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Anonymous
7/3/2025, 3:41:09 AM No.126903572
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Where are the songs about being worried about technology?
Or even mentioning how it's effecting us
Technology is more controlling than ever yet we don't have a Virtual Insanity type song thinking that maybe it's not good
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Anonymous
7/3/2025, 3:41:35 AM No.126903575
>>126903572 (OP)
ayo technology
Anonymous
7/3/2025, 3:42:18 AM No.126903578
the entire ok computer off the top of my head
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Anonymous
7/3/2025, 3:45:40 AM No.126903605
>Technology is more controlling than ever yet we don't have a Virtual Insanity type song thinking that maybe it's not good
every generation has something like this
either it's "Anything Goes" by Cole Porter or "In the year 2525" or "2112" by Rush or "Too Much Time on My Hands" by Styx or "Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads or "It's the End of the World as We Know it" by REM just to name a few
I call it "Societycore" becuase the premise is always just "We live in a society"
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Anonymous
7/3/2025, 3:48:18 AM No.126903628
>>126903578
That album's from 1997
>>126903605
Once in a Lifetime is about wasting time and wondering when things are gonna happen
It has nothing to do with technology
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Anonymous
7/3/2025, 3:49:56 AM No.126903642
>>126903628
>Once in a Lifetime is about wasting time and wondering when things are gonna happen
I always assumed it was a man becoming dissolusioned with being trapped in 1980s Suburban America
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Anonymous
7/3/2025, 3:50:23 AM No.126903647
>>126903642
I'd say it's both
Anonymous
7/3/2025, 3:53:12 AM No.126903673
>>126903578
there’s nothing on the album suggesting tech is the problem. ok computer lamentd consumerism and being a piece of shit, but doesn’t really critique technology
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Anonymous
7/3/2025, 3:58:00 AM No.126903712
>>126903673
I'd argue The Tourist can be interpreted as humanity has to slow down with technology among other things
Anonymous
7/3/2025, 5:36:07 AM No.126904555
>>126903572 (OP)
Automaton is a banger also

https://youtu.be/rmlmOk4ubcU