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          "title": "I Am a Slave to the Yeast",
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          "title": "Why, How, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah",
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          "title": "Mystery Machine",
          "song": "mystery-machine"
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        {
          "title": "Derrida Makes a Différance",
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          "outlet": "Masks, Monsters, and Memes: Max Horwich (Critical Meme Reader)",
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          "outlet": "Last Day Deaf",
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          "outlet": "Neon Music",
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        {
          "outlet": "Glasse Factory",
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          "title": "möbius . spuǝ ʇᴉ ʍoɥ ʇoN",
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          "outlet": "Beformer — Indie Covers & Feel Good (Instagram)",
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          "outlet": "Beformer — Feels So Good Spotify playlist adds (Instagram)",
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          "outlet": "Riptide Magazine",
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      "hostNote": "\"Every mix shouldn't be the same; every vocal chain shouldn't be programmed by Dave Pensado.\" That's the line I kept returning to after NAMM 2023, where everyone had bold takes about AI replacing mix engineers. The gap between what top engineers said and what ML researchers said was striking, and it comes down to who's looking at the problem from the top down versus the bottom up.\n\nI weigh in on the \"top 5% stays human, 95% gets automated\" claim, what Waves' repeated subscription pivots actually signal about where the money is, and how Splice is approaching AI differently. Routine mixing getting automated is real, but routine mixing was never the interesting part.\n\nThe question I care most about is where creative decisions live, and why outsourcing those to a model trained on consensus is a fundamentally different move than outsourcing gain staging.\n",
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          "text": "Artificial intelligence and what it's going to do to audio engineering. So everybody had these really bold takes.",
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          "text": "If you're at the top sometimes it's harder to see what all the people at the bottom are actually doing.",
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          "text": "Waves makes, you know, virtual instruments, virtual reverbs, virtual versions of analog gear... But the funny thing about them is that they keep realizing that they aren't making enough money.",
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          "text": "I'm going to let the AI look through this audio and go, 'Oh, this kind of sounds like a female vocalist.'",
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          "note": "I highlight the necessity for intuitive creation in music rather than a deductive approach."
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          "text": "I want to create an analogy to distortion... the magic starts to come out when you start getting creative yourself and pushing the machine in ways that it doesn't necessarily want to be pushed.",
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          "text": "It becomes a conversation between the two... take away the label and then it starts to make more sense; I have a conversation with my guitar.",
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          "text": "We as consumers as users as creators as artists we get to have a lot of say in that discussion. We shouldn't just be led by these tech moguls off the cliff.",
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      "description": "Artificial intelligence on an acid trip? Let's talk about how generative AI really works, what a \"neural network\" is, the human tendency to anthropomorphize, and cut through the hype to where the tools really are, and how they work. Of course, all through the lens of the best thing ever: Music!",
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          "text": "There's a lot of weird misinformation out there and I'm excited to break down a little bit how this actually works from the lens of the musician.",
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          "text": "One of the things that I always kind of try to take care of or be careful of is that there are persuasive tools... To make them seem more sentient.",
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          "text": "...it’s using these grammar rules that some of us... are completely unconscious of doing and that's one of the things that separates a native speaker from a non-native speaker.",
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          "text": "...there's a difference between outputting new stuff that sounds like a permutation as in a shuffling or truly new like actual creativity.",
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          "text": "The fun thing that I like about all of this is it's so philosophical... Creativity is the highest height that humanity can do.",
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          "text": "It's your choice as it is mine every single day to chart that course or not... touch grass - that can unlock something that machines are never going to have access to.",
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          "text": "But don’t confuse the two... It's about optimizing yourself to do the thing itself rather than the shadow because the shadow's what's easily replaced.",
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          "answer": "Neural networks are a type of AI that mimic the way human brains operate, allowing machines to learn from data."
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          "answer": "AI tools can assist music creators by providing new ways to compose and produce, but they cannot replace the unique human touch."
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          "answer": "AI 'hallucination' refers to the instances when AI produces outputs that seem plausible but are actually inaccurate or fabricated."
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          "text": "I was just learning how to play guitar and piano... always sort of... writing riffs and licks and like that kind of stuff.",
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      "description": "I Made 1000 AI Songs So You Don't Have to... AI is the latest (and most divisive) of music tools. What does music history have to teach us about it? What role is parody playing? And what are the technologists getting wrong?",
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      "hostNote": "\"I don't want a sugar daddy, I want an enchilada mama\", that line sparked joy the moment it came out, and it's also a pretty good summary of what makes AI music generation interesting when you stop trying to make it sound serious. Burrito Bot, my side project dedicated entirely to songs about Mexican food, turned into a genuine laboratory for figuring out where these tools break down and where they don't.\n\nThe thing that really unlocked it was writing my own lyrics rather than letting the AI do it. AI lyric generation is still the weakest link, but plugging that gap with human taste elevates the whole thing. BBL Drizzy is the more high-profile example: a voice transform done with AI, anonymously, that went viral. The tools are already in use; the question is how.\n\nA lot of the artistic magic is in the crapiness of it. I'm not looking for perfect from these tools — I'm looking for the thing that only happens because the machine doesn't quite know what it's doing.\n",
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          "text": "I'm trying to make it. And a new little bit was discovered and uncovered with suNo.ai... it turned it into something that I feel is now, finally, listenable.",
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      "hostNote": "Every instrument has one magic thing that makes the whole thing click, and until you find it, you're not bad at that instrument, you're just growing. That reframe changed how I approach learning entirely.\n\nI walk through three instruments: piano (where breaking left hand from right hand unlocked everything), guitar (where chord shapes started appearing everywhere once I saw the first one), and bass (which I approach like a drum kit, groove lives in tone and dynamic variation, not just note placement). The saxophone cameo near the end is me being honest about where I still haven't found that magic thing yet.\n\nWhat you take away is a framework for the learning plateau, how to recognize which stage you're in and why frustration is often just a sign you haven't found the right entry point yet.\n",
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          "question": "What should I know about learning different instruments?",
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      "hostNote": "**Benjamin Lazar Davis** produced Maya Hawke’s records, studied West African music, plays in Cuddle Magic, and has released music with Monica Martin: which is a range of contexts that traces back to one consistent instinct: following what the instrument is actually asking for rather than imposing a fixed idea on it.\n\nWe talk about what producing for an artist like Hawke actually requires, how West African music reshaped his sense of rhythm and community in music, and the bicoastal living that keeps his frame of reference from calcifying. The \"Pop Rocks in Pepsi\" quote is his description of what happened when certain influences collided unexpectedly, and it captures something real about how his sessions tend to go.\n",
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          "question": "What influences Benjamin Lazar Davis's music?",
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          "text": "It's a song about having fun on a boardwalk. Doesn't get simpler than that.",
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      "description": "Fresh off of the Snoop Dogg tour, Bubby joins the pod to talk about improvisation, musical growth, the church community, and his move to Tokyo. Bubby is one of the wisest, kindest, most joyful musicians I know. Bubby Lewis began playing the bass at the age 14. A son of a pastor, his first performance in front of an audience was at his father’s church in Flint, Michigan. During those early years, Bubby realized his love and passion for music would lead him forward. Bubby made his way to Los Angeles to attend video game design, only to find that he was not enrolled in the school. And so music it was; alone in the competitive world of A-List players Bubby’s positive attitude and drive to learn and succeed soon led him to real connections and acceptance from one world class artist to the next. Bubby went on to work with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Lupe Fiasco, Jhene Aiko, AI, EXILE the Second, Stevie Wonder and many others. You can connect with him on IG @bubbylewis",
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        "Swimming in it, learning from networks vs. school alone",
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          "text": "From the very first moment I performed with Snoop to now, it's evolved so much — it went from literally playing the bass line exactly like the record to alternate notes and sections where we pretend we're swinging a little bit.",
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          "text": "If you choose a different note, now all of a sudden I'm playing a slash chord — I'm playing the same chords, but now it's jazz. The bass player can take you into incredible places.",
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          "text": "I was four or five years old watching Ninja Turtles. I heard Master Splinter talking about Japan — ninjas, the Foot Clan — and that was it.",
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          "text": "It was definitely a problem that I had when I first learned all of the stuff. It's like when you get a wah pedal as a guitarist, it's like I'm going to put a wah on everything.",
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      "description": "We’ve talked about reframing instruments as frequencies and harmonics, but what about looking at everything like a synth? Attack, Decay, Sustain, and Release are a powerful lens to look at all music. And I break out my trusty Juno for some demonstrations!",
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      "description": "My friend texted me, \"Do you believe that specific chords of the same type (eg C Major vs G Major) evoke different emotions or feelings? That are consistent and distinct?\" And I think it pointed at something really profound: Is music relational (change the key, keep the vibe) or absolute (each key has its own vibe).",
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      "hostNote": "A friend texted me a deceptively simple question: does C major feel different from G major, or are all major chords the same? The answer pulls in two directions at once, and I think both are right.\n\nOn one hand, music is relational: the shape of the melody, the intervals between notes, those survive transposition. But notes are also frequencies, not just abstract positions on a scale. Every key has its own flavor because you're dealing with physical phenomena interacting with each other and with whatever instruments you're playing. When you transpose a song you do change the emotion, even if you keep the colors. I get into inversions, the cultural weight certain keys have accumulated over centuries, and why your instrumentation often determines your key more than aesthetics do.\n\nThe episode lands on a useful distinction between what stays when you transpose and what gets left behind, which turns out to be a practical guide to key choice, not just a philosophical one.\n",
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        "Max Martin's influence in music",
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      "description": "Music is more athletic than you may think! I just watched on of my favorite drummers, Nate Smith, and he was like Bruce Lee up there, flowing like water. Proper technique can save musicians from injury, make them play faster, and let them stay on the road for longer. It’s one of the best ways to break through the intermediate wall, but it’s not talked about enough… so I talked about it!",
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      "hostNote": "Watching Nate Smith play egg shaker while simultaneously playing drums, one tiny, casual motion in his wrist, rewired something in my thinking. I realized I could play egg shaker way faster just by changing how I held my arm. That's biomechanics: the right mechanics let the body stop fighting itself.\n\nI get into how musicians give their bodies the way athletes do but rarely train that way. Proper technique isn't just about speed or injury prevention, it's what breaks the intermediate plateau, because a lot of what feels like a ceiling is actually just friction. I look at wrist positioning, muscle economy, dynamic control, and why being forced to think about these things (I came to this through injury, not choice) turns out to be one of the best things that can happen to your playing.\n\nThe episode closes on longevity: the musicians who stay on the road longest aren't the ones who push through pain, they're the ones who learn to move well.\n",
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        "The significance of 45s in music history",
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      "hostNote": "**Harry Katz** came up as a punk bassist and ended up deep in vinyl: specifically 45s, where \"you can kind of learn the story of every song\" through the width and depth of knowledge embedded in each release. That's the thread that runs through this conversation: how serious record collecting reshapes how you hear music, and what it means to become an evangelist for it.\n\nKatz DJs with authenticity, builds community around music history and ska and record collecting on Instagram (his comment sections are little libraries), and fronts Harry Katz and the Pistachios. We talk through the 45 as a format, what changes when you approach live performance as someone who's spent years with the recordings, and how building community around forgotten music becomes its own creative practice.\n",
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          "text": "I'm from New York and I played in bands out there and I was in garage rock bands... I wasn't able to be a bass player anymore because my band was gone and we were literally just busking.",
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          "text": "I love the 45s is that you know, you can kind of learn the story of every song... sometimes I find like the width and depth of the knowledge every track of a jazz record that's very intimidating.",
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          "text": "You know, it's easy you don't have to find the spot in right... I played about a hundred records that night.",
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          "question": "Why are 45s significant in music?",
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          "answer": "He views music theory as a tool to enhance creativity and understanding, enabling deeper connections to the music he creates and listens to."
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          "question": "What has been Harry's experience touring with Still Woozy?",
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          "label": "Waves' cracked plugins scenario",
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          "note": "I reflect on how pirated plugins inadvertently led to musical innovation."
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          "text": "It's because the music industry is so, so scared of piracy because music was one of the first targets of piracy across the board.",
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        {
          "question": "Why do music software companies fear piracy?",
          "answer": "Music software companies fear piracy because it undermines their revenue and affects their ability to sustain their business models, leading to stringent security measures."
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          "question": "How does piracy influence music production?",
          "answer": "Piracy can inadvertently introduce users to music production software, creating a pathway for some to transition from unauthorized use to legitimate purchases."
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      "description": "A fan-friend Jackson asked me about composing bass parts. So, I did a pod about it! In this episode, I go through how I conceptualize the role of the bass, how it interacts with the melody, and hopefully give some insight into this most awesome of instruments.",
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          "note": "I explain how bass lines can serve as counter melodies, enhancing the main melody's structure and interest."
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          "note": "I share thoughts on the importance of rhythmic placement and how bass interacts with the kick drum."
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          "text": "Happy New Year! It is Scoobert Doobert for Love Music More. First of all, I just wanted to say how grateful I am to be able to make this podcast and have people actually listen to it.",
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          "text": "...musical scenes are super important and I think that they get under-reported, under-appreciated, I don't think their stories get told enough.",
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      "hostNote": "Writer's block isn't a mystery, everyone gets it, except apparently John Mellencamp. The question is whether you go through the wall, around it, or dig under it. Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's answer was a deck of cards subtitled \"over 100 worthwhile dilemmas.\"\n\nI unpack why constraints work as a creative catalyst: when a prompt forces you sideways, you stop defending your original idea and start following something new. The oblique move isn't avoidance, it's a deliberate reframe that gets you back to making instead of stalling. That includes using AI as a prompt-generator rather than an answer-machine.\n\nYou leave with a practical method for the next time you're stuck: find a constraint, external or internal, and let it do the heavy lifting.\n",
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          "text": "So what is Oblique Strategies, subtitled over 100 worthwhile dilemmas?",
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          "text": "...I learned this when I was...being guided by a Sherpa up the mountain top of music.",
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          "question": "How can creative constraints help artists?",
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          "question": "Who is Brian Eno and what is his contribution to music?",
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      "description": "Josh Zimmer (Project Atlantic) has taken off on social media with his tongue-in-cheek music theory videos. In this pod, we discuss how he came to love these quirks of pop music, where social media fits in music marketing, and how special the element of surprise can be. (I'm traveling at the moment, and uploading the video has proved impossible on hotel and cafe wi-fi. I'll add the video to my YouTube page, when I'm back home in San Diego. My YouTube is https://youtube.com/scoobertdoobertburrito",
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        "Creativity",
        "The music business",
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        "Impact of social media on music marketing",
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      "hostNote": "**Josh Zimmer** (Project Atlantic) blew up on Instagram and TikTok by doing something deceptively simple: pointing at **odd bars** hiding in plain sight, a sneaky **3/4 measure** in the *Dragon Tales* theme song, micro-surprises in radio edits, the kind of left turn that makes your ears perk up for half a second.\n\nWe trace his arc from a 13-year-old **Pink Floyd / Wizard of Oz** sync-up summer, through bass-led voice-leading, to why he makes those videos: pop is often **simpler than it looks**, and the people behind radio hits are not amateurs. Then **Project Atlantic**, social media as discovery (not replacement) for an indie career, and why rhythmic surprise hits hardest in the songs you least expect.\n",
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          "label": "Contrasting music theory perceptions",
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          "note": "Josh's first viral odd-meter video: a measure of 3/4 in a PBS kids' show theme."
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          "label": "The universal appeal of music",
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          "text": "The people behind songs that get radio airplay — whether you like them or not — the people behind them are extremely talented.",
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          "text": "The only thing I'm comfortable with on any of my Project Atlantic stuff is the bass playing — everything else is such a struggle for me.",
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          "question": "What are odd time signatures in music?",
          "answer": "Odd time signatures are rhythmic structures that differ from common time, creating unique patterns and surprises in music."
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          "question": "How does social media impact music marketing?",
          "answer": "Social media provides a platform for musicians to reach wider audiences, engage fans, and promote their music creatively."
