The Screams Will Be Real

Hanni El Khatib “Gonna Die Alone”

I feel like the phrase “die alone” is most commonly associated with being a frustrated single person, but this song by Hanni El Khatib goes to a darker place than that. This is more about paranoia, and feeling like everyone is out to get you one way or another, and just wondering when it’s all going to finally end. There’s a bit of humor in this – you can tell he’s smirking in some lines, and the tone of the music is fairly loose and fun. But despite that, the core of this really is anxiety and terror, and this powerful feeling that you have no control over your destiny, and that no one is willing to help you. It’s an incredibly fatalistic tune, but pretty funky too.

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