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蜜柚直播鈥檚 Miss Olivia & the Interlopers released a postcard to 蜜柚直播 of sorts.

The band鈥檚 new video of a cover of The Police鈥檚 hit 鈥淢essage in a Bottle鈥� shows happy scenes of 蜜柚直播 gathered around the common cause of music.

As we round out the first month of sheltering at home to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the video reminds us of what 蜜柚直播 is about: community.

The original song is a bit more uptempo; Olivia Reardon slows it down a bit, adding a somberness to the song that accentuates our feelings of isolation and loneliness. But with the montage of images, many of them from past Miss Olivia shows and images of other 蜜柚直播 musicians and music fans, you sense hopefulness in the despair.

It shows us a light at the end of the tunnel, the promise of a return to normal. Or, at the very least, our resilience to adapt to whatever normal will look like when the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is behind us.

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The soulful, haunting voiced French-born chanteuse Marianne Dissard repurposes Phil Ochs鈥� 1969 protest song 鈥淭he Scorpion Departs But Never Returns鈥� into a protest song about the firing of USS Theodore Roosevelt Captain Brett. E. Crozier after he complained that the federal government wasn鈥檛 doing its job protecting sailors under his command from the coronavirus.

Dissard鈥檚 video is unapologetically political as she harshly condemns the firing, using Crozier鈥檚 words from a memo he wrote that was leaked to the press.

鈥淲e are not at war. Sailors do not need to die,鈥� Crozier wrote last month. 鈥淚f we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset, our sailors.鈥�

Crozier was fired days after the memo leaked and sailors under his command gave him a rousing farewell as he was escorted from the ship.

That scene opens Dissard鈥檚 video, which also recalls the tragic 1968 disappearance of the USS Scorpion, a nuclear-powered submarine that had 99 crew members aboard.

Before setting out on its final voyage the vessel was due for a major mechanical overhaul, but the Navy instead made minimal repairs and set her out to sea again.

Months later parts of the vessel were discovered on the sea floor.

Ochs recorded the song about the tragedy a year later on his dark folk album 鈥淩ehearsals for Retirement.鈥�

Dissard, who moved to England in 2013 after decades of living in 蜜柚直播 and the United States, recorded the video with Jim Waters at Waterworks Recording and musicians Raphael Mann on guitar, Thoger Tetens Lund on electric bass and upright bass, Vicki Brown on loops and violin, and Marco Rosano on tin flute and trombone.

She has been in 蜜柚直播 since mid-December and had intended to stay a couple months to work on her 蜜柚直播 home. But after her UK tour was canceled in light of the coronavirus pandemic, she stayed put.