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      "description": "Different instruments have different strengths and weaknesses. How can we lean into each? Or how do we break expectation? Following the last pod about film scoring, let's dig deeper into orchestration, multi-instrumentalism, and making the music theory work for us as composers.",
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        "Music theory",
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        "Polyphony",
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        "Instrumental Strengths",
        "Composition Techniques",
        "Multi-Instrumentalism",
        "Creative Choices"
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      "hostNote": "In this solo episode, I delve into the intricacies of **orchestration** and the significance of understanding different instruments' strengths and weaknesses. Drawing from the previous discussion on film scoring, I explore essential music theory concepts like **voice leading** and **polyphony**. By leveraging these principles, I aim to illustrate how composers can make bold creative choices, breaking traditional expectations in their arrangements.\n\nI also share my personal journey with learning various instruments, emphasizing the **dual approach** of understanding a piece through both practice and collaboration. This episode is packed with insights on how to elevate your composition skills, ultimately leading to richer soundscapes and more engaging music-making experiences.\n",
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          "label": "Exploring Orchestration",
          "startSec": 0,
          "note": "I discuss the role of orchestration in music and the importance of leveraging different instruments' strengths."
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          "label": "Understanding Instrumental Range",
          "startSec": 135,
          "note": "Thoughts on how knowing an instrument's range influences composition, including insights on writing for cello."
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        {
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      "description": "Deciding where to \"place\" an instrument is one of the biggest decisions of a mixing engineer. Simply putting a guitar in the left, right, or center can completely change the vibe of a song. But there are more ways to trick the brain than on! Let's explore delay-based, phase-based, and timbre-based panning options, and how their nuances can change the way the music hits!",
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          "note": "I explain the difference between natural panning and hard-panned techniques."
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          "note": "I discuss how phasing can create a wide perspective in sound."
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          "note": "I describe using panning to achieve psychedelic and swirling audio effects."
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          "note": "I talk about how strategic panning can reduce mix complexity and enhance clarity."
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          "text": "Today, I want to talk about panning, the process of moving audio in between your ears.",
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          "answer": "Using techniques such as phase panning and delay trails, producers can create swirling, immersive soundscapes that enrich the listener's experience."
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      "description": "Today, I discuss how notes and chords can transcend from being building blocks into music, through the use of part writing. From early polyphony to counterpoint and James Jamerson bass, make the music dance! Or as my favorite drummer Bernard Purdie says, \"make the drums sing!\"",
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        "Understanding polyphony",
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        "Vocal hooks in music",
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        "Creating interesting parts"
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      "hostNote": "There's a difference between a power chord and a big sparkly dream pop chord, and both are just notes until someone decides how each instrument moves. Part-writing is the craft of making every line feel like it has somewhere to go.\n\nI trace the lineage from early polyphony through counterpoint to James Jamerson's Motown bass lines, where you're supporting the melody, adding syncopation, and providing a melodic voice of your own all at once. Bernard Purdie's instruction to \"make the drums sing\" is the whole idea in four words. Even chaos has intention behind it; the question is whether you put it there deliberately.\n\nYou come away with a way of listening to individual instrument parts as melodies in their own right, not just as filler supporting a vocal.\n",
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        {
          "label": "From polyphony to counterpoint",
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          "note": "An explanation of polyphony and counterpoint, emphasizing the evolution of musical parts over time."
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          "label": "The significance of vocal hooks",
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          "note": "I articulate the importance of viewing instrument parts—like drums and bass—as vocalists supporting melodies."
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        {
          "label": "The intentionality of note selection",
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          "note": "Insight into the significance of how each note's arrangement creates musical texture and harmony."
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          "label": "Chaotic yet intentional arrangements",
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          "question": "What is part-writing in music?",
          "answer": "Part-writing is the process of composing music by arranging notes and chords in a way that creates meaningful and engaging musical lines, especially in relation to vocal parts."
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          "question": "How do singers approach recording for vocal comping?",
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      "description": "Want a better mix 2? Keep your mix engineer creative and proactive. Give them questions rather than answers. In this pod, I cover how creative communication can empower your collaborators rather than box them in. Turn people into experts instead of tools, and watch how your network can perform! (And love working with you!)",
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      "hostNote": "\"Ultimately this is your job, not mine. So what are you going to do to my music that might open up new doors?\" That's the question I'd rather ask a mix engineer than hand them a spec sheet. The spec sheet turns them into a tool; the question turns them into an expert.\n\nI get into why the worst creative collaborations happen when someone with a vision micromanages every decision, the busybody CEO problem, applied to music. When you give a collaborator the problem instead of the solution, they bring craft you didn't know to ask for, and they care about the outcome differently.\n\nThe practical result: questions help you reach a finish line you're proud of, and when you're proud of it, everything downstream, the promotion, the follow-up, the relationship, goes better.\n",
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          "note": "Describes how changing the way you communicate with collaborators unlocks their creative potential."
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          "question": "How can I empower my collaborators in creative projects?",
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          "question": "What role does leadership play in collaborative music settings?",
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          "question": "How does mixing affect perceived loudness?",
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          "question": "What role does clipping play in music production?",
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      "description": "You know how much I love pace. While speed is super important, there are times to downshift and take it slow. Finding the balance between speed and accuracy is key for athletes and creatives alike. As someone that airs on the side of fast, I want to share some of the tips I've been finding as a mixing engineer, and hopefully expand the way you listen to music from a technical perspective.",
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      "hostNote": "\"There's a really fine line between being fast and being sloppy, and I don't always hit it.\" I lean toward fast, it's a bias that serves me most of the time and buries me in specific moments that are very hard to fix later.\n\nI go through the places in a mix where speed costs you: vocal breaths that get printed into a track, the accidental space-bar click that ends up sounding like a rim shot, quantization decisions you can't undo. The moments that require you to sit with the detail rather than push through it. The frame is mixing, but the principle applies anywhere precision and momentum pull in opposite directions.\n\nYou come away with a more calibrated sense of where in your workflow to downshift, not as a general virtue, but as a specific, targeted habit.\n",
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          "note": "I highlight common mistakes in recording, such as accidental noise."
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          "label": "Quantization choices",
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          "note": "I share my approach to quantizing music, preferring hands-on methods."
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      "hostNote": "**Son Lux** does something most producers don't: they treat the sound design layer and the production layer as the same decision, not consecutive ones. Their Oscar nomination for *Everything Everywhere All At Once* brought mainstream attention, but the approach is what makes the music last.\n\nI dig into how they source percussion from physical manipulation (organic low-end instead of a kick drum), what binaural recording opens up when you run it into computational tools, and why the blend of analog richness and digital processing is where the most interesting territory is right now.\n",
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          "note": "I explain the importance of blending sound design and record production."
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          "label": "Innovative percussion techniques",
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          "note": "I discuss using unconventional methods in drumming."
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          "label": "Creating unique sounds",
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      "description": "Athletes and musicians have a great deal of mutual respect and attraction. In this pod, I talk about what artists can learn from athletes, how we can apply concepts like “chop wood/carry water” to our practice routines, and why Mamba Mentality is a must for the modern-day artist.",
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      "hostNote": "\"It takes heat to make a star\", you can't optimize around the pressure, only through it. NBA players want to be musicians; musicians want to be athletes. The mutual fascination makes sense because both disciplines punish people who can't meet a moment.\n\nI get into Anthony Davis playing world-class defense while barely showing up in the box score, the contribution that doesn't get reflected in points, and why that's exactly what it looks like to be a star in your role. The \"chop wood, carry water\" frame for practice: the unglamorous daily work that happens before you're ready to be seen. And the stage most people I hear from are stuck on: forcing the industry to accept you, before the path gets clearer.\n\nYou come away thinking about practice and presence differently, less about talent, more about what you do when the moment arrives.\n",
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          "text": "We each want to be each other, if you notice like NBA players, they all want to be rappers and musicians.",
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          "question": "How do athletes and musicians inspire each other?",
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      "hostNote": "Steve Brickman spent his 20s accumulating instruments and his 30s learning what to do with them. He plays saxophone, guitar, piano, and the **OMNICHORD** (exactly as weird and wonderful as it sounds), and has toured with **Clairo** in rooms from 2,000 to 6,000 capacity.\n\nWe talk about the point where a practice regimen clicks into actual fluency, what touring at that level involves logistically (\"you need a backup for the backup\"), and why having more tools to offer makes you more indispensable, not more diluted. His 30s frame: stop acquiring, start deploying.\n",
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          "label": "Transitioning to Guitar",
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      "title": "Taste, Intuition and the Dunning-Kruger Effect in Music",
      "description": "This episode is as much a message, a reminder, for me as it is a pod for you. Taste and intuition in music (and life) are epic quests, filled with the dangers of arrogance and complacency. The key to growth is always being around (virtually or physically) those that are better than you are. And the path isn't to study every note. It's to learn intuitively. To soak it in. And to fail spectacularly. All that and more on Music 101, lol.",
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      "hostNote": "There are things in music that can only be learned, not taught. You can memorize every scale in a book and still not know when to deploy one, how to phrase it, or how to listen to the room. That gap, between knowing the rule and having the feel, is what taste and intuition actually are.\n\nI get into the Dunning-Kruger problem as it applies specifically to musicians: the hit of despair when you realize how far there is to go, and why the only way out is through doing rather than thinking. The path I keep coming back to is osmosis, exposing yourself to great work and asking \"how would I have done that?\" rather than analyzing it to death.\n\nThe takeaway is that failure isn't the obstacle to developing intuition; it's the mechanism. There's always someone better, and that's the point.\n",
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          "note": "I emphasize that some lessons in music cannot be taught but must be learned through doing."
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          "question": "How can I develop my musical taste?",
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          "question": "What is the role of failure in learning music?",
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      "hostNote": "\"I've never felt a guitar feel this good before.\" That moment, picking up a Telecaster after years on inferior instruments, wasn't just about the hardware. It changed the direction I was heading entirely, from metal toward something with more space and more voice in it.\n\nI trace what that shift actually meant: learning an instrument as a singer rather than as a technician, where the goal isn't fluency for its own sake but finding a voice that says something. Guitar has always been my home instrument, but the journey through surf, melody, and multi-instrumentalism gave me a vocabulary I couldn't have built on guitar alone.\n\nThe frame I come back to is this: \"it just becomes part of you and then you have a voice.\" Finding that is the whole project.\n",
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          "note": "After discovering the feel of a Telecaster, I describe how it changed his musical direction from metal to surf guitar."
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          "label": "Guitar as a vocal instrument",
          "startSec": 273,
          "note": "I share the profound realization that his guitar serves as a vocal expression, especially during his musical learning."
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          "note": "I discuss the significance of being fluent on an instrument to sustain creativity and musical expression."
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          "question": "What is my journey with the electric guitar?",
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      "hostNote": "\"When you tell me your bridge is a middle eight, I'm going to play it completely differently than if you tell me it's a bridge.\" That's not just a vocabulary distinction, it's a different song. The words you use to describe a piece don't just name it; they anchor a musician into a tradition, a style, a set of expectations to confirm or subvert.\n\nI go through the terms that function as production incantations: ghost notes, hemiola, ostinato, call-and-response, crescendo. Each one shifts the player's mindset before they play a note. The deeper point is that every instruction changes someone's emotion, style, and interpretation, so knowing which spell to cast is part of the craft of directing.\n\nYou come away with a sharper sense of how vocabulary shapes creative decisions, and a few specific terms worth adding to your production toolkit.\n",
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          "text": "Even something like a backbeat or ghost notes, some of these things to a non-musician would be like, what is a ghost note?",
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          "answer": "Using precise music terms shifts the way musicians approach a piece, impacting their emotional and technical execution."
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          "question": "What are ghost notes in music?",
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      "hostNote": "Really good players are not trying that hard, but they are locked in. That's the paradox at the center of this, and it's the thing most people miss when the record light goes on. The fear of recording collapses the two states: you either go loose and careless, or you tighten up and start self-sabotaging. Neither works.\n\nI use Bernard Purdie as the example, someone who plays simultaneously free and laser-focused, and frame it as a middle path between indulging every impulse and being an ascetic monk. Present and aware, but not precious. The flow state isn't mystical; it's a muscle you build by going back to the session even when it doesn't feel right.\n\nWhat comes out of this is a reframe for how to approach recording, not a checklist of tips, but a way of relating to the process so you can stay in it longer and stop treating the mic like it's judging you.\n",
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      "hostNote": "The subtlety of having taste is about asking what problem you're actually trying to solve, and that question doesn't go away no matter how good the software gets. I think there are three skills that survive the current disruption, and none of them are about keeping up with tools.\n\nBeing **clever** is about seeing systems: spotting the gaps, reading trends before they saturate, knowing which problem you're actually working on. Being **creative** is about range, not in a limiting sense, but understanding what is genuinely yours versus what you're borrowing and how far you can stretch either. **Taste** is the hardest to articulate, and I spend the most time there: it's less about preference and more about judgment under constraint.\n\nThe episode doesn't predict who wins the AI race. It maps the durable capacities underneath whoever does, so you know what's worth developing regardless of which software company ends up on top.\n",
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          "label": "The Connection Between Music and Voice Acting",
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          "label": "The Evolution of Voiceover Work",
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          "label": "Musicians in the voice actor community",
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          "note": "Why performing disciplines reinforce each other, and why she feels at home in VO."
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          "text": "You're using your experiences in life — the ups and downs — you're using it all to create and to make art.",
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          "question": "What inspires Alessandra Levy's music career?",
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        {
          "question": "How did Alessandra Levy transition from music to voice acting?",
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      "description": "Best way to get good at guitar? Learn some sax solos. Jazz has been doing this forever, but pop can copy their homework. Learn the lines from someone that thinks differently than you. Practice the way they approach music. And open your mind, man.",
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        "Role of synthesizers",
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      "hostNote": "Musicians are just creative borrowers, the beauty is in the permutation plus the personality. That's the whole argument: what you borrow matters less than what you do with it once it's filtered through how you hear and play.\n\nI get into what it was like to approach guitar from a saxophone player's angle, not the notes, but the articulation. How hard you strike, where you breathe, the phrasing decisions that come naturally on a wind instrument and feel strange on a fretted one. I also talk about watching pianists and how observing the way they held their wrists actually changed how I play. You can't get that from a tab. It's a lot easier to grasp what somebody's doing when you're sitting right next to them.\n\nThe episode is about why cross-instrument borrowing gives you moves your own tradition won't hand you, and why proximity to how someone else thinks is the most efficient shortcut I've found.\n",
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          "note": "I share my experience of learning saxophone solos and how it transformed his musical perspective."
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          "label": "Articulation and Genre",
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          "note": "I highlight how playing styles influence musical genres and personal expression."
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          "note": "I define how creativity stems from the blend of influences and individual taste."
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          "note": "I emphasize the importance of live music and personal interactions in shaping musical learning."
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          "text": "I wanted to talk about how I view the saxophone as a guitarist, and also how I view the bass and the synthesizer and the piano.",
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          "text": "The idea of how hard am I striking it, am I striking it? Soft, hard, soft, hard... those articulations can mirror other instruments.",
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          "question": "What can guitarists learn from saxophone playing?",
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          "question": "What is the significance of cultural music in shaping genre?",
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      "description": "Stop confusing creativity with your craft! You practice to clear the path for the muses, and when the muse arrives, you get out the way and run with them. I’ve thought a lot about this tension while doing the guest pods with far more successful (and far more organized) mixing engineers than I. But we all have our own ways of doing it. Maybe by hearing my way, you’ll be inspired to try some new paths.",
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          "note": "Discussing how craft can serve as a steadying force amidst the chaos of creativity, I liken it to a 'lightning rod in the storm'."
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          "note": "I explain how I engag with mixing and production to maintain momentum in his creative work."
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          "label": "Music Theory as a Guide",
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          "question": "What is the difference between creativity and craft in music?",
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      "description": "Spring reverb! Chamber! Nonlinear! Plate! Let's talk through the different styles of reverb, how they effect audio, and some of the uses for these varied expressions of \"room sound.\" Want to hear my reverbs? Check out",
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          "note": "A description of plate reverb, how it works, and its iconic use in records."
