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Quarantine and Chill
Metadata
- title
- Quarantine and Chill
- meaning
- Pandemic phone call with Babidi: checking in, your voice makes me sing: gotta chill through the quarantine, call me back when it's over and I'm running back to you.
- year
- 2020
- release
- Masks and Monsters
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- coWriters
- J MESA
- credits
- Written by Luke Francis Walton and J MESA (Taylor James / Babidi). Performed by Scoobert Doobert with Babidi. Mixed and mastered by Luke Francis Walton. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations.
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/13zzM1QEnrvJ7kRwUGNIFw
- officialVideo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZDnLz44-kE
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/quarantine-and-chill-feat-babidi/1526427944?i=1526428030
- themes
- pandemic
- lockdown
- Masks and Monsters
- Babidi
- distance
- love
- isrc
- QZK6P2060454
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
Calling Checking in to see How you're doing today Your voice makes me sing I'm just calling Wondering if you found a place That was safe Feeling crazy I know Every day is a mystery Don't know what you're gonna do How we're gonna live this way Through the sickness And the social pain Of the quarantine Ooo Gotta chill Gotta chill Through the quarantine Call me back When you know That when this is over I'm running back to you What'd you think that I say Every day is a mystery Don't know what you're gonna do How we gonna live this way Feeling all the people Feeling misery But through the sickness And the social pain Of the quarantine Quarantine
Content
Track nine on Masks and Monsters, feat. Babidi (Taylor James / J MESA). Co-written and performed with Luke Francis Walton, North Park lockdown, August 2020. Same collaborator orbit as Dragon Ball $d, $WAMI$, and later Hold Up on Big Hug: a cartoon-era feature voice on the pandemic record.
It plays as a phone check-in, the distance call as lifeline, with safety and sanity both in question (wondering if you found a place that was safe, feeling crazy, I know). The hook makes the meme title sincere, rewriting Netflix and chill into survival instruction: gotta chill through the quarantine. The bridge defers the reunion with a promise and a self-aware punchline (when this is over, I'm running back to you, what'd you think that I say), and widens past the couple to collective grief: feeling all the people, feeling misery.
Less character-comedy than Flip Flop Phil, less PSA than Wash Your Fucking Hands. Babidi brings collaborator warmth back into the LP after eight Luke-alone tracks. Pairs with Snuggle With Shaggy as the voice-on-the-line version. Next on the album: My Mind Is Slowly Slipping, the second Babidi co-write here.