New sounds of silence

I’ve recently been following this artist on Soundcloud, Sarah Walker, whose specialty is freely reinterpreting standards of the past (many of them from my own formative years) in what I might say is a more contemporary style, reminiscent of popular singer-songwriters of the moment (think Tay Tay, et al.).

The premise seems to be imagine that a Gen Z singer found a bunch of boomer lyrics and had literally no idea how the songs went, but used them to write new songs in styles that I’ll admit did not appeal to my partner.

Here is one she dropped yesterday that is just so jaunty. I love it:

Now, her profile image sure looks like GenAI and maybe she’s entirely synthetic, but there is someone behind it presenting as her even if so, and we still call Homer Homer even if he was a committee of bards, etc., so let’s stick with that for now.