Michael Stipe unveiled the music video for his new collaboration with Big Red Machine, "No Time For Love Like Now" on Thursday (June 11).
In the song's violet-hued visual, the R.E.M. frontman delivers a vocal take in the studio as he looks back on all the small things society took for granted before the days that words such as "quarantine," "social distancing" and "coronavirus" became part of the everyday lexicon. "There’s no time for dancing/ There’s no time for undecideds/ No time for love like now/ Where did this all begin to change/ The lockdown memories can’t sustain/ This glistening, hanging free fall," he sings over a synth-heavy orchestration led by Justin Vernon and The National's Aaron Dessner. "'No Time for Love Like Now' was