Tame Impala - Why Won't They Talk To Me? (2020)
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On 23 October 2020, Kevin Parker recorded a live version of his 2012 song "Why Won't They Talk To Me?" (2020) and posted the video on YouTube. The track is from Tame Impala's second full-length album, Lonerism (2012). This project was one of the most unexpected of that year and the most exciting because, by making the most of the available technology, the album touched the progressive and experimental spirit of psychedelic rock, not just the sound!
A little bit about the meaning of composition
A raw, frank and candid demonstration of the rollercoaster train of thought and emotion that accompanies rejection and wounded self-esteem ... How to make sense of it all and deal with that painful feeling of realising you are no longer wanted, or at all?
Kevin Parker seamlessly leads us through the lonely inner process of trying to make sense of the world and ourselves once again with bruised egos and dashed hopes that disrupt a holistic view of life ...
With its extended, musically and lyrically progressive beginning, the song takes us from the initial confessional "I'm so lonely" to the dismissive "I don't need them and I don't want them."
I think I'll go home, try to stay sane, try to pretend none of this happened," in the same breath as the self-pitying "Lonely old me." This escalates into cathartic outbursts of hurt feelings and demands for sincere answers and repetition of "Why won't they talk to me?"

The song is an honest, unpretentious exercise in the fluctuating feelings associated with being banished and left alone with a tormented ego... Resentment, disappointment and pain lie beneath the surface, especially pronounced with the repeated but subtly confessional, "I thought I was happy...".
He runs away, but he can't hide from his wounded, bruised ego, his threatening sense of himself and the world, so he screams ...