But any song entitled ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ is going to attract my attention, and that’s the case for a song by Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp-Muhl’s musical adventure aka Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger.
The song has a melancholic and quiet melody with nice vocal harmonies and acoustic guitar, and it is almost going somewhere without really reaching a satisfying place, whereas the chorus keeps repeating the philosophical declaration ‘Like a tree that falls alone in the woods without a sound, I can’t be sure that I exist when you are not around’.
In the video, Sean is dressed up as Che Guevara and Charlotte as Joan of Arc, and they are surrounded by a collection of historical figures, Marilyn Monroe, Einstein, Nikola Telsa, Charlie Chaplin, Marie Antoinette, Hamlet, Woody Allen among others
Is it a little too pretentious? On their album there is another song with ‘dark matter’ in the title, and all these references to modern physics make me wonder if musicians just use those to impress a little bit their public, or if this song has really something to do with the big question of quantum entanglement. I don’t always see the connection with this all-star cast though…
But who knows, may be the whole song is just a metaphor to describe their mutual love, like two particles which mutually define their state according to the other one… a little too intellectual for you or not? Watch the video here: