Michael Bay has out-Michael Bay-ed himself with Songbird, a tone deaf film that’s about the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s perhaps an understatement to say that Michael Bay isn’t the most subtle of filmmakers when it comes to, well, anything really. Just watch his latest film, 6 Underground, and try not to facepalm.
But boy did he really drop the ball this time as he’s gone from loud and proud to straight up insensitive with his latest film Songbird, a dystopian film where the COVID-19 virus has mutated and everyone is living in a world of chaos.
Yes, Bay actually went there. He may have only produced Songbird (Adam Mason directed it) but his fingerprints are all over it.
Let’s quickly go through the basic plot of Songbird before we rip into it. Set in 2024, a hypothetical future where COVID-19 has mutated and killed over 8 million people in 12 months, the film revolves around a young couple, Nico (K.J. Apa) and Sara (Sofia Carson), who get separated and are trying to get back to each other, all while dealing with all the chaos surrounding them.
2020 has already felt like a dystopia thanks to COVID-19 wrecking havoc upon the world, and having a horror-thriller film about the pandemic that depicts an even more terrifying version of what we’re living through is just unsavoury.
There’s something being tone deaf and insensitive, but Songbird somehow manages to eclipse that by quite a margin.
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Quality productions like GLOW were canned because of the pandemic, yet Songbird somehow manages to exist. Talk about injustice.
Right now there’s no release date for this stupid Michael Bay-produced COVID-19 film yet other than a 2021 release window, but I have no interest in when this will see the light of day.
Having said that, there is a trailer and it’s as mind-numbingly ridiculous as you think it is. All you need to know is that the talented cast is wasted in this unnecessary production and it’s packed with all the usual Michael Bay-eqsue tropes – i.e dumb characters, ludicrous dialogue, and explosions.
Check out the trailer to Songbird aka that idiotic Michael Bay COVID-19 film:
