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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
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

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Track nine on [*Masks and Monsters*](/albums/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 $d*](/albums/dragon-ball-d/), [*$WAMI$*](/albums/wami/), and later [*Hold Up*](/songs/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*](/songs/flip-flop-phil/), less PSA than [*Wash Your Fucking Hands*](/songs/wash-your-fucking-hands/). Babidi brings collaborator warmth back into the LP after eight Luke-alone tracks. Pairs with [*Snuggle With Shaggy*](/songs/snuggle-with-shaggy/) as the voice-on-the-line version. Next on the album: [*My Mind Is Slowly Slipping*](/songs/my-mind-is-slowly-slipping/), the second Babidi co-write here.

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