You Are My God. She Said to the Drummer?

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Apr 17, 2026 · 9m

New album release day driving deaths tracked in a Harvard study are linked to the ten biggest album drops between 2017 and 2022. Traffic fatalities rose nearly 15 percent on those days. The culprit was not weather. Not alcohol. Unlocking the phone. Scrolling the tracklist. Finding the song. A researcher drove into oncoming traffic reading a text about a new release and started counting. The answer was 182 additional deaths.

What does it feel like to be the sitting Prime Minister of Japan, standing in front of the drummer from Deep Purple, and saying out loud that he is your god? She listened…