“It used to be ‘that song is so 2008’. Now it’s ‘ugh, that song is so 10am. What are you thinking? With that old song you old man?”
This is captured in his new song.
📑 Ben Folds captures the strangeness of 2020 in his new single
2020 has a viral outbreak, much like 1918’s ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic. There’s economic downturn, like the Great Depression of 1930. Then there’s the cultural tension of 1968, which played out against the backdrop of the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement, which Folds likens to the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
Zan Rowe speaks with Ben Folds about music during the time of coronavirus. Insightful and honest as ever, Folds touches on the strangeness of time this year: