THE LOWDOWN

Whale Song

“The Pink Song? That’s so 1993”
“The Pink Song? That’s so 1993”
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Pop quiz! Who’s the biggest DJ in the world?
Fatboy Slim?

Wow. It never ceases to amaze me how out of touch you are.
Not true. Pete Tong?

OK, maybe you aren’t the right person for this joke. The answer is . . . Humpback Whale!
Gosh, I really am out of touch. I’ve never even heard of him.

No, no. As in an actual humpback whale. Size of a bus. No bigger DJ than that.
Right. I don’t get it . . .

Well, for decades we’ve known that the humpback whale is a deep-sea singer and purveyor of haunting operatic melodies. However, marine scientists in Queensland, Australia, have recently discovered that these ocean giants are partial to a little remix — a whale