Rachel Bloom was fiddling around with songs and sketches for a new musical stand-up special she was hoping to take on the road when the pandemic hit in 2020 and, as she describes it, “the world exploded.”
AP: There is some risk to bringing the pandemic into art — did you worry that people didn’t want to hear about it?
BLOOM: The show is all about the tension of ‘I know you guys don’t want to talk about this,’ and me actually voicing what the audience might be saying, which is ‘don’t talk about the pandemic… no one wants to hear about that.’ We all went through a collective trauma in 2020. If you lost someone, if you didn’t lose someone in lock down, that was a trauma that we need to be talking about. We need to be decompressing.
AP: Has the writing and performing been healing for you? How has it been reliving this live every night? BLOOM: Reliving it live I think scabs it over because it turns it into, I don’t know, it turns it into a story. I think it seals the wound a little bit. It’s also become part of my personal narrative. I think when stuff is really traumatic and in a place I wouldn’t be ready to share, as if something hadn’t sunk in.
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