This is the first single Anohni released from her album Hopelessness. Upon its release, she posted this message through social media:
In solidarity with the climate conference in Paris,
giving myself a good hard look,
not my aspirations but my behaviors,
revealing my insidious complicity.
It’s a wh...
[Chorus]
It's only 4 degrees, it's only 4 degrees
It's only 4 degrees, it's only 4 degrees
It's only 4 degrees, it's only 4 degrees
It's only 4 degrees, it's only 4 degrees
[Verse 1]
I wanna see this world, I wanna see it boil
I wanna see this world, I wanna see it boil
It's only 4 degrees, it's only 4 degrees
It's only 4 degrees, it's only 4 degrees
[Verse 2]
I wanna hear the dogs crying for water
I wanna see the fish go belly-up in the sea
And all those lemurs and all those tiny creatures
I wanna see them burn, it's only 4 degrees
[Verse 3]
And all those rhinos and all those big mammals
I wanna see them lying, crying in the fields
I want to see them, I want to see them burn
I want to see them, I want to see them burn
[Chorus]
I wanna see them burn, it's only 4 degrees
I wanna see them burn, it's only 4 degrees
I wanna see them burn, it's only 4 degrees
[Post-Chorus]
I wanna burn them, I wanna burn them
I wanna burn them, I wanna burn them
[Verse 4]
I wanna burn the sky, I wanna burn the breeze
I wanna see the animals die in the trees
[Chorus]
Ooh, let's go, let's go, it's only 4 degrees
Ooh, let's go, let's go, it's only 4 degrees
Ooh, let's go, let's go, it's only 4 degrees
Ooh, let's go, let's go, it's only 4 degrees
[Post-Chorus]
I wanna burn them, I wanna burn them
I wanna burn them
4 Degrees was written by ANOHNI.
4 Degrees was produced by Hudson Mohawke & Oneohtrix Point Never.
ANOHNI imagines the apocalypse through the unsentimental death of the world’s creatures. Lemurs, fish, dogs, the animals in the trees—they all die. They are victims of our uncaring lifestyles because, as she sings, to “want to see this world” is to participate in its slow annihilation.
“I have grown tired of grieving for humanity, and I also thought I was not being entirely honest by pretending that I am not a part of the problem,” she said. “’4 DEGREES' is kind of a brutal attempt to hold myself accountable, not just valorize my intentions, but also reflect on the true impact of...