“What’s happening all around us is so unbelievably bizarre,” singer said of the track with her touring band
Sheryl Crow is making music with her longtime touring band, and for now, it’s all about the sci-fi ways we might be actually doomed.
Billed as Sheryl Crow and the Lowdown, the group released “The New Normal,” where Crow warns, “Punch the clock and walk away/While you have a job and while that job still pays/It’s a way you’re gonna wake up some day to a robot that’s in your place/Like all the predictions say.”
In a press release, Crow said, “What’s happening all around us is so unbelievably bizarre, that my fear is we will truly begin to feel like this is normal. And that’s what terrifies me.”
In addition to satirizing the threat of artificial intelligence, the song seems to skewer Colossal Biosciences work to bring animals back from extinction when Crow sings, “A wooly mammoth’s on his way/Back in time to watch us leave for space/It’s a race/Not every human race.” The hook of the song seems to take a shot at President Donald Trump presiding over unprecedented times: “If the news is fake and fear is hate/And nothing’s immoral to the leader of the free world/Then, welcome to the new normal.”
The lyric video features the band doing what they’ve done for 15 years together, according to a press release – touring. They’re seen backstage and performing at massive shows at places like Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas and Met Life Stadium in New Jersey. “I am so blessed to have the band that I have,” Crow said in a statement. “For years, we have jammed up such cool stuff during sound checks that we decided we go in and start recording as a band. Can’t wait for everyone to hear the new stuff we are doing.”
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Crow has been speaking out on many social issues lately. She had previously noted her concerns about A.I. on “Evolution,” the title track from her 11th studio LP last year. This February, she sold her Tesla in protest after Elon Musk and President Donald Trump began their work to cut government programs through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. She said she donated the proceeds to NPR, which will likely face budget cuts as Congress just approved a $9 billion rollback of funds previously allocated to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
During Mental Health Awareness Month in May, Crow released “I Know,” a song she said she wrote “In a recent moment when I was really struggling.” When sharing the song on Instagram, she directed listeners to the mental health charity To Write Love On Her Arms and encouraged viewers to tap out of social media for their wellbeing.
