Washington, D.C. - April 07, 2009

Songular Sensation

“The Song Is You,” by Arthur Phillips

Boy spends all his time with his buds, boy falls in love, boy tries to reconcile buds and girl. A classic tale.

But things get a little weirder when it turns out that those buds are earbuds and the romance is almost exclusively virtual.

Welcome to Arthur Phillips’s The Song Is You, a daringly original look at love in the age of online music.

The saga follows Julian Donahue, a broken man whose wife left him after their infant son died. Weaving song titles into his narration, Julian chronicles his less-than-love affair with a young Irish singer carried on from afar via texts and cell phone videos.

Julian has a High Fidelity-style relationship with music, relating it to different periods of his life as his situation with the singer darkens.

It’s the ultimate MP3-some.

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