The World Is a Goner

About the Album

“The World is a Goner” is a song from the newest album coming from Diane and the Gentle Men. Written at home during a pandemic, the song came about from looking for alternate ideas for creativity, while dancing around my house by myself in an effort to feel alive and well. We sometimes take for granted that when we are out and about on a daily basis, inspiration is endless. Being forced to stay indoors for a longer period of time allowed me to venture down a rabbit hole of podcasts, You Tube documentaries, old radio programs and television programs of yesteryear. The song emerged when I was feeling content about being locked in and lonely, seeing the world through a window and being grateful I wasn’t sleeping on the street. Like the cover, the crooked dilapidate house not wanting to fall, I found other Influence from old films, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Otis Redding, and of course, The Kinks. I got to work the song up with Derek Cruz (Jesse Malin band) for a live broadcast I was working on and then when things felt a little more safe, we went out to Atomic in Brooklyn with the other guys in Jesse’s band and put down the song. My other players were unavailable at the time because of the pandemic (they have kids). I am grateful to Derek, James, Randy and Rob for their musicianship and of course for Malin and his never ending support and generosity, not to mention Merle and Geoff for their genius.