SICKSENSE, die Band um die beiden Vokalisten Vicky Psarakis und Robby J. Fonts von Stuck Mojo, planen den Release ihrer nächsten vier-Track EP, namens “Funerals“ für den 25. September. Mit der Ankündigung ist auch der erste Song, `Artificial Irrelevance`, als Video-Single erschienen.
Robby J. Fonts schreibt über die Auskopplung:
“It’s a social commentary on modern internet culture.The song points out the phoniness of people’s online personas. They present themselves one way, when in reality they live and act differently. They become addicted to being someone they aren’t and obsessed with superficial numbers from the engagement they receive online.“
und Vicky Psarakis fügt hinzu:
„How much social media has altered people’s lives isn’t anything new. We’re all addicted to our phones, stuck constantly doom scrolling and searching for dopamine hits and validation from the internet space.“
Videostream:
Lyrics:
This is the end of the line
Seeking truth is a crime
When freedom once was a choice
Now it’s a sin to speak up with your voice
Plug you in and cut you out
A second guess, another doubt
Superficial significance
Meets artificial irrelevance
Sliver through a silver zipper
Gonna make you shake and quiver
What you want, I gon deliver
Nothing but another figure
Ergo elegant elephant
Ever so irrelevant
We do it for the hell of it
Dropping monetary status litter
Ain’t nothing but a flitter
Teeter-titter-tatter
With a matter to be flattered
Got your ego deflating
Via soulless penetrating
Now you’re hyperventilating
As I get to demonstrating
So I teach within reach
Every leech I beseech
Stuck on the dead web of lies
Tangled minds, that you read
Got your fat fed right with a lead head
Super lame, pitiful
Everything’s digital
Nothing is literal
Just doom scroll visceral
It’s superficial
It’s artificial
Traded a life of normalcy
For your dopamine
The disconnect is freeing
Limitless is the feeling
Take a hit from the other side
We’re all depressed just to feel alive
A stare of empty eyes
Waiting for the punchline
This life’s a joke
With the quick fix plugs
This sick and twisted vile excuse you
Use to justify your
Existence is undeserving
Unnerving, what it’s serving
Is disgusting, obnoxious, it’s toxic
It is everything around us
Surrounds us
It’s superficial significance
Meets artificial irrelevance
Traded a life of normalcy
For your dopamine
The disconnect is freeing
Limitless is the feeling
Take a hit from the other side
We’re all depressed just to feel alive
A stare of empty eyes
Waiting for the punchline
The life you lead is a fallacy
A pitiful attempt at what you think
Is true humanity
Glued to a screen
I’m one with the void
I can’t ignore the depravity disparity
Are you done?
I’m losing sleep
It’s getting hard to concentrate
I need a fix
Hallelujah
Something holy
Therapeutical
Amen to the delusional
By myself
But you’re never alone
Creeping up
A devil on my shoulder
Festering, it’s dormant, abhorrent
Now it’s a torrent
Whisper in my ear
Are you ready to explode?
Cock the gun and blow a load
That’ll solve all of your problems
Pull the trigger
Go
Traded a life of normalcy
For your dopamine
The disconnect is freeing
Limitless is the feeling
Take a hit from the other side
We’re all depressed just to feel alive
A stare of empty eyes
Waiting for the punchline
It’s superficial
It’s artificial
Funerals Trackliste
Newsflash
Seller’s Remorse
Artificial Irrelevance
A Moment Of Violence