Cuomo wasn’t familiar with the album — he grew up idolizing Kiss and Van Halen — but loved it as soon as he heard it. “I’m so jealous of that guy’s voice,” he says of Nilsson, who died in 1994. “It seems like he can open his mouth and sing anything, and just the sound of his breath going through his vocal cords is beautiful.That all-in attitude is typical of Cuomo.
As earnest as it is, “OK Human” bears traces of Cuomo’s slipperiness. “I’ll give you an example,” he says. “It’s super-disillusioning, but I think it demonstrates that a song can be both totally personalIn “Playing My Piano,” the narrator sings about resenting Zoom interviews because they cut into the time he has to make music; in Cuomo’s mind, though, the interviews actually represent the music that’s distracting him from the programming he says he’d rather be doing.
“I wanted to explain to Sam how to not get sucked into it.” The song’s original chorus, he claims: “Don’t go on Reddit.” “To have our voices coming out of a robot vacuum somehow promoting an album called ‘OK Human’” — the title riffs on Radiohead’s technophobic “OK Computer” — “to me that feels less like brand integration than a work of art unto itself,” he says.
The new album (due Friday) sets frontman RiversCuomo's inner thoughts against lush but faintly haunting orchestral arrangements, says mikaelwood. (Unlike “Pinkerton,” though, “OK Human” doesn't come from a place of emotional trauma)
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