Flooded with online hate, the musician corook decided to keep swimming

Flooded with online hate, the musician corook decided to keep swimming Enlarge this image Libby Danforth/Atlantic Records Libby Danforth/Atlantic Records corook was having a bad day. "My girlfriend was supporting me and wanted to do something to make me feel better and decided: 'Let's write a song about it, let's make like a really weird song. Originally a 49-second TikTok, corook goes on to sing about rocks and socks, followed by the question that started it all: "Why's everybody on the internet so mean?" corook YouTube "I think that using an upbeat tone to talk about something serious is kind of my specialty.. And whenever I figured out that I could do that in music, it just felt like a really big missing puzzle piece for me," they say.