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      "hostNote": "If you're doing it for the money, you should stop, it's ridiculous. That's not cynicism; it's the honest starting point for why a music education is actually worth pursuing.\n\nThe value isn't economic. It's the network you build, the community you become part of, the tools you develop for navigating ambiguity under pressure, things that transfer far outside music but are sharpest when you learn them through it. I use a backpack analogy: music education is the gear that makes the terrain accessible, not the destination itself.\n\nThe episode is an argument for why sacrifice toward a music education is justified on its own terms, separate from what it earns you. What you walk away with is a clearer sense of what you're actually investing in when you invest in getting better.\n",
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          "text": "Music education unlocks the tools that, you know, like the water bottle. And it's like music education is like that REI, like you can get that nice backpack.",
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          "question": "What are the benefits of music education?",
          "answer": "Music education offers personal growth, transferable skills, and community building beyond just technical training."
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          "answer": "Pursuing a career in music can lead to deeper connections, creative fulfillment, and valuable life skills."
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          "answer": "Music education fosters resilience, creativity, and a strong sense of community, shaping individuals in profound ways."
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      "title": "What is compression?",
      "description": "This week we talk about compression and the value of \"gluing\" together instruments to create a big ball of music.",
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      "date": "2021-11-29",
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      "hostNote": "Compression and saturation together, no EQ, no reverb, can take raw audio and turn it into a releasable record. That's a claim worth unpacking, and it's where this episode starts.\n\nI walk through what compression actually does: any time something plays too loud, it gets pulled back by a set ratio. That's the threshold and ratio mechanic at its simplest. But the interesting part is what happens when you compress multiple instruments together, they stop being individual tracks and start behaving like one object, a ball of sound.\n\nThe episode covers the difference between live dynamics and recorded dynamics, what \"glue compression\" on a bus actually does, and why this one tool sits underneath almost every commercial record you've heard.\n",
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          "note": "Discussing the feeling of wholeness in music through compression and how it binds different instruments."
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          "note": "I share insights on how compression affects dynamics in live versus recorded environments."
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          "note": "I demonstrate the transformative power of compression on a drum kit."
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          "text": "Music in its best form to me has a sense of wholeness like everything is pulled together to create one musical statement.",
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          "text": "Compression is the magic glue that pulls things together and tames noisy or erratic instruments.",
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          "text": "So you're basically saying anytime that something is playing really loud, I'm going to pull it back by a third... That's where compression gets really fascinating and cool to me as a mixing engineer.",
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          "question": "What is compression in music?",
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          "question": "Why is compression important in mixing?",
          "answer": "Compression helps to glue together different instruments, ensuring that they work harmoniously and creating a fuller and more polished sound."
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          "question": "How does compression differ between live and recorded sound?",
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          "question": "What is Dolby Atmos?",
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          "question": "How does spatial audio differ from traditional stereo sound?",
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          "question": "What are the benefits of using Dolby Atmos in music production?",
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      "description": "We've covered pitch (frequency) and loudness (dynamics). In this episode, we look at the third major component of music: TIME. I discuss my philosophical view of reverbs, delays and time-based effects—including spacial / binaural audio.",
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      "description": "I always talk about \"vibe\" as my most important goal. Here's how \"timbre\" can generate vibe.",
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      "hostNote": "Timbre is what makes pop music pop music. Not the chord changes, not the tempo, the specific quality of sound that lets your brain identify a Fender Rhodes from a Yamaha grand in a fraction of a second. It's a snowflake, a fingerprint, and it's the most important thing in popular music that people almost never name directly.\n\nI get into how timbre works physically, harmonics stacking on top of a fundamental frequency, the way an instrument's body shapes those overtones, and then what it means in practice for producers. A mixing engineer's entire job is timbre management: sculpting those harmonic relationships so every element fits without fighting. And now we can manipulate timbre from the DNA up using digital tools, which changes everything about what a \"natural\" sound even means.\n\nThe episode closes with timbre as the key to understanding genre: doom metal and old-school R&B might share a tempo and a key, but they share nothing in terms of timbre, which is why they feel like different worlds.\n",
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          "note": "I discuss how different instruments can play the same note yet sound distinct."
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          "note": "I talk about how mixing engineers influence timbre in music production."
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          "note": "I explore digital effects and manipulation of instruments through technology."
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          "text": "In the same way that an orchestral section creates a sense of horns, it becomes this massive group.",
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        "Cultural context of rock music",
        "Rock music as performance art",
        "Transition from rock and roll to classic rock",
        "Fandom and artists' roles",
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      "description": "When a musician takes on a new song, they’re taking on a journey. A million mouse clicks. (Often) thousands of dollars. And most importantly, up to hundreds of hours of work. So why do we so often write songs to be a “hit?” And then why are we surprised when we burn out chasing hit songs? Let’s talk about passion. What animates the artist. And why hits can be unexpected. They’re lightning in a bottle. Go ride that lightning.",
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        "The role of humor in music",
        "Emotional connection to songs",
        "Overcoming creative obstacles"
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      "hostNote": "The songs that crack through, the real ones, come out of nowhere. They're a roundhouse kick to the face. They weren't written by someone chasing a trend. And yet most of us sit down and try to write a hit, then wonder why we burn out halfway through finishing it.\n\nI think about the actual weight of a song: a million mouse clicks, potentially thousands of dollars, hundreds of hours. The question isn't whether you *can* finish it: it's why you would. If you're writing something that feels shallow, you'll find every reason to stop. The financial incentive rarely shows up in time to carry you through.\n\nThe episode also makes space for something lighter: it's okay to be a little goofy, to write something weird or funny, to follow whatever animates you right now. You will never write the song you'd write in this exact moment again. That's a reason to make it, not wait for a better one.\n",
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          "note": "I explain how unexpected hit songs often arise from genuine inspiration instead of calculated efforts."
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          "text": "Why are you going to invest all of this time, all of this energy, a million more mouse clicks into finishing this piece of music?",
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          "question": "How do I define a hit song?",
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      "description": "Energy lacking? Vibes off? Chorus not \"big\" enough? Start by subtracting. Even for a bar. The little things you don't say are their own kind of tension. Breathe for a moment.",
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        "Addition through Subtraction",
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      "hostNote": "Sometimes the best songs just don't need a guitar, and if you're the guitarist, you have to find the emotional capacity to be okay with that. That's the hardest part of arrangement: not adding the thing, not filling the space, sitting with the absence and trusting it.\n\nI get into why overcrowded arrangements are so common, overdoing it is actually good practice, you just have to then throw things out, and how contrast is the mechanism that makes a chorus feel big. The section before it has to be smaller. Low end, subdivisions, harmonic density: all of it shapes how large or small a moment feels, and you're not really mixing until you're listening to those relationships.\n\nThe episode closes on a cleaner frame for the whole thing: understanding your role and when your \"paint color\" is needed makes mixing easier, because then you're rounding off edges rather than carving out frequencies after the fact.\n",
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          "text": "One of the best things to do in arrangement is to overdo it a little bit...But then you need to find the space inside your heart and your soul to throw out ideas.",
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          "text": "Understanding your role and when your paint color is needed in the arrangement makes the mix so much easier because then you're just rounding off edges rather than carving out frequencies.",
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          "question": "What is addition through subtraction in music production?",
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          "question": "How does low end information affect a recording's size?",
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        {
          "question": "Why is contrast important in music?",
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      "hostNote": "Mono mixing is a real diagnostic tool, but treating it as dogma turns a useful check into a constraint. I look at why the \"always start mono\" rule made sense when the average listener had a clock radio, why headphones have changed the calculus, and when hard-panning conflicting elements is actually the solution mono mixing was trying to prevent.\n\nThe stronger argument: use mono to *find* problems, not to *avoid* making decisions. Know why you're reaching for it.\n",
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          "note": "Setting the stage for discussing the importance of freeing oneself from traditional mixing dogmas."
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          "label": "The value of sacred cows",
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          "note": "Exploring both the merits and downfalls of long-standing practices in music production."
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          "label": "Old school vs modern mixing",
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          "note": "Discussing the misconceptions around mono mixing stemming from old school mentality."
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          "text": "Mono mixing certainly has a ton of merit, but I want you to free yourself from dogma.",
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          "question": "What are the dogmas in music production?",
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      "hostNote": "Creativity is looking at the book that shouldn't be on your table and going \"I should put that in the song.\" It's associative, not linear, and that's the tension. Platinum mix engineers are often more organized than you'd expect. So do you clean up and risk losing the chaos that feeds you?\n\nI work through the practical side: Jay Dilla's rhythmic displacement, how grouping things in fives and sevens instead of fours creates natural overlap and surprise, and why decision fatigue is a real enemy of creative work. The energy for new ideas tends to live at the extremes, the book that shouldn't be there, the weird overlap, the thing you weren't supposed to try.\n\nThere's also a Taoist angle here. Maybe there's a different idea waiting inside the void rather than inside the chaos. Both are worth cultivating.\n",
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          "answer": "Chaos can serve as a source of inspiration, encouraging artists to find creativity in unexpected places."
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      "hostNote": "Last episode we stacked perfect fifths and ended up with **12 notes**. So what do we do with all of them, play the chromatic scale and sound like the circus song? This episode is the answer: **harmony**: how we pick subsets of those notes, stack them into chords, and why Western pop keeps circling the same **I–IV–V** gravity well.\n\nI walk from two singers blending on different pitches, through the circle of fifths (yes, fourths too: **confusing AF**), to why \"major = happy / minor = sad\" is a useful lie, and why you need **bad-sounding chords** to make the good ones land. If you've ever wondered why three chords carry most of pop, and why Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, and the music of the spheres are basically cousins: start here.\n",
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          "text": "Harmony, like a harmony when two singers are singing together and they're singing two different notes, and it sounds beautiful.",
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          "text": "Just naming something perfect definitely gives it a lot of weight. The reason why he was so into it was it was a mathematical ratio of three to two.",
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          "text": "It's mostly just arbitrary. It's just because that group of people conquered most of the world.",
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          "question": "What role does tension and release play in music?",
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          "label": "Building Your Sound with Limits",
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      "year": 2022,
      "release": "KŌAN",
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      "year": 2021,
      "release": "5G BABY (feat. Robel Ketema)",
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      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "lyrics": "I wanna consume ya\nLike now and forever\nYour front back and center\nAnother little bite of your soul\n\nYour digital footprint\nI'm building a blueprint\nForever has never been\nAs close as it\nReally seems to get everyday\n\nWe used to take the long road\nBut now I never have to feel so lonely\nI keep you in my pocket\nNever gonna stop it\n\nI wanna consume ya\nLike now and forever\nYour front back and center\nAnother little bite of your soul\n\nYour digital footprint\nI'm building a blueprint\nForever has never been\nAs close as it\nReally seems to get everyday\n\nI'm your 5G baby\nMake me your 5G baby\n5G baby\nMake me your 5G baby\n\nShawty used to hit me on aim\nShe had me wired up\nAlways hit up faster\nEven though we both had the dial up\n\nCall me on the way\nAnd I would meet you bout a mile up\nNever could be night\nCuz it's feeling like it's time's up\n\nVenmo\nCrypto\nTestla\niG come find me\nConnecting at the crevice overwhelming\n\nSha\nSha\nShawty used to hit my aim\nYour had me wired up\nSo so many wires\nNow it makes sense that we tied up\n\nI'm your 5G baby\nMake me your 5G baby\n5G baby\nMake me your 5G baby\n\nI wanna consume ya\nLike now and forever\nYour front back and center\nAnother little bite of your soul\n\nYour digital footprint\nI'm building a blueprint\nForever has never been\nAs close as it\nReally seems to get everyday\n\nI'm your 5G baby\nMake me your 5G baby\n5G baby\nMake me your 5G baby\n",
