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Greta Thunberg goes death metal
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 30 September 2019
Having sorted out the imminent death of all life on our planet, Greta Thunberg is giving up the activist life in order to embark on a career in death metal. Well, someone turned her UN speech into a death metal track and she made a joke about it. Or was it a joke? Hmm? Yes, it was. Can I stop trying to build intrigue into this now? Honestly, writing frivolous news stories is almost as exhausting as trying not to totally fuck the planet for future generations.
Anyway, Thunberg recently sailed from the UK to the US in order to attend last week’s UN climate summit in New York – travelling by yacht rather than plane, of course, in order to massively reduce her carbon footprint.
It was a venture which weirdly resulted in right-wing commentators spending two weeks hoping she’d drown. Safely on dry land, she then delivered an inspiring speech, calling for world leaders to start giving a shit about climate change.
Watching the speech, drummer with metal band Suaka John Meredith noted that her words would work well in a death metal song. And in order to prove his theory, he set about recording one. “When I saw her speech, I was very impressed by her passion and outrage”, he tells Rolling Stone. “The words she chose just evoked the darkness of the metal music I love”.
A video he uploaded to YouTube – ‘Greta Thunberg sings Swedish death metal’ – quickly gained viral success. Insisting that there was no intention to mock Thunberg, he goes on: “I guess I didn’t really have a specific intent other than to turn her brutal words into a metal song. My personal stance is that individuals need to do their part to strive to conserve and preserve our environment”.
“Teen angst can be a powerful and important driving force in society”, he adds, “for instance the Arab spring. But there is an element of satire and levity regarding the tone and the music … I think humour and [positive mental attitude] can be at least as powerful as anger and outrage, and there is a place for both”.
In that spirit, Thunberg acknowledged the video by joking on Twitter that: “I have moved on from this climate thing. From now on I will be doing death metal only”.
Well, I assume that’s a joke anyway. Maybe how I opened this story was, in fact, correct. Whooooa-oh-oh intrigue. Watch the video here:
