Most people would agree that 2020 has not exactly been a banner year — and we’re not even halfway through it. To commemorate the crappiest year in recent memory, Ben Folds has written a song that sweetly encapsulates its sheer awfulness in his new track “2020”.
The gentle piano-based melody asks “how many years will we try to cram into one,” adding, “We thought we’d be living 1918 again/But we messed that up so bad/God had to throw 1930 in/As the sun rose on 1968 this morning.” “We seem to be currently reliving and cramming a number of historically tumultuous years into one,” Folds said in a statement. “For a moment it was all about the 1918 pandemic.