Canada keeps rewarding the loudest voices while ignoring the people quietly carrying the load.
“Ballast” is about the workers, builders, parents, tradespeople, caregivers, and ordinary Canadians who keep showing up without applause. They do not dominate every conversation. They do not demand constant attention. They simply do the work that keeps everything from falling apart.
The song follows a weathered harbour worker as a brightly painted empty barrel becomes the centre of attention while the real vessel begins to sink behind it.
The barrel gets the cameras.
The worker gets the weight.
The empty always float, but the heavy hold the deep.
This is not a song about hating people who are struggling. It is about a culture that increasingly mistakes noise for value, outrage for contribution, and attention for merit.
When the water finally gets steep, which one are you?
🎵 Song: Ballast
🎤 Artist: The Weird Canadian
🎬 Official Music Video
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Wish I could upvote more - that's a good tune. I'm really curious to know how much of the song is your input vs. how much is Ai. You should do a "Making of" video so we can get a feeling for what the human element is in this song. I know it doesn't really matter - and maybe you just want people to focus on the song itself and not how it's made, but it also kind of does matter. Some of us really ache for human connection and music is definitely a way to connect your brain to my brain across time and space.
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It's kind of hard to showcase me just coming up with lyrics XD
Maybe when I have some time in the future I will showcase how I go through all of this but a lot of it is just write my lyrics, write out the style I want, press a button, sit and wait, tune then repeat
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