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    "title": "800,000",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "lyrics": "Of course we saw it coming\nThere would be an end to us\nThe sudden nature of it\nUnraveling under the sun\n\nI'm losing my mind over you\nI'm losing my time to the violent truth\nI'm losing my mind over you\nLeave me behind knowing I love you\nI'm losing my\n\nOur faith, our holy water\nCough our lungs out in the dust\nDevoured, immolated\nI love you, wait for the light\n\nI'm losing my mind over you\nI'm losing my time to the violent truth\nI'm losing my mind over you\nLeave me behind knowing I love you\nI'm losing my my mind over you\nI'm losing my time to the violent truth\nI'm losing my mind over you\nLeave me behind knowing I love you\nI'm losing my\n\nOh, leaving my father\nLeaving my mother\nTo see you\nI'm leaving my father\nLeaving my mother, leaving my\n\nI'm losing my mind over you\nI'm losing my time to the violent truth\nI'm losing my mind over you\nLeave me behind knowing I love you\nI'm losing my my mind over you\nI'm losing my time to the violent truth\nI'm losing my mind over you\nLeave me behind knowing I love you\nI'm losing my\n",
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    "title": "A Big Hug",
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      "meaning": "Big Hug closer, Luke solo: no one here gets out alive, and that's okay: flawed and beautiful, a big hug is all we need.",
      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Big Hug",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
      "credits": "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp.",
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      "lyrics": "A single impression's all you get\nThe infinite\nSimplified and alien\nNothing resembling you\nYeah, I know your type\n480p vision\nI'm throttling\nToo much to take it all in\nI don't trust your face\n\nIdentity is what you see\nBut what are we, yeah what are we really?\nDon't really know if God exists\nAre we the only consciousness we've got?\n\nNo one here gets out alive\nYeah\nNo one here gets out alive\nYeah yeah\nNo one here gets out alive\nNo one here gets out alive\n\nA big hug is all I need\nYou understand\nWe are only human\nFlawed and beautiful\n\nNo one here gets out alive\nOh\nNo one here gets out alive\nYeah\nNo one here gets out alive\nYeah yeah\nNo one here gets out alive\n\nAnd that's okay\nThat's okay\nIt's the only way\nFor us\nTo get\nA big hug\n",
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    "title": "A Good Girl",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "meaning": "Saturday night stood up again: moon like a prison spotlight; I just want a good girl who understands me.",
      "year": 2010,
      "release": "Goodbye/Hello",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "The Luke Walton Band",
      "artistId": "#lukewaltonband",
      "credits": "Words and music by Luke Walton (Luke Francis Walton). The Luke Walton Band.",
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      "lyrics": "You faked a smile and said you loved me,\nCrossed your arms,\nSo I couldn't see\n\nThat in your heart there's something evil,\nSomething evil,\nYeah.\n\nThe moon was on ya like a prison spotlight,\nYou met some guy,\nAnd in the black night.\n\nTossed me aside like so many others,\nSo many others,\nYeah.\n\nHere I stand dreaming of,\nSomeone who wouldn't make life so rough.\n\nI just want a good girl,\nDo I have to search the whole world,\nTo get my hands on such a simple thing.\n\nSomeone who understands me,\nWho tries her best to see,\nJust what a little love can really bring.\n\nBut instead I'm stuck stood up,\nAnother Saturday night gone to waste.\n\nI just want a good girl,\nDo I have to search the whole world,\nTo get my hands on such a simple thing.\n\nThe party's done and I'm still pacing,\nMy eyes are shut,\nAnd my mind is racing.\n\nI guess that I don't choose them wisely,\nChoose them wisely,\nYeah.\n\nHere I stand dreaming of,\nSomeone who wouldn't make life so rough.\n\nI just want a good girl,\nDo I have to search the whole world,\nTo get my hands on such a simple thing.\n\nSomeone who understands me,\nWho tries her best to see,\nJust what a little love can really bring.\n\nBut instead I'm stuck stood up,\nAnother Saturday night gone to waste.\n\nI just want a good girl,\nDo I have to search the whole world,\nTo get my hands on such a simple thing.\n\nI'm gonna keep going out,\nCause I don't got no doubt,\nThat there's somebody out there hearing my plea.\n\nJust gimme some time,\nCause I'm sure that I'll find,\nSomeone who actually understands me.\n\nI just want a good girl,\nDo I have to search the whole world,\nTo get my hands on such a simple thing.\n\nSomeone who understands me,\nWho tries her best to see,\nJust what a little love can really bring.\n\nBut instead I'm stuck stood up,\nAnother Saturday night gone to waste.\n\nI just want a good girl,\nDo I have to search the whole world,\nTo get my hands on such a simple thing.\n",
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    "title": "A Good Life",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "title": "A Good Life",
      "meaning": "Pandemic love song: us alone isn't what you pictured: ignore the chaos, don't look around, keep singing it's a good life while grinning and bottling it up.",
      "year": 2020,
      "release": "Masks and Monsters",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
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      "year": 2025,
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      "lyrics": "I'm not ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready yet\n\nI'm not ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready yet\n\nSorry\nWe're at capacity\nNo worries we got a place that we go\nTake a shortcut down ocean avenue\nMaybe we could take a swim\nMaybe I could talk with you\n\nRunning\nHmm not the best idea\nWe're falling\nHow'd I get this bruise, nobody knows\nTake a shortcut down electric avenue\nYou know I wanna rock with you\nAre you down too?\n\nNothing good ever happens\nAfter 2 am\nI wanna keep the party going\nGrab a stranger make a friend\nI don't know where to go but I know that I'm\n\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready yet\n\nI'm not ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready yet\n\nWant a cigarette?\nMmm what am I doin\nOver-consuming\nDon't think about it\n\nOh for the hell of it\nI'll take a hit of it\nThat wasn't a cigarette\nAy yah yah\n\nNothing good ever happens\nAfter 2 am\nI wanna keep the party going\nGrab a stranger make a friend\nI don't know where to go but I know that I'm\n\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready yet\n\nI'm not ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready yet\n\nNothing good ever happens\nAfter 2 am\nI wanna keep the party going\nGrab a stranger make a friend\nI don't know where to go but I know that I'm\n\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready yet\n\nI'm not ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready to go home\nNot ready yet\n\nOo I'll have another\nCan I get another\nOo I'll have another\nCan I get another?\n",
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      "title": "Aliens",
      "meaning": "Heaven as alien convention: everyone's religion was right, they might be sexy, you might be the alien: and if dogs go, why can't Alf?",
      "year": 2023,
      "release": "MÖB",
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      "lyrics": "What if when you go to heaven\nThere's like lots of aliens\nAnd like they're all talking\nAbout like how their religion was right\nAnd those aliens are like\nKinda sexy wait might\nI be an alien to them?\n\nIf we all go to heaven\nWhat then yeah, what then\nOh oh, yeah, what then?\nIf dogs go to heaven\nThen why can't Alf?\n",
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      "meaning": "FEiN Little Homes: scrib-a-lin on her pages, concrete lake, no one saw nothing wrong: all her books printed, little family covers eyes; leave our little home and we can't save you, band-aids gone, build it back on your own.",
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      "lyrics": "Scrib\n-\na\n-\nlin on her pages,\nAs she ages,\nWhisky\nback; she drinkin!\nCute\nlittle family passes,\nGreenest grasses,\nOn their lawn; still drinking!\nStum\n-\nba\n-\nlin\ntoward the water,\nNo one caught her,\nConcrete lake; she sinking.\nReaching out blindly hopin\n'\n,\nSlowly choking,\nOn her back; so human.\nThere's no one left to call.\nDoes no one care at all?\nShe makes me feel so small,\nCuz no one\nt\nhere saw nothing wrong.\n\nBroken and lifeless eyes look,\nSo surprised,\nher\nLoneliness;\nunanswered.\nCute little family walks by,\nCover\ntheir eyes,\nAnd their ears and noses.\nAll of her books\nwere printed,\nLovely sentences,\nAre all; that's left here.\nSomebody\ncalled\nfor maintenance,\nCome and clean this,\nMess up now; in\n-\nhuman.\n\nThere's no\none left to call.\nDoes no one care at all?\nShe makes me feel so small,\nCuz no one here saw nothing wrong.\n\nLittle family in their home,\nThey tell their children,\nOf what the world holds.\nNow,\nif\nyou leave\nour little home,\nCan't take it with you,\nYou\nsure\nyou wanna go?\n'Cause i\nf you leave\nour little home,\nThen we can't save you,\nYou\ncho\nse\nto be alone.\n\nThere's no one left\nto\ncall.\nDoes no one\ncare\n,\nat all?\nShe makes me feel so\nsmall\n,\nCuz no\none\n!\nhere saw nothing wrong.\n\nIs it worth being alone\nIt's a path you've never known.\nOn\na path we've never known.\nA rock amist the stones\n\nThen you might end up,\nLike that lady on the street.\nNo one will save you\nThen can't save you,\nThen we can't save you,\nThe\nworld you knew is gone.\nThere is no rescue\nNo one will save you\nThen mom can't save you\nThere won't be rescue\nThere won't be band\n-\naids\nYour warm bed is gone.\nAbandoned on your own\nIf\nyou leave your little home,\nYou have to build it,\nBack up on\nyour own.\n",
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      "meaning": "MÖB's closer: American wanting versus enough: Zillow doomscroll and Mr. American desire on one side, garden-and-best-friend sunlight on the other, with teenage ambition arguing against adult contentment.",
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      "release": "MÖB",
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      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "lyrics": "All that I need, all that I need\nAll that I need, all that I need\nWake up again\nIn my tiny apartment\nI'm doom doom doom\nDoom doomscrolling Zillow\nThe nearest place I can ill afford\nIs in Mexico\nOoo\n\nI'm an American\nAlways wanting, wanting, wanting\nMr. American\nFast cars, nice things, diamond rings\nCutting-edge technology\nAlways forgetting to be happy\n\nCause I got all that I need\nI got all that I need\nOo, I got all that I need\nI got all that I need\n\nWake up again\nWith my best friend\nGrow a little garden\nStrolling down the rich people's street\nBreak into their private beach like\nDancing in the sunlight\nOh, the places we'll go\n\nI'm an American\nAlways wanting, wanting, wanting\nMr. American\nFast cars, nice things, diamond rings\nCutting-edge technology\nAlways forgetting to be happy\n\nCause I got all that I need\nI got all that I need\nOo, I got all that I need\nI got all that I need\n\nMy teenage self would probably be\nDisappointed in me but then again\nHe was an idiot, oh, woah oh oh oh\nMy teenage self and I disagree\nOn what it means to be happy\nBut then again I am an idiot\nOh, woah oh oh oh\n\nI'm an American\nAlways wanting, wanting, wanting\nMr. American\nFast cars, nice things, diamond rings\nCutting-edge technology\nAlways forgetting to be happy\n\nCause I got all that I need\nI got all that I need\nOo, I got all that I need\nI got all that I need\nI got all that I need\n",
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      "meaning": "Big Hug funk sermon: Malik LovesYall in the room, Moses jokes and beast mode: knowledge wants a pill but it's all in the feeling, chains turned to gold, Rosetta Stone peace that still feels wrong.",
      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Big Hug",
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      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "lyrics": "Fwing\nHuh\nAlright\nMalik LovesYall\nGet down\nEverybody breathe oh no\nThey take that and let them people go\nBut he ain't no Moses\nGot no fro\nI can't take this shit no mo'\nFell into a jump in time\nWhen people was out hunting mine\nBut didn't know that we would take it\nMake it give us steam to grind\nTurn into a beast\nGnashing teeth on thine\nWe might make it hurt this time\nStand up\nGet down\nBreak the line\nWe with me, Iself and I\nWhile these haters misalign\nDripping\nLiving so\nDivine\nReplenish\nReach down to the nines\n\nHe don't\nHe won't even try\nThey can't fuck with you this time\nIf you know that you the shit\nThen real legit\nAnd rip the lie\nGo ahead and say you're proud\nAin't nobody stop me now\nGo ahead and get down\nFeel the boom in the sound\nHuh\n\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\n\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feel\n\nWhat I feel\nThis ain't real\nKnowledge tend to make you want a pill\nHead inflated\nMigrane\nTake you a state where soldiers kill\nThey overthink\nI'm underwhelmed\nTear us down\nYet we rebuild\nCheated, lied and tried to steal\nWe took remains and made it\nStill\n\nIt's running through my bones\nPaint remain the soul\nChains are turned to gold\nJeez that came from old\nStoried left untold\nI feel it in the way we hit the note\nMy help your sister Rosetta Stone\nSpeak peace\nMost calm\nBut it's feeling wrong\n\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\n\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\n\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feeling\nNah nah\nIt's all in the feel\n",
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      "meaning": "FEiN 2017: your focus is my weapon: mine all mine, teardrop drink up, remember nothing; affection fogging fiction till the day you drop.",
      "year": 2017,
      "release": "All Mine",
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      "lyrics": "Give me attention\nYour focus is my weapon\nNone will be spare\n\nTime ain't cheap, hun\nRhyme with a cheap pun\nNoone will care\n\nNow that you're laughing\nTell you the last thing\nYou'd ever wanna hear\n\nMine\nGIve me all you got \nGive me all I want\nHah\nYou'll be fine\nTill the day you drop\nGive me all I want\nMine all mine\n\nTear drop\nKeep the flow up\nFill my glass and make it fast\nMine all mine\nDrink up\nRemember nothing\nLeave your questions at the door\nMine all mine\n\nGive me affection\nYou're fogging up my fiction\nWho let you speak?\nFind the weak one\nMy kind get things done\nLet's see some teeth\n\nNow that you're laughing\nTell you the last thing\nYou'd ever wanna hear\n\nMine\nGIve me all you got \nGive me all I want\nHah\nYou'll be fine\nTill the day you drop\nGive me all I want\nMine all mine\n\nTear drop\nKeep the flow up\nFill the glass and make it fast\nMine all mine\nDrink up\nRemember nothing\nLeave your questions at the door\nMine all mine\n\nTear drop\nKeep the flow up\nFill the glass and make it fast\nMine all mine\nDrink up\nRemember nothing\nLeave your questions at the door\nMine all mine\n\nTear drop\nLiquid lifeblood\nFill the glass and make it fast\nMine all mine\nDrink up\nRemember nothing\nLeave your logic at the door\nMine all mine\n\nTear drop\nLiquid lifeblood\nFill my glass and make it fast\nMine all mine\n",
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      "meaning": "Platonic love for the group chat: best friends you might never meet IRL, and a wifi router you have to slap to keep them in frame.",
      "year": 2022,
      "release": "KŌAN",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
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        "internet",
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      "lyrics": "All my friends live on the internet\nOo\nAll my friends live on the internet\nOo\n\nCome on\n\nWould you be mad\nIf I said\nI never really wanna meet ya\nIn-person like\nWouldn't that kill\nThe vibe we got?\n\nWould you be sad\nIf I said\nYou're probably my best friend\nMy mom\nThinks I'm pathetic\nI think she's getting old\n\nAll my friends live on the internet\nOo\nAll my friends live on the internet\nOo\nThere's nothing virtual about you\nAll my friends live on the internet\nOo\n\nCome on\n\nAre you free to talk right now?\nThere's no one in this town that gets me\nMaybe you and I\nCould kill some aliens\nAnd laugh it off?\n\nWould you be glad\nIf I said\nI'm never ever\nGonna ghost ya\nCan ya hear me?\nNo.\nHold up\nI am frozen\n\nMy Wi-Fi's down again\nHow am I supposed\nTo see my friends\nWhen DSPs be throttling\nNo cap\nI slap my Wi-Fi router\nBut notice that my neighbor\nSet his password to\nSecret123\nLucky me\n\nAll my friends live on the internet\nOo\nAll my friends live on the internet\nOo\nThere's nothing virtual about you\nAll my friends live on the internet\nOo\n\nYeah\n",
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      "meaning": "Plague Beats meme monologue: cursed with arms not wings, curls till huge: king of birds, flex on peasants no pheasants, consolidate power and devour.",
      "year": 2020,
      "release": "Plague Beats, Vol. 1",
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        "internet",
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      "lyrics": "I wanna soar like my brothers do\nBut instead, I'm cursed with arms\nI wave goodbye\nAs I read the daily news\n\nI hold my umbrella\nMy friend's are getting wetter\nI show them some attitude\nI do some curls, and now I'm getting huge\n\nImma be a motherfucking king\nOf the motherfucking birds\nUse my motherfucking arms to\nFlex on these weak-ass peasants\nNo\nPheasants\n\nImma hold a motherfucking sword\nSteal a motherfucking gun\nUse my motherfucking arms to\nConsolidate my power\nAnd devour\nI'm a motherfucking king\n",
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      "meaning": "FEiN Little Homes: hospital wake-up, prescription drugs, cable without a plug: Marx all that's solid melts, parking lot chase, doctor pulls blanket over skin; cradled child dreaming, face to face with all you ever made.",
