Yorktown's KRISTKO Leaves it to the Listener to 'Extrapolate' her New Song

To a lot of us, the United States has become recognizable. So we are left to cry out and plead for sanity. Anyway we can, our voice demands to be heard, and despite what seems almost futile, KRISTKO joins the chorus in her new song.

The forbidding of Extrapolate ushers a beat in and stretches the melody along like its searching for a light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately, darkness is the only thing that extends, and the persistent virtual sleight of hand begins our inability to dig out.

To be at war with the views/Across the world lets review /Simple ideas can disrupt the eye/Is there a way not to be undermined?

Exasperation clearly comes across in KRISTKO's wanting vocals and clarifies the sentiment. In other words, when completely illegitimate points of view get a hearing on Social Media, the entire discourse goes out the window. Thank you Mark Zuckerberg, hello Donald Trump, and by default, his catastrophic handling of Covid-19.

To stay or go, the leadership that’s known/Statistics imply real cause that’s simplified.

So the President dumbs everything down and too much of the nation inexplicable follows. 220,000 deaths later, Trumps gets a pass and for good measure, the divide he’s after plays out on our computer screens.

Consuming that seems to ride on/Where we joke, piss and fight on.

Extrapolate Video

On the other hand, Extrapolate took root off a Facebook post. KRISTKO asked followers for a single word, and she pledged to write a song for each. This computation is the one that took root and flowered into song.

The title not actually among the lyrics, the next stanza expresses a frustration in which the necessary skill of extrapolation has no chance. As a result, democracy is simply out of reach.

We’ve come a long way/Why are real facts not here to stay?/The short circuit of the brains of the idiocracy that remains.

I hesitate here - even if I often succumb to the same mindset. “We are a nation of idiots,” I can’t help myself.

But then you go out and actually meet those idiots (who by the way, also think you are an idiot). They work, they have families and get through their days just like you. Thus, they can't really be idiots.

So I’m not quite in line with what I believe KRISTKO is extrapolating, but that works just fine for her. “I don’t want to explain the lyrics, it’s to be interpreted,” she asserted.

On the other hand, we end up in the same place. Short-circuited in kind, my disarray takes over because the lunacy of the opposition is beyond me. The refrain doubles down the sentiment, and protests and unrest abound, the Extrapolate video reinforces our disbelief.

Either way, we are at a loss and left floundering. Of course, KRISTKO’s got the words for us.

What’s the point of complaints?/It all seems to remain/Are those thoughts compromised?/Without a clear view in sight?

So all in despair, a chorus joins the pain in KRISTKO’s voice. Mark Dylan, L’Marco, Destiny Autumn and Natica lend their voices, and Extrapolate lets us know we are not alone.

Ironically, each piece was recorded in the respective quarantines of her cohorts, and KRISTKO mixed and produced at home.

Nonetheless, the beat and melody meander to a close and again feels like there’s no end in sight. At least, that’s my extrapolation.

Unfortunately, KRISTKO’s ending whine spirals us down and out and seems to agree. But will know soon enough. Either we turn the corner or heaven knows what we will have to extrapolate as KRISTKO’s song is there to reminds us.

Extrapolate will be released on streaming platforms on Friday, November 6, 2020

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