Coping with the lockdown

 

Here is a cover of Heart’s “Alone”, performed by the incomparable Floor Jansen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fu-yP6q6Gk

 

Shakira is a global superstar, one of the best-selling Spanish-language artists in history.  She largely avoided the self-degradation necessary for female singers to break through in the U.S., but she has a big following in the Latin community here.  “Estoy aqui” is Spanish for “I am here”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmJHH026X0c

 

Here is the best song I’ve heard to come out of the pandemic.  This group are known mostly for raucous hard rock, but here they turn in a performance suffused with jazz, soul, a little funk, and some gorgeous vocal harmonies.  Band-Maid:  "about Us"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qicgVAxCYV8

I included this previously in one of my “Guitar Magic” posts, but it really deserves another hearing.  Tina Setkic, playing Gary Moore’s mournful blues composition “The Loner”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9AyDXx19Q

 

Alternatively, here is a fight song.  Bonus: if you believe it's time for women to do the butt-kicking, this is your jam.  Lovebites:  When Destinies Align:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLFelI93VkM

 

Or one can just laugh at it all.  I don't know how to describe this.  Boney M.: “Rasputin”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AaTvyIuvE0