Danny Elfman Running on a Treadmill (2020, Social Isolation ver. )

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 nothing. Like everyone else, I was stunned and a little shellshocked. I decided to return to an orchestral commission, but I found that my focus was also whacked from everything turning upside down. Weirdly, as I struggled though those first few weeks, an old tune I had written decades ago began running though 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 pleasure. 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 decided finally to share it with everyone. It s silly and simple. Playing everything and singing live to my backing tracks. This thing is funky