I have to admit I used to have a certain crush on disaster movies when I was younger. Whether it was about aliens blowing up the planet (Independence Day), asteroids hitting us (Armageddon) or simply monsters breaking free and destroying humans (Godzilla, Jurassic Park). What does that say about me? Maybe Daniela Weinmann can explain. Her first new song as Odd Beholder since Transatlantic Flight from late 2019 is called Disaster Movies and it deals exactly with the problem of facing the actual destruction of our planet … not by any monster or cosmic catastrophe but via humanity itself (which is an incredibly sad realization). The floating piece of dreamy synthpop tells the story of two protagonists who recall that movie fascination from their teenage days (when you sometimes want your home town to simply burn down) only to realize that there’s nothing glamourous about an actual catastrophe. It really makes you think and it’s a stunning return from an artist who gave us so much joy in the past. Weinmann also funded the Swiss edition of Music Declares Emergency and since I did the same with the German edition I sense a natural connection here – two disaster movie fans trying to prevent an actual disaster from happening. Feel kindly invited to join us. A new Odd Beholder album called Sunny Bay will arrive later this year.