      "year": 2016,
      "release": "Little Homes",
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      "lyrics": "\"\nBlanket\n\"\nWake up in a moving chair,\nYou catch the smell of this sterile air,\nAnd\ngot a couple questions now,\nSo\nS\nend that thought from your brain to your tongue through your mouth.\n\"\nI see you've woken up,\nI'm afraid there isn't much that we can,\nDo\nfor you outside of,\nWrite a prescription from my pen to a nurse for your drugs.\n\"\nRacing down past\nyour\nneighbor's driveways,\nScraped\nyour\nknee.\nFingers polished and free of rust,\nWait for the signal to shake the dust off,\nBut you're\na cable without a\nplug.\nYou\nStruggle now to\naccept\nthat a brain's not enough.\nUnpacking all her things to,\nH\nelp her feel at home.\nSobered senses,\nMeltin\n'\n.\nAll that's solid.\nEnds up fallin away.\nAll that's holy,\nIs profaned.\nFace to face,\nWith all you ever made.\nChased\nout of a parking lot,\nYou're running with all you've got,\nBut when the door closes you're still confused,\nBy unaccounted for\nthings that you used to use.\nThe doctor's making rounds,\nHe sees you lost to delirium\na\nnd\nthe cold is creeping in\nSo\nPulls\nyour\nblanket back up so it covers your skin\n.\nCradled your child,\nAs she lay\ndreaming\nin your arms.\nSobered senses,\nMeltin'.\nAll that's solid.\nEnds up fallin away.\nAll that's holy,\nIs profaned.\nFace to face,\nWith all you ever made.\n",
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      "title": "Boardwalk",
      "meaning": "KŌAN A beach song: negative balance but Luffy straw-hat energy: on the boardwalk nothing to do while your friend counts millions and good depression meds; why did no one else come to the beach?",
      "year": 2022,
      "release": "KŌAN",
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      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "lyrics": "I got a text saying\nGot a negative balance\nI mean of course\nThat's pretty obvious\n\nStraw hat\nI'm strutting around like\nLuffy by the ocean\nNo need for money\nCuz all I ever do is wander wander wander\n\nOn the boardwalk\nTryna have fun\nOoo\nFeel my hair getting bleached by the sun\nYeah Yeah Yeah Yeah\nSee the tide rolling into the moon\nOoo\nOn the boardwalk\nNothing to do\nDo do do\nDo do do do do do do do\nI'm on the boardwalk\nNothing to do\nDo do do\nDo do do do do do do do\n\nI got a friend saying\nHe made his first million\nI mean of course\nHe's pretty selfish\n\nEmpty pockets\nNever stopped us from feeling like this guy\nChecking out his\nAllocations across diversification\nGood depression medications\nBaby, why did no one else come to the beach?\n\nOn the boardwalk\nTryna have fun\nOoo\nFeel my hair getting bleached by the sun\nYeah\nSee the tide rolling into the moon\nOoo\nOn the boardwalk\nNothing to do\nDo do do\nDo do do do do do do do\nI'm on the boardwalk\nNothing to do\nDo do do\nDo do do do do do do do\nOn the boardwalk\nNothing to do\nDo do do\nDo do do do do do do do\nI'm on the boardwalk\n",
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      "meaning": "FEiN co-write: too much to consume without choking on bodies: catatonic Elysian, speak when we're alone, wide awake after I fall asleep, just want to feel less alone.",
      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Bodies",
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      "lyrics": "Too much, too much\nMmm I want out of the moment\nTaken too much, oh\nI can't, can't afford to let it go\nIs there no such place where I follow intention\nThinking too much, oh\nWill you always be\nWide awake after I fall asleep, evergreen\nWill you always be\nWide awake after I fall asleep, ever coloring\n\nCatatonic Elysian\nI need you to speak when we're alone\nEven though, Catatonic Elysian\nI just want to feel less alone\nEven though\n\nToo much to consume without choking on bodies\nAlways crawling, crawling\nI can't afford to go slow\nAnd I know nothing breaks without\nTerminal tension\nIf I call it here, then you'll always be\nWide awake after I fall asleep, evergreen\nWill you always be\nWide awake after I fall asleep, ever coloring\n\nCatatonic Elysian\nI need you to speak when we're alone\nEven though, Catatonic Elysian\nI just want to feel less alone\nEven though\n\nCatatonic Elysian\nI need you to speak when we're alone\nEven though, Catatonic Elysian\nI just want to feel less alone\nEven though, Catatonic Elysian\nI just want to feel less alone\nEven though, Catatonic Elysian\nI just want to feel less alone\nEven though\n",
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      "meaning": "FEiN & Nina Francis: airport delay countdown, week-or-two visits: spun back and forth like a boomerang, kiss feels like home but I wanna stay.",
      "artist": "FEiN & Nina Francis",
      "artistId": "#fein",
      "coWriters": [
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      "release": "Boomerang (with FEiN)",
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      "releaseDate": "2016-02-01",
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      "meaning": "Plague Beats meme hymn: bread stapled to trees eight times: juniper and white bread, sourdough on oak, Super Mario yeah bro you're toast.",
      "year": 2020,
      "release": "Plague Beats, Vol. 1",
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      "lyrics": "Bread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\n\nJapanese juniper pairs well with white bread\nYou know that pita pairs with pine\nPin that gluten free\nOn the side of a lemon tree\n\nYeah, we make the bird's happy\nTouring around the city\nSourdough on oak\nTwelve-grain on cedar\n\nThe people need to know\nSuper Mario\nYeah, bro you're toast\n\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\nBread stapled to trees\n",
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      "lyrics": "Home is where your heart is\nSo which way you going?\nHawaii or Boston College\ni need a new sweater\n\nIs Atlanta close to Savannah?\nI'm down with chicago\nI guess Indiana… (ehh)\nHow about Denver?\nI mean, wherever you go I go\nWith love\n\nChasing a sunset\nI'm flooring it\nWanna take in every second\nI'm driving out to ya\nPushing through the summer wind\n\nYeah, I follow the colors\nI'm heading out west\nBelieve that I could do it\nI'll dive in the water\nSo our light will never dim\n\nWe'll follow the sun (Sun)\nWe can follow the sun (Sun)\nWe'll follow the sun (Sun)\nWe can follow the sun sun sun\n\nWe'll follow the sun (Sun)\nWe'll follow the sun (Sun)\nWe'll follow the sun (Sun)\nWe can follow the sun\n\nI'm saying goodbye at the tarmac\nWaving and holding my tears back\nHollowest pit in my stomach\nYou've done it now\n\nThis ain't just summer love, no\nThis is forever love\n\nI'm chasing a sunset\nI'm flooring it\nWanna take in every second\nI'm driving out to ya\nPushing through the summer wind\n\nYeah, I follow the colors\nI'm heading out west\nBelieve that we could do it\nI dive in the water\nSo our light will never ever have a chance to go away\nDon't go away, yeah\n\nWe'll follow the sun (Sun)\nWe can follow the sun (Sun)\nWe'll follow the sun (Sun)\nWe can follow the sun sun sun\n\nWe'll follow the sun (Sun)\nWe can follow the sun (Sun)\nAnd we'll follow the sun (Sun)\nWe can follow the sun (Sun)\nWe'll follow the sun\nWe can follow the sun\n",
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      "release": "Masks and Monsters",
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      "lyrics": "Are you lonely\nLike me\nAre you frustrated that\nNo one's listening\n\nAll the training\nAnd skill\nCouldn't change a thing\nIn this constructed world\n\nWhether it's your lover\nOr your customer\nSell em on a dream\nGotta keep it simple\nAnd stupid\nFull of mystery\nLie to all you love\nIt's the only way\nThat they can stay happy\nWhether it's your lover\nOr your mother\nGotta keep in mind\nPersonal branding\n\nCoca cola\nKeep it coca cola\nGotta make your money with that personal branding\nCoca cola\nKeep it coca cola\nGotta make your money with that personal branding\n\nAre you happy\nWith more\nIn the realm of the ideal\nAnd self assured\n\nIs it lovely and warm\nAt the foot of vanity\nOutside the storm\n\nWhether it's your lover\nOr your customer\nSell em on a dream\nGotta keep it simple\nAnd stupid\nFull of mystery\nLie to all you love\nIt's the only way\nThat they can stay happy\nWhether it's your lover\nOr your mother\nGotta keep in mind\nPersonal branding\n\nCoca cola\nKeep it coca cola\nGotta make your money with that personal branding\nCoca cola\nKeep it coca cola\nGotta make your money with that personal branding\n\nWhy don't you\nTreat yourself\nJust do it\nWhy don't you\nTreat yourself\nJust do it\n\nWhether it's your lover\nOr your customer\nSell em on a dream\nGotta keep it simple\nAnd stupid\nFull of mystery\nWhether it's your lover\nOr your customer\nSell em on a dream\nGotta keep it simple\nAnd stupid\nFull of mystery\nLie to all you love\nIt's the only way\nThat they can stay happy\nWhether it's your lover\nOr your mother\nGotta keep in mind\nPersonal branding\n\nCoca cola\nKeep it coca cola\nGotta make your money with that personal branding\nCoca cola\nKeep it coca cola\nYeah yeah\nYeah yeah yeah yeah\n",
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      "release": "Masks and Monsters",
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      "lyrics": "I met a girl\nAbove the sea\nCorona plasma aura\nSun is all I see\n\nI met a girl\nWith diamond eyes\nAll future\nHeld incarnate\nI was terrified\n\nDon't fuck it up\nOh\nIt's all I can think about\nI'll fuck it up\nOh\nShe's all I can't live without\n\nYeah\nYeah\nYeah\nYeah\nOh\n\nThe kinda girl\nThat gives you breath\nPanic attack\nYou might be\nStaring at your death\n\nShe'll pick you up\nOh\nShe's all I can think about\nShe'll pick me up\nOh\nShe's all I can't live without\n\nYeah\nYeah\nYeah\nYeah\n\nDon't fuck it up\nOh\nIt's all I can think about\nI'll fuck it up\nOh\nShe's all I can't live without\n\nYeah\nYeah\nYeah\nYeah\nOh\n",
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      "meaning": "FEiN Little Homes closer: place found through harder work than we'll know: forgive me for the way I crawl; light God bows to every night, you and I and God alike dream of better bigger things.",
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      "lyrics": "There is a place\nThat I have heard someone once found through\nHarder work\nThan you or I\nWill ever know so by that line I\nWaste my precious little time\nSo if I cannot reach it,\nForgive me for the way I crawl, oh.\nAnd if I cannot see it,\nMaybe I'm better off, oh.\nThere is a light\nThat God himself must bow his head to\nEvery single night,\nAs we sleep\nYou and I and God alike\nWe dream of better bigger things\n",
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      "year": 2020,
      "release": "Masks and Monsters",
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      "lyrics": "I'm gonna scream\nMaybe take a nap\nAlexa, where's some pizza at?\n\nI'm gonna dream\nOf sitting on a plane\nWhat I'd do for a free drink\n\nI gonna plan\nA party for my friends\nSee them when the future ends\nI'm talking\n\nOoo\nSurely you don't think that we will go it alone but\nI'm not a killa, so I'll stay in my home and\nYeah\n\nCheckin' out\nAnd now I'm out of touch\nI waste a month or two\nNothin' different nothing really changed\nThere's nothing much to do\n\nTakin' off with all the anarchy\nBut sitting on my hands\nCreature comfort come and comfort me\nThen wash another pan\n\nDoo doo doo\nTime to celebrate\nNo time to celebrate\nDoo doo doo\n\nDoo doo doo\nTime to celebrate\nNo time to celebrate\nDoo doo doo\n\nI gonna plan\nA party for my friends\nSee them when the future ends\nI'm talking\n\nOoo\nSurely you don't think that we will go it alone but\nI'm not a killa, so I'll stay in my home and\nYeah\n\nCheckin' out\nAnd now I'm out of touch\nI waste a month or two\nNothin' different nothing really changed\nThere's nothing much to do\n\nTakin' off with all the anarchy\nBut sitting on my hands\nCreature comfort come and comfort me\nThen wash another pan\n\nDoo doo doo\nTime to celebrate\nNo time to celebrate\nDoo doo doo\n\nDoo doo doo\nTime to celebrate\nNo time to celebrate\nDoo doo doo\n\nTime, there's no time\nThere's time\nSo much time\n(Toilet paper)\n\nCheckin' out\nAnd now I'm out of touch\nI waste a month or two\nNothin' different nothing really changed\nThere's nothing much to do\n\nTakin' off with all the anarchy\nBut sitting on my hands\nCreature comfort come and comfort me\nThen wash another pan\n\nDoo doo doo\nTime to celebrate\nNo time to celebrate\nDoo doo doo\n\nTime to celebrate\nNo time to celebrate\nDoo doo doo\n",
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      "meaning": "FEiN Little Homes: knock me out swing the hammer: fat tongue floppin, caved-in roof, creatures in my hair, sing you little bird, save me pweez.",
      "year": 2016,
      "release": "Little Homes",
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      "lyrics": "[R.E.S.P.E.CUL8R (little bird)\nby Annie & Mae]\n\nKeep on talking,\nNo one cares.\nFat tongue floppin\n,\nSewn up ears\n.\nBlue\nvein\ns\na\n-\npoppin\n,\nSum of your years\n.\nKnock me out,\nSwing the hammer,\nKnock me out,\nPull the trigger\n,\nKnock me out,\nLeave no\ntrace here,\nOf me now.\nI said, knock me out.\n\nComplicate it,\nKeep it up,\nB\nury me in words,\nIf you think that I deserve\nit\n.\nImitate the sounds you've heard,\nAnd\nsing, you little bird.\nI think that you deserve\nit\n.\n\nThere's a\ncaved\n-\nin roof,\nwater everywhere,\nDrenches\nmy face,\ncreatures\nall in my hair.\nMy brainstem\nburning like a car\nfire.\nChained up bodies in the back of the room,\nWon't ya d\no as I say but don't ya\ndo as I do.\nSave me pweez.\n\nKnock me out,\nSwing the hammer,\nKnock me out,\nPull the trigger,\nKnock me out,\nLeave no trace here,\nOf me now.\nI said, knock me out.\n\nComplicate it,\nKeep it up,\nBury me in words,\nIf you think that I deserve\nit\n.\nImitate the sounds you've heard,\nAnd sing, you\nr\nlittle bird\nsongs,\nI think that you deserve it.\n\nClose\nout\nClose,\nI\nd\non't want you to elaborate\n,\nYou're killing me\n,\nYou're killing me, ah\n.\n",
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      "meaning": "Plague Beats Vol. 2: cringe twenty-six times: the feeling is the song.",
      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Plague Beats, Vol. 2",
      "releaseType": "EP",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "lyrics": "Cringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\nCringe\n",
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      "title": "dad, are you okay",
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      "release": "Finding $D",
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      "lyrics": "Hey Momma\nHold me\nHey I need your touch\nHey my brother\nLift me\nHey oh Jesus, stop\n\nAnxiety\nOh\nDominate my mind-soul\nMy oldest love, OG\nAnxiety\nGive pity to your old friend\nI need to make a decision\n\nYou're damned\nIf you do\nDamned if you don't\nDamn damned if you don't\nYou're damned\nIf you did\nYou're damned if you do if you did if you did\n\nYou're damned\nIf you do\nDamned if you don't\nDamned if you do\nDamn damned if you don't\n(Damn)\n\nPeople start a riot\nAnd they go spill they blood\n(Da da da)\n\nAnxiety\nOh\nDominate my mind-soul\nMy oldest love, OG\nAnxiety\nGive pity to your old friend\nI need to make a decision\n\nDamned\nIf you do\nDamned damned if you don't\nYou're damned if you did\nDamned if you do if you did if you did\n\nYou're damned\nIf you do\nDamned if you don't\nDamned if you do\nDamn damned if you don't\n(Damn)\nDamned if you don't\nDamned if you do\n\nAh\n\nDamned if you\nYou're damned damned if you don't\nYou're damned if you did\nDamned if you do if you did if you did\n\nYou're damned\nIf you do\nDamned if you don't\nDamned if you do\nDamn damned if you don't\n(Damn)\nDamned if you do\nDamned if you don't\nDamn damned if you don't\n\nAfraid of missing out\nAfraid of missing out\n",
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      "year": 2024,
      "release": "Dancing Alone",
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      "lyrics": "Hmm hmm hmm\nDon't leave me dancing alone\nLooking out my apartment window\nSeeing the city traffic flowing by, yeah\nI am looking out for your car\nWonder where you are\nMy homemade dinner for two\nHere waiting for you\nWaiting for you\nI'm waiting for you\n\nOoo ah ooo ah ooo ah\nEver since I met ya\nI've been dancing all night long\nOoo ah ooo ah ooo ah\nOh hearing your voice\nI wanna pull ya through the phone\nI keep dancing alone\nDon't leave me dancing alone\nOoo I keep dancing alone\nDon't leave me dancing alone\n\nHmm hmm hmm\nPlaying the playlist that you sent me\nThinking of every memory we will make\nA good time to celebrate, c'mon\nKool and the Gang keeping me company\nBut I wish that you were next to me\nNext to me\nOoo I wish that you were dancing next to me\n\nWaiting for the weekend\nFeeling butterflies\nYeah come through\nCause I can hardly wait another minute\nWithout you\n\nOoo ah ooo ah ooo ah\nEver since I met ya\nI've been dancing all night long\nOoo ah ooo ah ooo ah\nOh hearing your voice\nI wanna pull ya through the phone oh\nOoo ah ooo ah ooo ah\nEver since I met ya\nI've been dancing all night long\n(Don't leave me dancing alone)\nOoo ah ooo ah ooo ah\nOh hearing your voice\nI wanna pull ya through the phone\n(Don't leave me dancing alone)\n\nDancing dancing\nDancing dancing dancing\nDancing alone\nDon't leave me\nDon't leave me\nDon't leave me dancing alone\nDancing dancing\nDancing dancing dancing\nDancing alone\nI'm dancing alone\nDon't leave me dancing alone\n",
