Noga Erez - NO News On TV

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🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Noga Erez - "NO News on TV," a 2020 single on City Slang.

With today's Song of the Day, Tel-Aviv based artist Noga Erez teams up with her partner Ori Rousso to reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic. In a press statement, she shares:

"This song was written during a period where I had more time than I've had in a decade. I was able to sit down and work my ass off on new music without any emails disturbing the silence. No notifications, nothing. I wanted to write a song that talked about that. I felt a deep need to imagine what it would be like to live in a world with no politics, money, grit, racism, or violence.

[...] Singing about how ‘everybody’s free’ right now is such an incredible dissonance for me. It says exactly what it needs to say: not everyone is free. Actually most of us aren’t, but some of us are literally, physically not free. And that has to change fast."

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0:00.0	I don't want to look at my phone anymore. I don't want to roll like a stone anymore. I can't hear my thoughts in this silence no more.
0:21.0	Bring back the noise. Bring back the noise. I guess I must have been in my room for too long.
0:27.0	Black flags red fonts with my eyes for too long. We gonna be all right. They don't play it no more.
0:34.0	Play it no more. Don't play it no more.
0:37.0	TikTok I just woke up and I don't know what's the time.
0:42.0	No one's the time.
0:43.0	No one's looking at the clock,
0:46.0	there's nowhere to climb.
0:49.0	Dick the guy just woke up and there's no news on TV.
0:55.0	Almost selling stuff for money, everybody's free.
1:01.0	Man, I'm so bored.
1:05.0	I don't want to look at my phone anymore.
1:10.0	I don't want to roll like a stone anymore. I can't hear my thoughts in this
1:15.9	silence no more. Bring back the noise. Bring back the noise.
1:20.3	Somebody came in and broke the lock.
1:23.0	We didn't even notice we was stuck.
1:26.0	It's like clean your nose,
1:28.0	feather rose, body but don't overdose.
1:30.0	Hold your hose, pick up bows, when her first lows.
1:33.0	TikTok I just woke up and I don't know what's the time.
1:38.0	We're gonna be to the low ones looking at that clap is there's nowhere to climb.
1:45.0	Dick the guy just woke up and there's no news on defeat.
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