The global social crises and upheavals of the past several years continue to have a contradictory impact on the artistic output of talented musicians and singers. On the one hand, there is no shortage of highly skilled and empathetic singers and musicians. Several albums and songs in popular music this year make that abundantly clear.
There is also a visible increase in albums and songs that attempt to take up some aspect of the pandemic and attendant social crisis, which has now killed over 25 million people worldwide, and thrown billions…
