‘Don’t only write about viruses for the next two years’: Comedian Tim Minchin urges musicians to find inspiration in subjects other than COVID-19 and not assume it’s their ‘business’ to comment
Tim Minchin has urged musicians to find inspiration outside of the coronavirus pandemic.
The 44-year-old performer told The Daily Telegraph that he dreads hearing endless tracks about the virus.
The Triple J host said: ‘I hope we don’t all only write about viruses for the next two years’.
Over it? Tim Minchin (pictured) has urged musicians to find inspiration outside of the coronavirus pandemic
He added that perhaps the opinion of musicians isn’t needed on the topic.
Tim said: ‘I think there is this quite modern post-internet tendency for everyone to suddenly think that their opinion on COVID-19… is their business.’
The comedian went on to say that that he hopes musicians do something more creative like ‘write their space opera or their circus thriller.’
The Triple J host said: ‘I hope we don’t all only write about viruses for the next two years’
‘I think we have just got to put out art. Our job is not always to have our arms elbow deep in the mud of contemporary politics, it is to transcend it’, he concluded.
It comes after Tim said Scott Morrison does not deserve credit for Australia’s successful response to coronavirus.
The left-wing comedian released a song this week criticising the Prime Minister for going on holiday to Hawaii during the bushfire crisis and ‘fumbling’ in coronavirus press conferences.
Creative: The comedian went on to say that that he hopes musicians do something more creative like ‘write their space opera or their circus thriller’
Minchin agreed that Australia has done remarkably well to ‘flatten the curve’ and reduce the infection rate since it spiked at 460 new cases on 28 March.
But, in an interview on the Today show, he said Mr Morrison should not be praised.
‘I don’t think any leader would have failed to do what he’s done in the last couple of weeks because he’s just taking advice from people,’ he said.
‘The credit doesn’t go to Scott, it goes to everyone.’
Tim said: ‘I think there is this quite modern post-internet tendency for everyone to suddenly think that their opinion on COVID-19… is their business’
