It’s not hard to speak to anxious times because so many artists were already writing for them: Kelly Clarkson’s just-released “I Dare You” — the titular challenge is to love in a divisive world — or much of what was already on the Active Rock chart. THEORY’s “World Keeps Spinning” is a personal song about mental illness but resonates now. So is Grey Daze’s “Sickness,” climbing the chart now. The new song from Scott Stapp is called “Survivor,” while the one from his ex-Creed bandmates Alter Bridge is “Godspeed.” Alternative has songs that took on additional meaning as well, particularly Bleeker’s “Give a Little Bit More (Disaster).”
Powfu’s “Coffee for Your Head (Deathbed)” and JP Saxe f/Julia Michaels’ “If the World Was Ending” both predate the current crisis, but continue to grow. Both were covered in this column last week, including the intriguing parallels between “Deathbed” and the ‘70s pop lightning rod “Seasons in the Sun.”
