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By SHARON JENNINGS
Dirty Chime has released the single “Fifty One Fifty,” and it’s the legal-eze for someone who is going to be committed because they’re nuts. It’s funny though because most of us don’t think of ourselves as nuts when we’re in that state of attraction intoxication or being “in love.”
Love has been compared to being in an elevated state, and so who even knows what love really is anymore anyway. Except for the idea that love can make one nuts, there really isn’t too much you can do when you fall “head over heels” for someone. It’s out of our control.
Thomas Clayton, AKA Dirty Chime, writes lyrics from experiences like mental health, medicating and over-medicating and escapism.
“I want the greater takeaway from this song to be that in this day and age, we are all struggling with varying degrees of craziness, that perhaps there can be a humor and a levity to it at times,” Dirty Chime said. “But of course, I want this to be educational as well, to highlight that getting 5150’d is a thing, and to be armed with knowledge in case you have a friend or family member who needs help.”
https://soundcloud.com/dirtychime/fifty-one-fifty
