Danny Elfman Sings Oingo Boingo’s “Running on a Treadmill“ song Live From Home 4/20/20

Get Danny Elfman & Tim Burton’s Music Box! “When we started our isolation, I found myself out of sorts (like most of us surely did). My energy was very low. I had poured so much of myself into preparing for Coachella, and suddenly... nothing. Like everyone else, I was stunned and a little shell-shocked. I decided to return to an orchestral commission, but I found that my fucus was also whacked from everything turning upside down. Weirdly, as I struggled through those first few weeks, an old tune I had written decades ago began running through my mind. I didn’t know why, but it didn’t go away. Eventually I decided not to resist and laid down tracks, just for the simple pleasaure. It’s really almost like a nursery rhyme. Maybe under all that stress that’s why it came back to me, and just the act of recording it was really calming for my brain. I decide finally to share it with everyone. It’s silly and simple. Playing everything and singing live to my backing tracks. This things is fun
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