This is an original song of mine dedicated to all those people who out there who I wanted to slap in 2020 and early 2021. It is a song about the people you’d see who would ignore mask mandates, who would cry that the very legal emergency measures that governors implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19 were infringing on their freedom somehow, who when asked to do the very least they could do to help protect their community said, “NO!” Those who held up YouTube videos as expert medical advice, who gathered en masse in their churches claiming that their god would keep them safe, who hide behind their religion, wave their guns around, fly their “Fuck Your Feelings” flags, and pretend that they know the first thing about being oppressed.
This, to me, it the quintessential COVID song, and it would be the first song on the album if I were to release one.
This song utilizes Band in a Box by PGMusic. It is an incredibly useful tool that uses both MIDI files, and tracks recorded by real musicians to help songwriters and other musicians to get great sounding backing tracks. It also uses Toontrack EZdrummer 2, which is a dang handy drum program.
Personnel:
- Muggsy Lauer – guitar, mandolin, bass, vocals, and MIDI programming
- Jeff Engholm – background vocals
- Dean Severson – pedal steel guitar
- Band in a Box – fiddle and banjo
- Toontrack EZdrummer 2 – drums
- Mixed by Jeff Engholm
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