Chosen by Monk
We promised you a power poptastic double header this weekend, and very few people come with more power poptastic credentials than Willie Dowling, who proved that he is far from a rock ‘n’ roll #Simpleton with the release of his fantastic, OTW piano-led solo album, from which this is the final short-form delicacy to be served up for our mutual delectation:
Speaking about the gestation of the song, Willie told me:
[It] was written and recorded in a day largely because [I] was curious to try and stretch some partially dormant skills and write a song from beginning to end at the piano in one session, without going in to the recording studio first.
On the inspiration for the lyrics, he added:
In a post truth world where social media delivers the headlines and AI manipulates our emotions, none of us can be truly certain if information is 100 per cent reliable, deliberate disinformation, or just plain lies. The message often seems to be: ‘Don’t believe your eyes, believe what you’re told’. It often feels that on some level we’re all being ‘Gaslit’ from all directions.”
This has contributed to a massive breakdown in communication and an enormous polarisation of opinion that has increasingly amplified into a global existential crisis, largely courtesy of an idiot narcissist and his enablers in the USA, with the financial and political backing of a cabal of right wing billionaires world wide who are determined to shape the world to their will.