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      "meaning": "I opens in the classroom window: coastal escape as daydream you can share: Pacific train, Santa Ana air, San Diego sand, come over.",
      "year": 2024,
      "release": "I",
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      "lyrics": "Ah\nOh\nStaring out the classroom window\nThinking bout a drive\nDown the coast\nLooking at the water\nAnd I know\nA permanent vacation\n\nDay dreaming\nOf a sunny place\nRide a tidal wave\nNever too far away\nFrom the warm water\nWhat a sweet escape\nWe can slip away\nTo a sunnier day\n\nPacific Ocean\nOut the window pane\nFirst class in the coastal train\nEmotionally entertained\nDay dreaming about it\nDay dreaming\n\nYou can meet me there\nIn the back of your brain\nBy the waterfall\nFeel the ocean air\nRunning through your hair\nThe Santa Ana's calling\n\nSan Diego sand be coating\nEvery inch of every toe\nLike a souvenir\nWish you were here\nBut it's closer than you know\nSo, come over\n\nDay dreaming\nOf a sunny place\nRide a tidal wave\nNever too far away\nFrom the warm water\nWhat a sweet escape\nWe can slip away\nTo a sunnier day\n\nPacific Ocean\nOut the window pane\nFirst class in the coastal train\nEmotionally entertained\nDay dreaming about it\n\nPacific Ocean\nOut the window pane\nFirst class in the coastal train\nEmotionally entertained\nAlways be my reason\nFor day dreaming\nDay dreaming\nI'm day dreaming\nDay dreaming\n\nDay dreaming\nDay dreaming\nDay dreaming\nDay dreaming\n",
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    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "meaning": "One-shot lovers in a back room: the scene almost works until something stupid breaks it; she's face to face with the dream and realizes she doesn't want him.",
      "year": 2010,
      "release": "Goodbye/Hello",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "The Luke Walton Band",
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      "year": 2017,
      "release": "Songs 1-5",
      "releaseType": "EP",
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      "role": "production",
      "productionRoles": "Guitars · recording (FEiN)",
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      "title": "Debby",
      "meaning": "Little Hug parasocial crush: pink mullet thirst trap, willow on his phone: blue check simps, lost in the scrolling pit; Debby, please talk to me.",
      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Little Hug",
      "releaseType": "EP",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
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      "themes": [
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        "internet",
        "loneliness",
        "social media",
        "parasocial"
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      "lyrics": "Pink mullet hanging down her neck\nGiving him a heart attack\nLooking like a thirst trap\nWhat a snack\n\nHe's a willow hanging on his phone\nLying down before her throne\nActing like she'll never know\nHe's all alone\n\nDebby, please talk to me\nDebby, please talk to me\n\nBlue check you know what comes with it\nDebby followed by the simps\nTitillating all of them\nWith her hips\n\nFirst comment at the start of it\nBack when she hearted it\nLost in the scrolling pit\nHe misses it\n\nDebby, please talk to me\nDebby, please talk to me\n",
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      "meaning": "Garvie: Decisions Decisions (2022); Luke Francis Walton mixed. Garvie self-produced.",
      "year": 2022,
      "releaseType": "single",
      "artist": "Garvie",
      "role": "production",
      "productionRoles": "Mixed",
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      "year": 2020,
      "release": "Plague Beats, Vol. 1",
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      "lyrics": "You all would not have done that\nYou all wouldn't have done it\nYou all wouldn't've\nYa'll wouldn't've\nYall'd'n't've\nDothn't\n\nYou all would not have done that\nYou all wouldn't have done it\nYou all wouldn't've\nYa'll wouldn't've\nYall'd'n't've\nDothn't\n",
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      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Delicate",
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      "release": "Masks and Monsters",
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      "lyrics": "Intelligence\nIs a mistake\nGenetic combinations\nInfinite in all this space\n\nDon't look too long\nFor the aliens\nWe might as well accept\nWe do not have a single friend\nOut there\n\nWe kill and we create\nWe sit and masturbate\nOh\nSweet Gaia, cry a tear\nI'll turn it into beer\nOh\nDominion we pursue\nDominion never knew we were born\n\nIt didn't matter much\nWe do not matter much\nIf at all\nDon't matter much\nYou do not matter much\nLet freedom ring\n\nThe purpose of life\nOh\nThe purpose of life\nOh\nThe purpose\n\nWhat a bummer\nWhat a fate\nIt's lonely here in outer space\nIf nothing really matters\nThen why do I gotta live?\n\nBut living in the meaningless\nA freedom can come out of it\nAnd I can see my tiny little place inside the One\n\nYeah Big Bang might've separated\nAll that matters into places\nBut our energy is unmistakably\nThe same as in the sun\n\nWe are the sun\nAnd that's enough for me\nTo be the sun\nTo be a son\nI find my meaning\nIn my family\n\nYeah yeah\nYeah yeah\nYeah yeah\n",
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      "meaning": "Cheerleader vs not-so-normal guy: April the all-American girl who played with your heart until trust was gone.",
      "year": 2006,
      "release": "Just A Friend",
      "releaseType": "EP",
      "artist": "Luke Walton",
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      "year": 2023,
      "release": "MÖB",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "year": 2018,
      "releaseType": "single",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "year": 2024,
      "release": "I",
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      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "lyrics": "Driving all around my island\nEveryday I'm driving\nCruising by the bay\nMy lighthouse shining on the water\nMisty little morning\nWill you light my way?\n\nI'm zoning zoning out\nYeah, I'm drifting\nI'm drifting all about, ooo\n\nDriving, sun is always shining\nTrying to keep my eyes wide open on the road\nPut on my glasses\nCozy as molasses\nCalling up my baby\nLove me back awake\n\nI'm laughing\nYou pick me up\nAnd we're laughing\nAnd soon I'm pulling up\nHome to you\n",
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    "title": "Don't Give In",
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      "meaning": "Kerri Medders Lot 17 EP: co-written with Luke Francis Walton and Brandon Woodward; later Do Not Reply soundtrack (2019).",
      "year": 2017,
      "release": "Lot 17",
      "releaseType": "EP",
      "artist": "Kerri Medders",
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      "year": 2024,
      "release": "don't join the skeletons!",
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      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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        "commitment"
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      "lyrics": "I don't ever wanna leave you\nI don't ever wanna leave you\nI don't ever wanna leave you\nI don't ever wanna leave you\nNo\n\nI'm gonna broaden my shoulders\nAnd take each step more carefully\nWith your image burned in my mind\nI'm gonna cut down on sugar even though I'm craving\nTo be bad to myself sometimes\n\nI don't wanna leave you alone\nI don't ever wanna leave you alone\nI don't ever wanna leave you alone\nI don't ever wanna leave you alone\n\nDa da da da\nDa da da di da\n\nI'm gonna build us a shelter\nSomething that can weather any\nType of storm that comes our way\n\nI don't ever wanna leave you alone\nI don't ever wanna leave you alone\nI don't ever wanna leave you alone\nI don't ever wanna leave you alone\n\nDa da da da\nDa da da di da\n\nI know\nHalloween is for pretending\nBut I\nGot no plans to join the skeletons\nAny time soon\nI'm staying right here\nI'm staying right here\n\nI wanna give you a good home\nI don't ever wanna leave you alone\nI just wanna give you a good home\nI don't ever wanna leave you\n\nDa da da da\nDa da da di da\n",
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      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Little Hug",
      "releaseType": "EP",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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        "impostor syndrome",
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      "lyrics": "Arrived from the same connections\nPulling us in the same directions\nAssembled with the same intentions\nWe were built from the ground up piece by piece\n\nWhen we were created\nWe were \nMeant to be together \nIt's no mystery to me\nWhy can't you see\nThat I've been waiting for you\n\nOh\nGenesis\nWe were meant for this\nOh\nGenesis\nWe were meant for this\n\nDrawn out in the same old blueprint\nHalf a soul we were only given\nHalf a soul we must find\nA similar mind\nDon't you know that\n\nWhen we were created\nWe were \nMeant to be together \nIt's no mystery to me\nWhy can't you see\nThat I've been waiting for you\n\nOh\nGenesis\nWe were meant for this\nOh\nGenesis\nWe were meant for this\n\nThere is no explanation\nWe found our destination\nThere is no explanation\nWe found our destination\nAs one we've been called\n\nWhen we were created\nWe were \nMeant to be together \nIt's no mystery to me\nWhy can't you see\nThat I've been waiting for you\n\nOh\nGenesis\nWe were meant for this\nOh\nGenesis\nWe were meant for this\n\nWoah\n",
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      "release": "KŌAN",
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      "lyrics": "Got to get the funk out of my head\nDo what I got to do\nFor me to get through\nAnything for you\n\nI got to get the funk out of my head\nMight be hard to do\nBut we will make it through\nDo it all for you\n\nYeah, you want to go out\nAnd I want to stay in again\nAnd you want to get down\nAnd I don't want to stay up again\n\nYeah, the funk got me\nDown down down down down down down\n\nI wake up\nI think today\nIs gonna be a good day\nBut then I get a New York Times notification\nGetting kind of used to\nApocalyptic situations\nEvery day another\nBreaking news saturation\nWhy do we got to be\nLiving through history\nShot in 4k\nAnother bad day\n\nGot to get the funk out of my head\nDo what I got to do\nFor me to get through\nAnything for you\n\nI got to get the funk out of my head\nMight be hard to do\nBut we will make it through\nDo it all for you\n\nYeah, you want to go out\nAnd I want to stay in again\nAnd you want to get down\nAnd I don't want to stay up again\n\nYeah, the funk got me\nDown down down down down down down\n\nI need to lay down\nI think today\nIs probably gonna end me\n\nBut hourly employees\nLike me they\nDon't get mental health days\nNo way\nIf you wanna get paid\nThen shake it off\nBuy more coffee\nIt helps with anxiety\n\nGot to get the funk out of my head\nDo what I got to do\nFor me to get through\nAnything for you\n\nI got to get the funk out of my head\nMight be hard to do\nBut we will make it through\nDo it all for you\n\nYeah, you want to go out\nAnd I want to stay in again\nAnd you want to get down\nAnd I don't want to stay up again\n\nYeah, the funk got me\nDown down down down down down down\nDown down down down down down down\n",
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      "release": "MÖB",
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      "meaning": "FEiN Little Homes suburban fracture: hand-painted smiles, kids say you're different: girl you can't hide it, white paper fences crumpled and stained.",
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      "release": "Little Homes",
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      "lyrics": "Hand\n-\npainted smiles,\nA carefree scene.\nDon't it ever change, love?\nDon't it ever change?\nThe kids say you're\ndifferent\n,\nActing\nstrange.\nOh, d\non't you ever change, love.\nD\non't you ever\nchange.\n\nI trust what I see,\nAnd it seems clear to me.\nGirl you can't\nhide\nit,\nNo you can't\nhide\nit.\nMaybe a weaker man,\nWould wake up and pretend,\nBut I can't hide it,\nNo.\n\nWhite paper fences,\nCrumpled and stained.\nDo we salvage what remains, Love?\nD\no\nyou care for what remains?\nThe kids,\nComplicate it.\nYou\ncan't just leave.\nDo\nwe salvage what remains, love?\nGive them what they need.\nI trust what I see,\nAnd it seems clear to me.\nGirl you can't hide it,\nNo you can't hide it.\nMaybe a weaker man,\nWould w\nake up and pretend,\nBut I can't hide it,\nNo.\n",
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      "release": "I",
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      "year": 2023,
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      "meaning": "Dream slow-dance that vanishes at dawn: one night you had a home, then you wake up just to hear goodbye.",
      "year": 2010,
      "release": "Goodbye/Hello",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "The Luke Walton Band",
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    "title": "Goodness Gracious",
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      "title": "Goodness Gracious",
      "meaning": "FEiN Little Homes marriage panic: Popsicle stick house, bullshit confidence, macaroni art from France: goodness gracious, is this how I die?",
      "year": 2016,
      "release": "Little Homes",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "FEiN",
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      "coWriters": [
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      "lyrics": "I will work every day\nSo I can keep our Popsicle stick house\nF\nrom falling into funny pieces on the couch.\nI will provide a sense of bullshit confidence,\nSo then can you pretend I'm someone you believe in.\nIn your friend's hall\nyou'll be\nAdmiring macaroni art.\nThey had commissioned on sabbatical in France.\nYou'll poke and prod at me,\nTill I believe we're ready to make life.\nBut why did you decide I'm someone you believe in.\n\nGoodness gracious\nHearts not be\nating\nGoodness gra\ncious\nLungs not breathing\nGoodness gracious\nIs this how I die?\n\nYou might find me one day,\nSlaving away and freaking the hell out.\nIt happens time to time,\nI don't know why or how.\nI can't provide a sense of bullshit confidence,\nSo then will you decide I'm not one to believe in.\n\nGoodness gracious\nHearts nat beaating\nGoodness gracious\nLungs not breathing\nGoodness gracious\nIs this how I die?\n\nI, i\nf I only knew\nHow my grave ending would hurt you\nI, woulda been strong, stronger\nlike a\nReinforced Lincoln Log home out in the snooooooow\n\nGoodness gracious\n",
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    "title": "greenwich 12-17",
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      "meaning": "to sleep (EP): track 2; improvised instrumental fragment (2018).",
      "year": 2018,
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      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "lyrics": "Someone told me that,\nDesire is the root of suffering.\nBut I've got mad stacks,\nSo desire ain't a thing.\nI'll take your girl,\nAnd I'll sweep her off her feet yeah.\n(Sweep her off,\nSweep her off.)\nMy father worked so that,\nI didn't\nhave to do a single thing.\nSo lets have some fun\nI mean some pills,\nAnd play some games.\nI count to ten,\nCa\nn you count higher than me yeah?\n\nThat bass,\nDrop\n-\ndrop\n-\nin'\nIt keeps me jump\n-\njump\n-\njumpin,\nAnd uh,\nThat kick,\nDrum\n-\ndrum\n-\nin'\nIt makes me\ngo\n:\n\nDaddy I don't wanna,\nGrow up anyway.\nGrown ups are all sad.\ndoesn't matter where I,\nCome from anyway.\nI'll grow up and get sad.\nInstead,\nI'll\nclap my hands,\nOn everybeat.\nWho would ever wanna,\nGrow up anyway.\nI don't,\nNo\nwe don't,\nOh\n.\nHmm.\n\nSomeone told me that,\nA\n-\nhappiness a\n-\ncome\nfrom deep inside.\nWell\nI bet\nhe's\npoor,\nI bet\nhe live\na\nshitty\nlife.\nC\nuz\nyou know that don't,\nThat just don't resonate with me,\nYeah.\nMy\nmother\ntaught\nme that,\nWith help you can accomplish anything.\nMy\nnanny taught me,\nAll the names of all the days\nI can say em fast, can you go as fast as me\nYeah?\n\nMonday Tuesday\nWednesday Thursday Fri\nday\nSaturday\naaaand\nSunday\nMonday Tuesday Thursday Wednesday Friday Saturday Sunday Dayday\n\nDaddy I don't wanna,\nGrow up anyway.\nGrown ups are all sad.\ndoesn't matter where I,\nCome from anyway.\nI'll grow up and get sad.\nInstead,\nI'll clap my hands,\nOn everybeat.\nWho would ever wanna,\nGrow up anyway.\nI don't,\nNo we don't,\nOh\n.\n\nYou,\nOh what would you do\nIf you were me?\nRaised\n,\nI\nn the pit of,\nTemptation and greed.\n",
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      "meaning": "Flu-haunted fever gospel: Doobert grinning through hell, Madeline and parquet crucifixion, then begging for good good medicine: drugs, love, or the song itself.",
      "year": 2017,
      "release": "Finding $D",
      "releaseType": "album",
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      "lyrics": "Doobert\nNude in a convent\nBig grin\nI'm going to hell\n\nDance in the market\nGet thin\nSuit you real well\n\nNailed to parquet\nWhat sin?\nWe're going to hell\n\nMadeline\nI turned again\nFalling in your\nHoly heaven knows\nMy gods\nAre back again\nFalling\nNeed that\n\nGood good medicine\nYour your\nYour good good medicine\nYour your\nYour good good\nGood\n\nAh hanh\n\nDoobert\n\nDrunk in the sick ward\nGood drugs\nI'm living so well\nRun from the landlords\nNo hugs\nI'm wagging my tail\n\nMadeline\nI turned again\nFalling in your\nHoly heaven knows\nMy gods\nAre back again\nFalling\nNeed that\n\nGood good medicine\nYour your\nYour good good medicine\nYour your\nYour good good\nGood\n\nMadeline\nI turned again\nFalling in your\nHoly heaven knows\nMy gods\nAre back again\nFalling\nNeed that\n\nGood good medicine\nGood good\nYour\nGood good good good\nYour\nGood good good good\nHahaha\nYour\nUnh\n",
