Artist: Bad Manners
Title: Can Can
Why?: Remember that scene in the movie 'Titanic' when the ship is sinking and the band is playing music? In a crisis situation, you need people to be calm. Calm means people need some sense of normalcy. Having the band play music was an effort to make things seem normal.
Right now, the ship is sinking. Which is why we're all desperately clinging to the things that make life normal. Which is why, in Toronto anyway, you're seeing people crowding into parks when they shouldn't be. It's spring here. Many people are either working from home or laid off with very little to do. Staying trapped inside your home, especially when you know something terrible is going on, is incredibly nerve-racking.
I don't want to be the tragic doom-sayer. I would much rather stay cheerful because there's enough negativity in the world all around. But the world is sinking fast. Or, at least, Toronto is. We're Canadian, and we have a reputation for being nice. Unlike some other governments, we've had all levels of government politely and firmly suggest what the course of action should be, and for the most part, people have done their best to do so. But when you hear people moving gates so they can go to a closed park, or recreational areas teeming with people, who are clearly not physically distancing themselves, it becomes sadly obvious that we needed actual legislation placed sooner. These people are that kid who wouldn't stop talking and made the rest of the class loose out on recess time because he was an idiot. And we are going to pay for these recess-time cutting morons.
At this point, me being me, decided that if this ship is indeed sinking, and they gotta play Orpheus in the Underworld, then let it be this awesome ska version of it because it will bring a smile to your face because it's fun and ridiculous. Bonus! Bad Manner's appearance on Top of the Pops featuring Buster Bloodvessel in appropriate costume, whose skills as a dancer match my own.
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