{"id":803601,"date":"2020-01-29T12:34:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=945074"},"modified":"2020-01-29T12:34:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:34:31","slug":"three-year-olds-dinosaurs-in-love-song-is-a-real-tearjerker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/three-year-olds-dinosaurs-in-love-song-is-a-real-tearjerker\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Year-Old\u2019s \u2018Dinosaurs in Love\u2019 Song Is a Real Tearjerker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Dinosaur.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>This week, the internet has gifted us with a delightful new stress-reliever in the form of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dinosaurs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dinosaurs\" data-tag=\"dinosaurs\">Dinosaurs<\/a> in Love,\u201d a stirring new viral hit by a \u201cnearly 4-year-old\u201d singer-songwriter named Fenn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDinosaurs eating people\/Dinosaurs in love,\u201d Fenn croons over an emotional piano line, provided by her father, musician Tom Rosenthal. He posted the song to Twitter on Tuesday after composing it with his daughter for fun. Inevitably, the love song turns into a tragedy, as the \u201cbig bang\u201d comes and the lovers perish. \u201cDinosaurs fell in love\/But they didn\u2019t say goodbye,\u201d Fenn finishes, somehow tapping into the universal experience of longing and loss in a few simple phrases.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.279863481229\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fenn, my nearly 4 year old daughter, recorded her first ever solo song today. She came up with all the words herself and I helped her a little bit with the tune. It\u2019s called \u2018Dinosaurs in Love\u2019. \ud83e\udd95\u2764\ufe0f\ud83e\udd95 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/erCgG0sUvP\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/erCgG0sUvP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Rosenthal (@tomrosenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomrosenthal\/status\/1222242112307187712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">January 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At press time, this stirring track had racked up more than 40,000 retweets \u2014 including one from London\u2019s Natural History Museum. It\u2019s been listened to close to a million times since it was posted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think she\u2019s got a really good sense of timing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/01\/29\/uk\/viral-dinosaur-song-gbr-scli-intl\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Rosenthal told CNN<\/a>. \u201cShe can just about count to 20 so she doesn\u2019t really get it if I say that half a million people have listened to the song. I told her that her grandma liked it and she wasn\u2019t that fussed about that. She enjoyed doing it, she listened to it when it was done and then she was gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A true artist knows that even the greatest works are ephemeral. As Kansas says, \u201cAll we are is dust in the wind.\u201d Much like the dinosaurs in question.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dinosaurs-in-love-song-fenn-945074\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the internet has gifted us with a delightful new stress-reliever in the form of \u201cDinosaurs in Love,\u201d a stirring new viral hit by a \u201cnearly 4-year-old\u201d singer-songwriter named Fenn. \u201cDinosaurs eating people\/Dinosaurs in love,\u201d Fenn croons over an emotional piano line, provided by her father, musician Tom Rosenthal. He posted the song to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 07:51:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}