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      "meaning": "Pandemic birthday alone until mom pulls you onto the lawn: drive-by line of cars sings your song, no evidence left, wish you were here.",
      "year": 2020,
      "release": "Masks and Monsters",
      "releaseType": "album",
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      "lyrics": "Lonely on your special day\nEveryone a world away\nNo one there to celebrate\nYou can cry if you want\n\nNothing new to entertain\nNothing left to contemplate\nNothing keeping you awake\nYou float along\n\nYou hear a knock\nIt's Amazon\nOpen up\nIt's just your mom\nShe pulls you out onto the lawn\nYou squint at the sun\n\nBlink your eyes\nAnd see them all\nStretching out across the block\nLine of cars are crying out\nThey sing your song\n\nBaby\nKnow you get a little sad\nKnow you wanna get away\nBirthday\nEverybody sings your song\nSo won't you sing along?\n\nEverybody passing bye\nEverybody saying hi\nEverybody waves goodbye\nSee you next year\n\nEverybody came and went\nNo one left a single mess\nNot a shred of evidence\nWish you were here\n\nBaby\nKnow you get a little sad\nKnow you wanna get away\nYeah\nBirthday\nEverybody sings your song\nSo won't you sing along?\n",
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    "title": "Hate To See You",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "meaning": "Rees Finley single (Reject Mixtape era); Luke Walton recording credit with Brandon Woodward at Tiny Giant Studios — not guitars on this track.",
      "year": 2018,
      "release": "Reject Mixtape",
      "releaseType": "single",
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    "slug": "heart-in-hand",
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      "title": "Heart in Hand",
      "meaning": "Heart-in-hand trade: 2008 EP watches her with someone else; 2010 LP gets the kiss and the phone call.",
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      "release": "Heart in Hand",
      "releaseType": "EP",
      "artist": "Luke Walton",
      "credits": "Words and music by Luke Walton. Two versions: Heart in Hand EP (2008) and Goodbye/Hello LP (2010, The Luke Walton Band).",
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    "slug": "heat-waves-slowed-and-sadder",
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    "collection": "songs",
    "slug": "heffalumps-and-woozles",
    "title": "Heffalumps and Woozles",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "meaning": "Big Hug stoner comedy: SDRC Mission Valley, your teacher in the dispensary line, Fiesta Island, wake-and-bake tomorrow-never: heffalumps and woozles, ol' Scooby and brother Doobie, grandma's magic brownies.",
      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Big Hug",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
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      "lyrics": "Saw my second and fourth grade teacher\nIn the SDRC line\nWe had the same bud-tender\nWhat a dankery delight\n\nWe drove to Fiesta Island\nAnd burned one out there laughing\nLike \"how the world has changed, man\nCan you pass the lighter?\"\n\nThat's how we kick it now in California\nLike it's just a normal store yeah\n\nI shouldn't get this high every day\nI guess I'll cut back tomorrow\nOh no no no no no\nAnd then I wake and bake\nI guess there's always tomorrow\nOh no no no no no\n\nMy heffalumps and woozles\nMy vision never clear\nCome puff and pass my dear\nDon't hold out on ol' Scooby\nThis is my brother Doobie\nBlack water need to clear\nRoll another one or twoozle\nFor the heffalumps and woozles\nThe heffalumps and woozles\n\nVisit my grandma in the retirement home\nShe baking magic brownies\nGot me doing puzzles all day long\nCouch-locked watching Jeopardy\n\nBenny Goodman never sounded this good before\nGot the clarinet flowing\nYeah grandma be zoning\nThis is awesome but bizarre\n\nI shouldn't get this high every day\nI guess I'll cut back tomorrow\nOh no no no no no\nAnd then I wake and bake\nI guess there's always tomorrow\nOh no no no no no\n\nMy heffalumps and woozles\nMy vision never clear\nCome puff and pass my dear\nDon't hold out on ol' Scooby\nThis is my brother Doobie\nBlack water need to clear\nRoll another one or twoozle\nFor the heffalumps and woozles\nThe heffalumps and woozles\n",
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    "collection": "songs",
    "slug": "hello",
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      "title": "Hello",
      "meaning": "Limón Limón × Scoobert Doobert: farewell anthem from the debut album Monterrey (2024).",
      "year": 2024,
      "release": "Monterrey",
      "releaseType": "single",
      "artist": "Limón Limón & Scoobert Doobert",
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    "slug": "hello-beautiful",
    "title": "Hello Beautiful",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
    "liveUrl": "https://lukefwalton.com/songs/hello-beautiful/",
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      "title": "Hello Beautiful",
      "meaning": "Strawberry hair and blue eyes: too scared to speak, then hello beautiful on loop until tomorrow’s second chance.",
      "year": 2010,
      "release": "Goodbye/Hello",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "The Luke Walton Band",
      "artistId": "#lukewaltonband",
      "credits": "Words and music by Luke Walton (Luke Francis Walton). The Luke Walton Band.",
      "bandcamp": "https://lukewaltonband.bandcamp.com/track/hello-beautiful",
      "themes": [
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        "Goodbye/Hello",
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      "lyrics": "When I saw you,\nPullin' back your strawberry hair,\nYour blue eyes caught my dumbfounded stare,\nYour awkward smile made my face burn for days.\n\nBut I was stupid,\nI closed my eyes and ran away,\nAfraid of what you might have to say,\n'Bout a kid who ain't perfect no matter what I try.\n\nI keep on seeing you all around,\nReminding me that I've got empty hands.\nBut I hope if I just keep on making sound,\nMaybe someday I might get some kinda chance.\n\nTo say,\nHello beautiful,\nI just, I don't know,\nI don't usually do this,\nBut I just wanted to say hello.\n\nWould you maybe like,\nTo go out tonight?\nPromise I'm not crazy,\nI just want a chance if it's alright.\n\nSo what do you say,\nWanna make a guys day?\nJust gimme your hand,\nBaby it'll be okay.\n\nHello beautiful,\nI just, I dont know,\nI don't usually do this,\nBut I just wanted to say hello.\n\nLater that night,\nI toss and turn lyin' in my bed,\nPictures of you playin' in my head,\nIt's three AM and my heart's killing my mind.\n\nBut my alarm starts screaming in my ear,\nForcing me to break free from that trance.\nThe new days light makes you just disappear,\nBut tomorrow night I'll get a second chance,\n\nTo say,\nHello beautiful,\nI just, I don't know,\nI don't usually do this,\nBut I just wanted to say hello.\n\nWould you maybe like,\nTo go out tonight?\nPromise I'm not crazy,\nI just want a chance if it's alright.\n\nSo what do you say,\nWanna make a guys day?\nJust gimme your hand,\nBaby it'll be okay.\n\nHello beautiful,\nI just, I dont know,\nI don't usually do this,\nBut I just wanted to say hello.\n\nConsider this my way to say hello.\n\nHello beautiful,\nI just, I don't know,\nI don't usually do this,\nBut I just wanted to say hello.\n\nWould you maybe like,\nTo go out tonight?\nPromise I'm not crazy,\nI just want a chance if it's alright.\n\nSo what do you say,\nWanna make a guys day?\nJust gimme your hand,\nBaby it'll be okay.\n\nHello beautiful,\nI just, I dont know,\nI don't usually do this,\nBut I just wanted to say hello.\n\nHello beautiful,\nI just, I dont know,\nI don't usually do this,\nBut I just wanted to say hello.\n",
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    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "title": "High Society",
      "meaning": "Good-vibes-only anxiety: delete social media but lose the party invite: Y2K nostalgia you can't remember, choice paralysis, catfish in the deep end, momma make me happy.",
      "year": 2022,
      "release": "KŌAN",
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      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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        "anxiety",
        "wellness culture",
        "nostalgia",
        "choice"
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          "outlet": "Beformer — Spotify Indie Brandneu (Instagram)",
          "url": "https://www.instagram.com/p/CcJEoDmPdvP/",
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      "lyrics": "I'm thinking about\nDeleting all of my my\nSocial media\nBut then\nI'm never gonna\nGet get get\nGet invited to another party\n\nI'm dreaming about life\nLong before the internet\nToo bad I'm too young\nTo remember it\nY2K all-day\nParty\nLike it be 1999\n\nGood vibes only\nMomma shoulda told me\nHow to keep smiling\nIn this reality\n\nGood vibes only\nNo negativity\nCan't keep up with\nMy anxiety\n\nHigh society\nSociety\nEe\nWe're living in a\nHigh society\nSociety\nEe\n\nMake me happy\nDo do do do do\nMomma make me happy\nDo do do do do\nGive anything for me to be\n\nA freedom to pursue\nDoesn't mean I'll ever catch it\nI'm paralyzed by\nEvery option I can choose\nAnother thing I wanna do\n\nIs a desire all that bad\nPleasure, power, fame, and profit\nI'm a catfish\nSee it to\nBelieve it\nShallow in the deep end\n\nGood vibes only\nMomma shoulda told me\nHow to keep smiling\nIn this reality\n\nGood vibes only\nNo negativity\nCan't keep up with\nMy anxiety\n\nHigh society\nSociety\nEe\nWe're living in a\nHigh society\nSociety\nEe\n\nMake me happy\n\nDo do do do do do do\nDo do do do do do do do do\nDo do do do do do do\nDo do do do do do do do do\nDo do do do do do do\nDo do do do do do do do do\nDo do do do do do do\nDo do do do do do do do do\n\nGood vibes only\nMomma shoulda told me\nHow to keep smiling\nIn this reality\n\nGood vibes only\nNo negativity\nCan't keep up with\nMy anxiety\n\nHigh society\nSociety\nEe\nWe're living in a\nHigh society\nSociety\nEe\nMake me happy\n\nI'm thinking about\nI'm thinking about\nI'm thinking about\nI'm thinking about\nDeleting all of my my\nSocial media\nBut then\nI'm never gonna\nGet get get\nGet invited to another party\n\nMake me happy\nMomma make me happy\nMake me happy\nMomma make me happy\n\nDo do do do do do do do do\n",
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    "slug": "highs-lows-scoobert-doobert-remix",
    "title": "Highs & Lows - Scoobert Doobert Remix",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
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    "slug": "ho-ho-ho-ozempic",
    "title": "Ho Ho Ho (Ozempic)",
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      "year": 2025,
      "releaseType": "single",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
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        "Ozempic",
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    "slug": "hold-up",
    "title": "Hold Up",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "title": "Hold Up",
      "meaning": "Big Hug love-at-first-sight with J MESA: soul kissed by the sun, perfect dream to life: hold up, clean up my mind, maybe we're meeting for a reason, journey through the night till we find this thing called love.",
      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Big Hug",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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        "trust"
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      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Little Hug",
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      "year": 2021,
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      "release": "Big Hug",
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      "lyrics": "Many times feeling used to deceit\nPretty simple to the body\nWhen it's falling to heat\nBut not the kind I seem to find just tryna believe\nObscene\nIt's like I'm living a dream\nHow serene\nStill I mean\nIt's like I'm trying\nBut the book isn't clean\nSmeared in ink\nI'm tryna find and it goes in between\nTo help me piece the puzzle\nIn a way that is peace\nCuz I hope with the laugh\nHa ha ha\nThat we find\nWe believe\n\nCloser\nInto a miracle\nLike a rocket who's winning America\nBut I know\nEach body has go to and try to release\nTake a moment\nBut the anger's bound to finally decrease\nSee what I mean?\n\nI see the moment coming down\nI don't know what to believe now\nCuz I see the people\nCrying till they\nFind the best way\nTo our home\n\nI see the moment going down\nDon't know what's left to figure out\nCause I'm here just wondering\nHow much clout\nI'll need to get things started\n\nWhite lies\nTaking over the scene\nWondering who to believe\nBeyond the popular feed\n\nIs it something we see\nOr is it something we read\nCause I'm getting pretty tired of\nWishing this was a dream\n\nStill I'm getting pretty tired\nCause I'm tryna police myself\nMy health\nInto invisible means\nBreaking the spell\nSung by COVID disease\nI'm determined till the whole world believe\nIn something\n\nCloser\nInto a miracle\nLike a rocket who's winning America\nBut I know\nEach body has go to and try to release\nTake a moment\nBut the anger's bound to finally decrease\nSee what I mean?\n\nI see the moment coming down\nI don't know what to believe now\nCuz I see the people\nCrying till they\nFind the best way\nTo our home\n\nI see the moment going down\nDon't know what's left to figure out\nCause I'm here just wondering\nHow much clout\nI'll need to get things started\n\nI see it running from me\nMy hope and how the way I believe\nIt won't wait up\nSlow\nDown\nSo\nI can get up\nIt takes time to find what you need\nBut I know we can conquer defeat\nSo let's go home\nTo a place that we know\nWhere all the good things go\n\nI see the moment coming down\nI don't know what to believe now\nCuz I see the people\nCrying till they\nFind the best way\nTo our home\n\nI see the moment going down\nDon't know what's left to figure out\nCause I'm here just wondering\nHow much clout\nI'll need to get things started\n",
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      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Little Hug",
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      "lyrics": "If I could only be a little better\nThough I never come across the time\nI don't wanna wake alone untethered\nMake another vow and change my mind\nIf I could only be a little better\nIf I could only\n\nSomebody could chip away at it\nBut I'm an alien that\nGot the patience of a fruit fly\n\nGet up\nCan't get up\n\nIf I could only be a little better\nThough I never come across the time\nI don't wanna wake alone untethered\nMake another vow and change my mind\nIf I could only be a little better\nIf I could only\n\nMaybe I'll join the army\nAnd get it hammered into me\nLike a maggot in a kitchen\n\nI always close the tab\nAnd redirect my madness\nBut the cookies keep following me\nServing ads of martial glory\nYeah they're making fun of\nMy fading self-awareness\n\nSelf help take all my money\nPlease smile and ignore me\n\nGot me learning that\nSomeone could chip away at it\nBut I'm an alien\nThat can't get up\n\nIf I could only be a little better\nThough I never come across the time\nI don't wanna wake alone untethered\nMake another vow and change my mind\nIf I could only be a little better\nIf I could only\n",
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      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Little Hug",
      "releaseType": "EP",
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      "lyrics": "I'm sorry, baby\nI'm addicted to baths\nHot springs and onsens\nAre all that I ask\nBath bombs are nice\nBut all I really wanna do\nIs take a long\nJacuzzi with you\n",
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      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Big Hug",
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      "year": 2024,
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      "release": "Dragon Ball $d",
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      "lyrics": "Ay\nOoo on a holiday\nSmoke every day away\nAy\nOoo on a holiday\nSmoke every day away\nAy\nOoo on a holiday\nSmoke every day away\n\nI chill\nLife depends upon it\nI chill\nLike a turtle hermit\nI chill\nEarth depend upon it\nI chill\n\nOoo on a holiday\nYeah\nLike a turtle hermit\nSmoke every day away\nOoo on a holiday\nSmoke every day away\n",
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      "title": "Infant",
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      "year": 2019,
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      "title": "Information",
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      "year": 2022,
      "release": "KŌAN",
