Succession's Nicholas Braun made an electro-punk song about COVID-19 antibodies—and it rips
Succession’s Cousin Greg is one of the best characters on TV right now, and, if his interviews are any indication, the bumbling amiability that Nicholas Braun brings to the role seems to bleed over into his real life. Consider it something of a surprise, then, that the actor has spent his quarantine downtime recording a supremely goofy electro-punk song about hooking up in the age of coronavirus. It’s called “Antibodies,” and it fucking slays.
In a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, Braun said the song was born out of the anxiety he felt about going on a date in a socially distanced world. “[M]y brain just started turning like, what would make this okay?” he said. “Or what would allow me to go on a social distance walk with somebody? And maybe it’s the antibodies.”
“If you come within six feet, it’s mask on, mask on, mask on, mask on!” he sings, pairing the aggro aggression of nu-metal with the pop-punk sensibilities of Sum 41. “But if you’ve got antibodies, it’s pants off, pants off, pants off!” Braun, citing the punk potential of a word like “antibodies,” says he “knew it had to be in the Blink 182, Papa Roach, POD realm.” Who could disagree?
