![]() ![]() When The Loves of Your Life was announced Leithauser shared a lyric video for a new song from it, “Isabella.” He also shared a teaser video for the song in which New York-based singer/songwriter Maggie Rogers gave him a haircut and made him cry. So today this song goes out to all the gamblers, betters, troubled souls, long-lost friends, and sad-sack day-traders who can’t face logging in. Eventually, I stopped trading, because the house always wins. I guess I could have called it ‘Don’t Login’ but I think there’s a lot more nobility in a sports metaphor than a day trading metaphor. Anyhow, the title is a metaphor for looking the other way, or avoiding an inconvenient truth. In reality you’d just be biting your nails thinking of nothing else…definitely not working. ![]() When things looked sour, you’d say ‘don’t login!’ Out of sight, out of mind-sort of. It took like 45 seconds to login to the website to check your bet (hopefully you’d made like $55 or something). This was around 2001, so we only had a dial up connection on one shared computer. It was incredibly fun when you were up, and not as fun when you were down. Instead of working, we would gamble all day. It can be done from your home (or work) computer. When I used to work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, my friend introduced me to ‘day trading’ which is just compulsive gambling on the stock market. Maybe it was a rocky road and weird goodbye, but you’d like them to know you’re still in their corner. Leithauser had this to say about the song in a press release: “Hi - Today I am releasing my new song ‘Don’t Check the Score.’ It’s about rooting for an old estranged friend. Now he has shared another song from it, “Don’t Check the Score.” He has also shared another funny teaser video for the album, this one featuring actress Sienna Miller. ![]() Hamilton Leithauser (formerly of The Walkmen) is releasing a new album, The Loves of Your Life, on April 10 via Glassnote. ![]()
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