The peculiar history of people breaking into song
5 min readApr 1, 2021
Like most everyone these days, I consume a lot of media but forget the finer points of the enjoyed thing once the consumption’s done. I blank on the name of the author whose op-ed I re-tweeted only hours before; I forget the title of the book I was mad about last week. But I remember every second of a French film I saw in 2001.
