What Are These Songs Are Telling Us?
Epiphany
This song from Taylor Swift's folklore album chronicles the experiences of healthcare workers during the pandemic. Using a comparison to wartime, Swift paints a picture of workers experiencing countless deaths on a daily basis. Drawing from stories of healthcare workers only having twenty minutes to sleep between shifts, Swift speaks of using those twenty minutes to dream of a solution, an epiphany, that will end the suffering caused by Covid-19.
Six Feet Apart
Social distancing guidelines throughout the pandemic enforced rules to keep six feet away from others as a way to assist in slowing the spread of the virus. Luke Combs writes this song to describe how much he misses spending time with others and doing normal things like hugging or shaking hands. The tone of this song is melancholy at all that has been missed over the course of the pandemic, but hopeful for the days when life returns to normal.
When Life is Good Again
Dolly Parton reflects on life before the pandemic in this song and the things she wishes she had been doing differently. She speaks on how she could've been a better friend or been the bigger person and promises to change these things when the pandemic ends and "life is good again". This song covers the self-reflection that took place for many when the pandemic struck and the promises made to yourself to be better than you were.
Good Job
This song from Alicia Keys also discusses healthcare workers but focuses more on acknowledging their work and the sacrifices they've made throughout the last couple of years. It isn't uncommon for hard work to go unnoticed or unpraised so these lyrics are Keys' way of thanking healthcare workers for the work they are doing.
Do What You Can
Bon Jovi released this song in 2020 when the pandemic was still in its early stages. During this time the world was still in quarantine and trying to deal with the changing world. This song identifies the struggles that each person was experiencing during that time, but focuses on the fact that every person doing just a little goes a long way. From small donations of PPE equipment to following stay-at-home orders, Bon Jovi focuses on the smallest of tasks to show that everyone has something they can give.
Stay Home
Big & Rich take their opportunity here to give a bit of a joking tone to the seriousness of living through a global pandemic. With an upbeat tempo and lyrics that poke fun at the struggles of being stuck at home in quarantine, this song represents the humor that has helped so many people cope with Covid-19.
Life in Quarantine
In this song, Benjamin Gibbard perfectly portrays the feeling of eeriness that surrounded the first few months of the pandemic when life just seemed to freeze. Highlighting the empty streets and those who stood at the airport just trying to get home, Gibbard's lyrics don't look for a solution, they just search to capture the underlying fear that the whole world felt as hospitals overflowed and everything seemed to stop.
F2020
The lyrics from Avenue Beat in this song represent one key emotion, anger. Anger at losing a social life. Anger at being stuck in a pandemic. Anger at what others were going through. Just general anger towards every bad thing that 2020 brought. Many Covid-19 songs center around staying strong through the struggles but this song does a killer job of representing what nearly every person has been feeling through the years of the pandemic.
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