Vid: "Or the opposite, there was part of that audience that didn't want to know nothing about a song, about coming together over what was this COVID crisis.
That marketplace there were definitely a political divide, and the song was not political.
And I'm being bluntly honest, but I walked into a brick wall with folks that said: I don't want a song on my radio station that talks about that. So you know so again I wrote a topical record, not a political record."
1. Jon said that before: “I say it’s topical instead of political... that I don’t take sides”
2. About Do What You Can he mentioned something about the mask in the past: "Well, I turned the record in and then Covid happened and shut the world down. So I knew that if I was gonna have a topical record in 2020, I better write a Covid song. That’s ‘Do What you Can.’
I was inspired by the health care workers, the students who sacrificed, the grocery store clerk who became an essential worker, the caregiver, the unsung heroes who stepped up to help their neighbors and those who simply wore a mask, not because it was a political tool but because it was a sign of respect for their fellow man.
Then of course the George Floyd incident hit, BLM, so then I sat down to write ‘American Reckoning’ and, finally, at that time I said Amen, the album is now complete. I took the two, let’s call them love songs, off the record and put on ‘Do What You Can’ and ‘American Reckoning’ and I said now there is my 2020.")