A car with a masked driver rolls down the street, the windows open, the thumping of bass, the dystopian chorus explodes in the summer air: Do you have the antibodieeees? Do you want to be with me? It’s the new song for this pandemic summer thanks to the guy who played Cousin Greg in Succession.
Historically, it has taken time for apocalypses like climate change to turn into summers. But hey, if nothing else, 2020 is moving Quick.
The song started in May when actor Nicholas Braun (also known as Cousin Greg) was quarantined with friends, according to Rolling Stone, where the song premiered today.
“My friends are a couple and they’ve been together for years, but I was back like saying, ‘Man, I wish I had someone right now to go through this,'” Braun said. Rolling Stone. “And then this girl and I were talking and we thought, ‘Maybe we should go meet up and go for a walk, wearing scarves.’ So I went on this quarantine date; it felt secret because I didn’t want my friends to know. And I guess the combination of paranoia and romance is what the song is about. ”
Braun launched a “call to nature” – Instagram – begging his musically inclined followers to help him with a song idea. Apparently, he played a chord, because boy, they replied. The Atlantic Records label noticed it and morphed into a professionally produced song and music video, according to Rolling Stone.
The bandanas that inspired the song appear in the music video. Also Instagram fans. And hand sanitizer. And clips from COVID press conferences. And masks. An escape from our current reality, this is not. But it is surprisingly catchy.
It even manages to work in the scientific uncertainty that has become a feature of the pandemic. After the line very troublesome. I want to know that your blood has the things / things that clean you he clarifies Although we don’t know what it means / TO GET IT AGAIN.
Pure poetry. In addition, it specifies.
Braun’s father, 81, had COVID-19 and recovered, according to Rolling Stone. Proceeds from the song will go to COPE and Partners in Health nonprofit.
Mask, mask, mask.
