"Dinosaurs In Love" is the saddest, sweetest song I've heard in a while

Songwriter Tom Rosenthal had a tweet go viral last week, featuring a short song he'd written in a few takes with his 4-year-old daughter Fenn:

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. Its called Dinosaurs in Love. pic.twitter.com/erCgG0sUvP

— Tom Rosenthal (@tomrosenthal) January 28, 2020

Dinosaurs eating peopleDinosaurs in loveDinosaurs having a partyThey eat fruit and cucumber

They fell in loveThey say "Thank you"

A Big Bang came and they diedDinosaurs, dinosaurs fell in loveBut they didn't say "goodbye"But they didn't say "goodbye"

The song exploded so quickly that even Spotify asked for an official release date. Which shouldn't be surprising, because it's obviously brilliant.

"I genuinely couldn't tell you why she wanted to do a song about dinosaurs," Rosenthal told Buzzfeed. "She's got no particular affiliation with dinosaurs at all. They're not something she particularly cares about or not, this is just what was in her head at the time."

He went to explain the father-daughter creative process: "In terms of her singing and her timing, nothing's altered, but it's done in a couple of sections. She's by the microphone, she's got the headphones on, she starts singing, and she does as much as she can. And then eventually after she's done enough little bits of it, it kind of all fits together. Read the rest