REALLY IMPORTANT PSA
THE 52 HERTZ WHALE HAS A FRIEND.
HE IS NOT THE LONELIEST WHALE IN THE WORLD.
MARINE SCIENTISTS HEARD TWO 52 HERTZ CALLS WITHIN TEN MINUTES OF ONE ANOTHER OFF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA.
I REPEAT: HE HAS A FRIEND. SOMEONE CALLED BACK.
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here’s the story behind our latest single, The Loneliest Whale 🐋🛸👽🖤✨
it’s a story in three parts
the first verse is about the loneliest whale. in the 80s, there was a scientist who picked up a weird signal on one of her machines. eventually, she realized that it was the song from a blue whale. what was weird about it was that it was at 52hz, whereas most blue whales songs are at around 20hz.
since this blue whale has such a unique signal, scientists have been able to track it over the years. and they’ve noticed that the whale is always alone — they never pick up the 52hz whale song with the song of another whale. scientists believe this is because the signals are so different. the loneliest whale can’t hear the whale song of other blue whales, and they can’t hear him.
when I learned about the loneliest whale, I immediately thought about aliens. we’re kind of in a similar boat — we’ve been sending out signals and we’ve never gotten a response. are we alone in the universe? or are we just at the wrong frequency? either way, we’re functionally alone. that’s the second verse.
the third verse brings it back to a personal level, and is about how being human is inherently lonely. no matter how well you know another person, you’ll never really know what it’s like to be them.
the short answer is that the song is about loneliness.
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The World’s Loneliest Whale Sings the Loudest Song
I won’t make metaphors out of fish.
If I have to die, I choose the ocean.
If I have to live, I choose you.
You: Everyone I’ve ever mourned.
I believe less & less of sunlight these days.
I won’t die alone.
To awaken crying is to awaken displaced.
Ghost of your joy in the bathtub.
A face in the mirror.
Your nephew’s painting in the foyer.
My mother cried in bedrooms growing up.
I would study her for hours. In a study,
researchers learned patients who cried less
are likely to have dismissive attachment styles.
Today, every bedroom in the house is mine.
I stopped crying at age 12.
As a child, I spoke a language no one
understood.
Research suggests loneliness increases
cardiovascular disease.
When my cousin died, she died alone.
When the world collapsed around Darwish,
he wrote of coffee and sex.
When you held my body close to yours,
I thought of clementines, sweet citrus,
all the world’s lemons we’d temper with
honey.
The world’s loneliest whale sings the loudest
song.
This is what you’ll tell me the first time we
meet.
And I’ll think about the ocean.
And I’ll think about you.
I never learned how to swim.
I’ve been drowning my whole life.
Studies suggest drowning lasts 1-3 minutes.
But I’ll never stop grieving.
Scientists are still searching for the 52-hertz
whale.
But I swear he’s here.
In my bedroom.
And I can hear him.
And he’s telling me I can stop.
Noor Hindi
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Already if I think about whales for too long I cry tears of beauty and joy and then Wikipedia introduced me to 52 hertz whale and I'm genuinely like bawling rn
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