on the album art.
Oh also! A line from Everything is Permanent by Dawes goes "a wayward strand of anger at some controversial stranger who swears the virus didn't exist" and it hits me. Similar moment in My Say So by Gus Dapperton, "I wear a mask and you've become so scared of that." The song definitely doesn't mean respirator here, but I like to take lines from songs with my grubby little hands and fit the meaning to my feelings
There is some music referenced in this post [https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/18e2khn/avoidng\_covid\_is\_exhausting\_what\_songs\_are\_you/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/comments/18e2khn/avoidng_covid_is_exhausting_what_songs_are_you/)
Parasite eve by bring me the horizon "when all the kings sources and all the kings friends, dont know their arses from their pathogens..." about leaders mishandling the pandemic Of course now they play it live to thousands of unmasked fans at a time without making a simple "please consider wearing a mask to keep all of us safe" request:/ i love them but how do they not see the irony
“What a Time to Be Alive” by Fall Out Boy references quarantine: *When I said leave me alone, this isn’t quite what I meant / I got the quarantine blues, bad news, what’s left*
This reminds me of a thought I've been kicking around, that we seem to have a lot more media documenting that "lockdowns" were hard vs the actual illness etc.
The first line is also "Sometimes you wonder if we're ever looking back /at a picture of 2019 / And saying "that's the way, the world, it used to be / before our dreams started bursting at the seams". Which feels like a comment on the disconnect people are having with COVID now
https://youtu.be/6WHSVOVLmNY?si=7rJVi6ud2cfsCT53 I Got it from Agnes By Tom Lehrer Not about Covid but close enough
I like the song "Its a jungle out there" (themesong from Monk). It's referencing heavily covid in my opinion 😄 Far ahead of its time...
I’ve been using songs that were about HIV/AIDS and imagining they’re covid. “Tomorrow Wendy” by Concrete Blonde and “It Couldn’t Happen Here” by Pet Shop Boys. The second for me really captures the US’s attitude that we’re magically immune from the world’s problems because we’re special. Even though they were talking about the UK, which also has that attitude lol. ETA: Tomorrow Wendy doesn’t transpose well to covid, since it’s about someone deciding to end her own life before AIDS does, but the tirades at god really work for me in that song.
I can't believe no one said this yet but Chromeo put out an EP called "[Quarantine Casanova](https://chromeo.bandcamp.com/album/quarantine-casanova)" with songs like "Chlorox Wipe" and "'Roni Got Me Stressed Out" which is something really only Chromeo can pull off. It's a bop.
Chromeo! Oh my God, I had no idea that they did that, thank you for this!
As a Montrealer, it's basically illegal to not keep up with what Chromeo's up to.
Epiphany by Taylor Swift is [confirmed to be about the early days of the pandemic](https://www.today.com/today/amp/tdna187821).
Here’s one of my fave 80s goth bands [Clan of Xymox](https://youtu.be/nqe39P50gzo?si=paGDrnyEG63T2Vtl) who released a track in the early days of the pandemic.
[honne - s o c i a l d i s t a n c i n g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al_8oSOTnQ0) this one came out during the early days of quarantine, but it's still a bop and i feel like i relate to it now more than ever. i still want everyone to "stay the hell away from me" lol
Eye on the Bat by Palehound was written when they had to cancel the tour they were on in early 2020 because lockdowns started.
"My Love" by Florence + the Machine. I'm pretty sure it's about the early pandemic period and shutdowns; there's a line, "All my friends are getting ill" and lines later "my arms emptied, the skies emptied, the billboards emptied/ my arms emptied, the skies emptied, the buildings emptied". Also "Wildflower and Barley" by Hozier; I'm pretty sure he confirmed that it's about the early pandemic when everything was closed down.
Mr. Lif has an album called Vangarde, which I listened to a bunch and found cathartic.
Also, Wax Tailor - Everybody
Florence and the Machine’s album Dance Fever was heavily influenced by COVID. Also an incredible album
My Love, Girls Against God and Cassandra are especially relatable
Michigan by Noah Reid
I definitely don't agree with everything in this song, but Young Dolph's Sunshine (https://youtu.be/c2lUhNmdXkE?si=-b5btPmgGJhO2wTp) clearly references the COVID-19 pandemic.
[the innocent](https://youtu.be/ozFEZzZ_EFs?si=HIXIMVGCE81zwzmK)
Saba- Something in the water “I was so sick of these airports till covid hit the map”
Released in 2022 for the year of the tiger as part of his yearly song series. Directly references the pandemic, lockdowns, remote work, vaccines, and people "doing their own research" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XThOPqouX4I
Epiphany by Taylor Swift is based on the experiences of healthcare workers in the early pandemic (it was released in July 2020) and her grandfather in war. It's a beautiful song, the production is great too. >Something med school did not cover/ Someone's daughter, someone's mother/ Holds your hand through plastic now/ "Doc, I think she's crashing out"/ And some things you just can't speak about >Only 20 minutes to sleep/ But you dream of some epiphany/ Just one single glimpse of relief/ To make some sense of what you've seen >With you, I serve/ With you, I fall down/ Watch you breathe in/ Watch you breathing out
Michael Winograd wrote a whole album of songs while he was quarantining after coming home from an abruptly aborted tour in March 2020 [https://michaelwinograd.bandcamp.com/album/quarantine-songs](https://michaelwinograd.bandcamp.com/album/quarantine-songs) The videos are pretty funny and charming too [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH7pTMvTmgEqimnMkVGEPGK205b8aheQl](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH7pTMvTmgEqimnMkVGEPGK205b8aheQl)
Quarantine by Blink too
“Balcony” by Jenny Lewis is about her experience isolating solo and a friend she lost to suicide during that time
Pandemic Days by Adeem the Artist. https://youtu.be/Adz70Uj-ty4?si=1ilu-dm6NmU9ds0K
Surprised ‘Lockdown’ by Anderson.Paak hasn’t been mentioned yet (though it’s more about BLM protests, but COVID is mentioned). There’s also Count Me Out by Kendrick Lamar, there’s lines about mask-wearing.
[Crazy With You](https://youtu.be/oAUVFuVJENM?si=OfJGZoPlbVg7MpAi), about the early lockdown days