If nothing else, with most of us practicing social distancing, the contagion has shown us all to be pretty much the same.
What am I talking about?
In this case performers, singers, songwriters.
We all look the same now, singing from our living rooms. Now that may strike some as snarky-maybe a little-but it shows, if fact, that behind all the makeup and lights and sets and staging, and the like, is someone simply playing a song. And if it's jarring at first to see your favorite artist sitting in a T-shirt and jeans strumming out a low-fi, home-streamed song you've never heard straight up, it's also reinforcing that we all start with the same thing: an idea that becomes a tune that we lyricise in our own space.
Ok, so maybe at the top they get together in a fancier space, but you get the drift. And it makes them all a little more human.
Also, and this is sorta important, it shows that at its base, creativity happens right where you are, and as we're either encouraged, asked, or required under penalty of scolding or worse to stay home, might as well make the most of it.
And yes, I get tired of hearing that too.
I'd really like to be out and about-I get enough at home stuff like this writing you're reading (hopefully)-listening to people play and yak and drink and socialize; all the stuff humans are wired to do.
But, for now, that's not in the cards.
Groan!
So for now check out the artists you enjoy and see that they're just like us... for the most part... and don't forget the ones who aren't so well known.
©2020 David WIlliam Pearce
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