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"Life During Wartime" is a song by the American new wave band Talking Heads, released as the first single from their 1979 album Fear of Music. [2] It entered the US Billboard Pop Singles Chart on November 3, 1979, and peaked at number 80, spending a total of five weeks on the chart.
AllMusic critic Bill Janovitz describes the song's protagonist as being "another alienated, lost soul seeing a world filtered through his delusions and paranoia," similar to the protagonists in other Talking Heads songs. [2]
It was recorded at locations in New York City during April and May 1979 and was produced by Brian Eno and Talking Heads. The album reached number 21 on the Billboard 200 and number 33 on the UK Albums Chart. It spawned the singles "Life During Wartime", "I Zimbra", and "Cities". Fear of Music received favorable reviews from critics.
According to the AllMusic critic Steve Huey, the lyrics address "the drudgery of living life according to social expectations, and pursuing commonly accepted trophies (a large automobile, beautiful house, beautiful wife)". [10] Although the narrator has these, he questions whether they are real and how he acquired them, a kind of existential ...
A thriving book scene. The number of bookstores in Ukraine has increased from 200 pre-war to almost 500 now. The largest of them, Sens, opened on Kyiv’s main street in the midst of the war.
Life During Wartime, a 2003 collection of short stories by various authors about Bernice Summerfield, a character in the Doctor Who franchise Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Life During Wartime .
Life During Wartime is a 2009 American comedy-drama film written and directed by filmmaker Todd Solondz. The film is a loose sequel to his 1998 film Happiness and 1995 film Welcome to the Dollhouse , with new actors playing the same characters.
[10] On March 6, Miley Cyrus previewed her rendition of "Psycho Killer", a "country twist" on the original with some lyrics changed, at a live event at the Chateau Marmont. [12] On March 28, Lorde's cover of "Take Me to the River", a Talking Heads cover of a song originally recorded by Al Green, was released as the third single. [13]