Spoof I Wonder is a ballad depicting the Ukraine war, ongoing since February 24th, 2022. Kelsie Kimberlain released this single on March 6 of this year. As an American-Ukrainian, she feels it is her duty to continue highlighting the Ukraine war. She says, ‘My performance, both vocally and visually, attempts to express the profound pain and suffering the war has brought not just to Ukrainians but to all civilized people.’
This is Kelsie’s first collaboration with the award-winning photojournalist Andriy Dubchak, who has been working on the front line to showcase the losses of Ukrainians and the horrors they have survived through his lens.
In the background, we hear a melancholic piano, cymbals, and acoustic guitar layered in an anguishing sonata-like melody before it turns around with beats, enhancing the level of frustration in the music along with the sustaining anguish and melancholy. The whole song has a syntactical parallelism, which helps build the emphasis around her defeated queries: “Why is there all this sadness? Why is there all this treachery? Why is there all this hatred?
Though the first sequence of questions ended in a higher intonation, we knew they were rhetorical in their contextual sense. Juxtaposingly, Kelsie ends her last query with a lower intonation, “Who thought of this idea?” which reflects that she knows who thought of it.
Spoof I Wonder is written as a cantata with a mesmerizing take from Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Classical and modern music lovers alike can listen to the song and get lost in the morbid reality portrayed in this musical piece.
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Review By: Naomi Joan