Tune Of The Week: Sad Party by Baba

This week's Tune Of The Week is Sad Party by Baba - watch the video above.

Owen Behan's video for Sad Party features performers Tobi Balogun, Oyena Sixaba, Danya James and Adeshope Adeneye and explores "the irony of how technology, meant to bring us closer together, has in some ways pushed us further apart," as Baba puts it.

Baba (AKA Siobhán Lynch) wrote the song's catchy chorus—'I’ve just been to a real sad party, everybody’s crying over something new’—immediately after having friends over for a melancholy, between-lockdowns shindig.

She explains: "I wrote the chorus of 'Sad Party' during one of the first easings of the covid restrictions, when you could have six people in your garden with a cheeseburger on their head or whatever those crazy rules were. My friends were never off social media during lockdown and looked like they were having a ball: baking, hosting virtual quizzes with cocktails, and so I imagined that this was going to be an incredibly fun reunion. But after a few drinks, everyone was literally crying, they were all so miserable and a little crazy. Being cooped up, as we all were, was making them really have to confront their lives. Some of them were just really lonely and struggling. There wasn’t a dry eye in the house."

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