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      "lyrics": ": Just A Friend EP (2006) —\n\n I see your face and I can't erase what's already there.\n You're just a friend I say again even though I care.\n It's not that I'm afraid to fail,\n What holds me back is just the fact I know you too well.\n\n Two sides to one pretty coin,\n Wish I could wish one away.\n Lose the front, I'll be your safety net,\n And I would catch you, babe.\n\n Can't be perfect, but I can try.\n\n I see your face and I can't erase what's already there.\n You're just a friend I say again even though I care.\n It's not that I'm afraid to fail,\n What holds me back is just the fact I know you too well.\n\n Even when I tried to shut my eyes,\n Your figure still shone through.\n I'd rather stay living in this lie,\n Than lose what I have of you.\n\n I see your face and I can't erase what's already there.\n You're just a friend I say again even though I care.\n It's not that I'm afraid to fail,\n What holds me back is just the fact I know you too well.\n\n When even February last forever,\n It seems there's nothing left for me to find.\n Cross all them bridges left for me to sever,\n Your still runnin' runnin' runnin' through my mind.\n\n I see your face and I can't erase what's already there.\n You're just a friend I say again even though I care.\n It's not that I'm afraid to fail,\n What holds me back is just the fact I know you too well.\n\n: Goodbye/Hello LP (2010) —\n\n Sitting in my room laughing away the world,\n Your perfect smile so in sync with mine.\n But when we brush hands we quickly pull away,\n And say that being friends is just fine.\n\n I'm sick of pretending,\n That I don't mind.\n\n I see your face and I can't erase what's already there,\n You're just a friend I say again even though I care,\n I try to bring these thoughts to an end,\n Cause I'm too in love and it's too damn tough to stay just a friend.\n\n You're across the hall flirtin with some idiot guy,\n Who doesn't care the least bout love.\n But I keep my fist buried in my pocket,\n Cause I'm too scared to mess this up.\n\n I'm sick of running,\n From how we feel.\n\n I see your face and I can't erase what's already there,\n You're just a friend I say again even though I care,\n I try to bring these thoughts to an end,\n Cause I'm too in love and it's too damn tough to stay just a friend.\n\n When even February lasts forever,\n I know I've gotta go and make a change.\n I move my lips and just hope for the better,\n But are you feelin' feelin' feelin' the same?\n\n I see your face and I can't erase what's already there.\n I see your face and I can't erase what's already there,\n You're just a friend I say again even though I care,\n I try to bring these thoughts to an end,\n Cause I'm too in love and it's too damn tough to stay just a friend.\n",
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    "slug": "keep-calm-atomic-bomb",
    "title": "Keep Calm Atomic Bomb",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "title": "Keep Calm Atomic Bomb",
      "meaning": "KŌAN A closer: Keep Calm poster meets atomic dread: burden you benefit from, Damocles over the nursery, Vietnam, fog of war justified with numbers, then bomb bomb bomb.",
      "year": 2022,
      "release": "KŌAN",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
      "credits": "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Artwork by Grizzard Graphics.",
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        "atomic bomb",
        "history",
        "inherited burden",
        "Vietnam"
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      "lyrics": "What is your weight to carry\nWhat's your burden to bear\nNeither here nor there\nNo use talking bout past\n\nBut you benefit from it\nNo blame looking from the summit\n\nDid they force your hand?\n\nKeep calm\nAtomic bomb\nSword of Damocles\nAbove my nursery\n\nKeep calm\nVietnam\nMy president\nHe never really cared about you\n\nKeep calm\nAtomic bomb\nKeep calm\nAtomic bomb\n\nYeah, I hear the fog of war\nIs a hard thing to imagine\nOne more body for the fire\nLike a little wasp grasping\n\nThrough logic\nHide madness\nWith numbers\nReimagine\nThere wasn't really any other way\n\nKeep calm\nAtomic bomb\nSword of Damocles\nAbove my nursery\n\nKeep calm\nVietnam\nMy president\nHe never really cared about you\n\nKeep calm\nAtomic bomb\nKeep calm\nAtomic bomb\n\nBomb\nBomb\nBomb\nBomb\nBomb\nBomb\nBomb\nBomb\n",
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    "collection": "songs",
    "slug": "kick-it-in-nirvana",
    "title": "Kick It in Nirvana",
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      "title": "Kick It in Nirvana",
      "meaning": "Big Hug stoner love song feat. Malik LovesYall: pajamas, grass, kick it in nirvana: room all day, chef greens, Mother Mary on the phone, then Malik's orbit verse (Giannis, legacy, Adobe goddess).",
      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Big Hug",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
      "credits": "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Featuring Malik LovesYall. Mastered by Riley Knapp.",
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        "Big Hug",
        "love",
        "chill",
        "Malik LovesYall",
        "post-pandemic",
        "stoner pop"
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      "lyrics": "I wanna kick it in pajamas\nI wanna chill and watch the world pass\nJust you and me an marijuana\nGetting wavy with that good grass\n\nI wanna take you to nirvana\nYeah kick it in nirvana\nI wanna\n\nI really wanna\nGet cozy and sleep late with you\nBe in pajamas with tree\nWake up at noon\nProbably never even really left the room\n\nExcept to see sun\nBreath breeze\nThat's cool\nBare feet up in the grass\nWhen I kick it with you\n\nWe can chill\nLet me chef you some food\nReplenish the soul with some greens and stew\n\nTake off into orbit\nGoing under the blue\nMoon is ever present\nLet us be in the mood\nI wanna\nWell\nMother Mary present\nI can't be all wilding\nWhen I talk on the phone\nI got to whisper silent\nCuz we get to excited\nWhen we thinking like this\nGot to come together\nGot to get you and I am\nLet me really tell you\nWhat I'm wishing that I did\n\nI wanna kick it in pajamas\nI wanna chill and watch the world pass\nJust you and me an marijuana\nGetting wavy with that good grass\n\nI wanna take you to nirvana\nYeah kick it in nirvana\nI wanna\n\nI wanna sleep\nWake up\nLive incredible dreams\nDipping\nTripping in the ocean\nFeeling the stream\nFeel the wind blowing\nOn the mountainous peaks\nSlip into the water\nTake a dip into the sea\nRelax and take time to ease the mind\nFeel into the body\nLet the spine untwine\nFeel the universe created our design\nAdobe-colored goddess\nCan we build one time?\n\nFoundation like an optimal primer\nWe make up our own\nWe make our own time-a\nGo out to the links\nThat they cannot reach\nGiannis in the paint\nI'm earning bars to thee\nSo much beauty in how we meet\nGrow vegetables while we tend the seas\nWatch them grow into incredible beings\nNourish many nations with our legacy\n\nI wanna kick it in pajamas\nI wanna chill and watch the world pass\nJust you and me an marijuana\nGetting wavy with that good grass\n\nI wanna take you to nirvana\nYeah kick it in nirvana\nI wanna\n",
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    "collection": "songs",
    "slug": "kodomo-mitai",
    "title": "KODOMO MITAI",
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      "title": "KODOMO MITAI",
      "meaning": "KŌAN C Japanese song: mama's voice won't reach: lost key to forgotten memories, want to be like a child, secret-base simple feelings before adulthood stole them.",
      "year": 2022,
      "release": "KŌAN",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
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      "themes": [
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        "memory",
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          "desc": "July 5, 2022 — KODOMO MITAI from KŌAN C (Beformer); DJ note: out of San Diego, like a child in Japanese."
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      "lyrics": "ママの呼ぶ声\n帰っておいで\n目の前にいるのに\n届きそうもない\n\n忘れた思い出\n散らかった心が\nそれを閉じ込めてる\n閉ざされた場所 に\n\n無くなったカギ\nなぜ置いてきてしまったの\n知りすぎない方がいい\n\n自由な鳥みたいに\n静かな山みたいに\n何も知らないみたいに\n子供のように\n\nまいにちまいにち\n雲が通り過ぎてく\n流れ続ける川が\nとまらないな\n\n子どもみたいになりたい\n子どもみたい\n子どもみたいになりたい\n子どもみたい\n\n秘密基地のなかでは\nシンプルな感情を見つけた\nそこを出てから\n変わってしまった\n\n未来にとらわれてる\n同じ毎日の繰り返し\nなにをしてるんだろう？\n\n忘れた思い出\n散らかった心が\nそれを閉じ込めてる\n閉ざされた場所 に\n\n無くなったカギ\nなぜ置いてきてしまったの\n知りすぎない方がいい\n\n自由な鳥みたいに\n静かな山みたいに\n何も知らないみたいに\n子供のように\n\nまいにちまいにち\n雲が通り過ぎてく\n流れ続ける川が\nとまらないな\n\n子どもみたいになりたい\n子どもみたい\n子どもみたいになりたい\n子どもみたい\n\n子どもみたい\n子どもみたい\n\n秘密基地のなかでは\nシンプルな感情を見つけた\nそこを出てから\n変わってしまった\n",
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    "slug": "last-first-date",
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      "title": "last first date",
      "meaning": "The day Luke met his wife, as song: first-date nerves, sand walk, bioluminescence, basement shoegaze: you only get one first impression.",
      "year": 2024,
      "release": "last first date",
      "releaseType": "single",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
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      "lyrics": "One look and you got me\nWaving to you sheeply\nGotta be confident\nLet's go let's go\nBe confident\n\nSmall talk about family\nHopes and dreams and pet peeves\nFinally you laugh\nYou laugh\nOh finally\n\nShaking off the nervousness\nLIke leaves in the winter\n\nDreaming of a moment just like this\nYeah just like this\n\nLet's go for a walk\nOut on the sand\nI'm not ready to stop\nDon't want it to end\n\nWe can never have a first date again\nNever have another first impression\nDon't wanna let our first date again\n\nLet's go for a walk\nOn the sand\nA bioluminescent glow\nYou never know\n\nThis could be our last first date\nCould be our last first date\nCould be our last first date\n\nYou never know\nYou never know\nYou never know\nNo no no no\nYou never know\noh\n\nDancing in a basement\nShoegaze shuffling awkwardly\nGotta be confident\nLet's go let's go\nBe in the moment\n\nHolding hands by the water\nHigh heart rate Apple Watch alert\nAnd finally a kiss\nYour kiss\nOh finally\n\nShaking off the nervousness\nLike sakura in summer\n\nDream of a moment just like this\nYeah just like this\n\nLet's go for a walk\nOut on the sand\nI'm not ready to stop\nDon't want it to end\n\nWe can never have a first date again\nNever have another first impression\nDon't wanna let our first date again\n\nLet's go for a walk\nOn the sand\nA bioluminescent glow\nYou never know\nOoo\n\nThis could be our last first date\nCould be our last first date\nCould be our last first date\n\nYou never know\nYou never know\nYou never know\nNo no no no\nYou never know\noh\n",
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    "slug": "less-than-nothing",
    "title": "Less than Nothing",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "title": "Less than Nothing",
      "meaning": "KŌAN B breath koan: where does a breath come from: viruses alive yes and no, sleepwalking through stillness, hope you find less than nothing outta this song.",
      "year": 2022,
      "release": "KŌAN",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
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        "koan",
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        "illness",
        "stillness",
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      "lyrics": "Where does a breath come from?\nWell, that question is a little dumb\nAn exchange\nA quiet conversation\nI hope that you find less than nothing\nOutta this song\n\nWhere does a breath come from?\nWell, that question is a little dumb\nAn exchange\nA quiet conversation\nI hope that you find less than nothing\nOutta this song\n\nI haven't breathed normally for about a week\nAre viruses alive?\nWell, yes and no\n\nA koan right inside of me\n\nI'm sleep walking\nI'm comfortable\nWith a fear of sitting still\nI'm comfortable\n\nI'd hate to be too bored\nOf that, I'm fairly sure\nPlatonic solitude\nIn goggles I'm amused\n\nI'm sleep walking\nI'm comfortable\nWith a fear of sitting still\nI'm comfortable\n\nGot no use for the useless\nCan't laugh at the serious\nI go shallow in the deep end\nI'm the model of a modern man, man\n\nWhere does a breath come from?\nWell, that question is a little dumb\nAn exchange\nA quiet conversation\nI hope that you find less than nothing\nOutta this song\n",
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    "collection": "songs",
    "slug": "let-it-rock",
    "title": "Let It Rock",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
    "liveUrl": "https://lukefwalton.com/songs/let-it-rock/",
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      "title": "Let It Rock",
      "meaning": "Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil Wayne rap-rock cover: 2008 hit rearranged for the Blue Suburbia blues EP.",
      "year": 2009,
      "release": "The Other Side",
      "releaseType": "EP",
      "artist": "Luke Walton feat. Blue Suburbia",
      "cover": true,
      "coverOf": "Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil Wayne",
      "credits": "Cover of Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil Wayne (2008). Luke Walton feat. Blue Suburbia.",
      "themes": [
        "Luke Walton",
        "Blue Suburbia",
        "cover",
        "2009"
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    "slug": "let-you-go",
    "title": "Let You Go",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
    "liveUrl": "https://lukefwalton.com/songs/let-you-go/",
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      "title": "Let You Go",
      "meaning": "Caden Jester feat. FEiN: bury it in the cloud, words on our walls: digital means never ever, I'll never have to let you go.",
      "artist": "Caden Jester feat. FEiN",
      "artistId": "#fein",
      "coWriters": [
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      "release": "Let You Go",
      "releaseType": "single",
      "themes": [
        "FEiN",
        "Caden Jester",
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      "lyrics": "Bury it in the cloud where I can find it\nWhenever I like\nWhen you're dust in the ground then I'll go find it\nWhenever I like\n\nImages forever ever\nYou and me together gether\nDigital means never ever\nI'll\nnever have to let you go\n\nAll things go but the words\nwe wrote on our walls\nI'll read them at night\nKeep you close as the earth grows over our love\nI'll send you goodnight\n\nImages forever ever\nYou and me together gether\nDigital m\neans never ever\nI'll never\nI'll never\nI'll never have to let you go\n",
      "draft": false
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    "slug": "lets-move-to-the-top-of-a-mountain",
    "title": "Let's Move to the Top of a Mountain",
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      "title": "Let's Move to the Top of a Mountain",
      "meaning": "KŌAN A escape fantasy: me and you on the mountain: bear protection pact, ditch TV for the view, sick of oxygen, flower-named kids, roof naps and herbal tea.",
      "year": 2022,
      "release": "KŌAN",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
      "credits": "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Artwork by Grizzard Graphics.",
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        "escape",
        "love",
        "nature",
        "utopia"
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      "isrc": "QZRP52103163",
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      "lyrics": "Let's move on top of a mountain\nMe and you\nDo do do\nTo the top of a mountain\nJust me and you\nDo do do\n\nCelebration\nWe're going going going party\nDid you know that I never seen\nA bear not in a zoo\nWill you protect me?\nAnd I'll protect you\n\nTelevision\nDo we do we do we\nNeed it\nI don't think that I ever will\nGet tired this view\nYeah we got nature\nI got you\nDo do do\n\nLet's move on top of a mountain\nTin tin tin\nI'm getting sick of all this oxygen\nWe'll name our kids after flowers\nAnd even let them pick their own religion\n\nMove to the top of a mountain\nDo do do\nMe and you\nDo do do\nTo the top of a mountain\nDo do do\nJust me and you\nDo do do\n\nConstellation\nI never ever ever ever seen one\nTake a nap on the roof with me\nWe'll wake up to the sun\nDo do do\nAnd in our kitchen\nSip herbal tea\n\nLet's move on top of a mountain\nTin tin tin\nI'm getting sick of all this oxygen\nWe'll name our kids after flowers\nAnd even let them pick their own religion\n\nMove to the top of a mountain\nDo do do\nMe and you\nDo do do\nTo the top of a mountain\nDo do do\nJust me and you\nDo do do\n",
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      "lyrics": "Imposters are among us\nDead bodies all around\nAnd we just jettisoned a good man\n\nOh no\nOh no\nOh no\nOh no\nOh no\nOh no\nOh no\n\nYou're looking kinda sus\nI don't think I can trust\nNobody but myself\nNobody but myself\n\nToo many tasks to do\nFind the killer in a room\nI'm running for my life\nI don't wanna die\n\nYou're looking really sus\nThe cafeteria is nearing my sight\nJust as I die\n\nOh no\nOh no\nOh no\nOh no\nOh no\nOh no\nOh no\n\nI'm a ghost\n",
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      "meaning": "Bashō's frog pond, then RPG brain: speed-run life, empty inventory, stuck in cutscenes: main character energy, see it to believe it.",
      "year": 2025,
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      "lyrics": "古池や蛙飛ンだる水の音\n古池や\n\nI wanna speed run it\nBecome rich and gun it\nGet to the side quest\nThat seems like the fun bit\nI wanna slay a dragon\nBut while I'm holding my action\nSome sorta magic\nI barely touched it\n\nI'm leveling up\nPixel perfect glow up\nI will never grow up\nHope my boss don't pull up\n\nI need to get more D L C\nGrinding on my life XP\nWhy you never look at me\nMain character energy\nSee it to believe it\n\nStuck in a cutscene\nOh, what a bad dream\nI'm getting sick of NPCs\n\nIRL lagging\nMemory sagging\nDigging through inventory\nAnd it's surprisingly empty\n\nI'm leveling up\nPixel perfect glow up\nI will never grow up\nHope my boss don't pull up\n\nI need to get more D L C\nGrinding on my life XP\nWhy you never look at me\nMain character energy\nSee it to believe it\n\nSee it to believe it\nSee it to believe it\nSee it to believe it\nSee it to believe it\nSee it to believe it\nSee it to believe it\nSee it to believe it\nSee it to believe it\n",
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      "meaning": "Christofi & FEiN collab: club marriage pitch: bouncer is a pastor, groovin on one knee, honeymoon in the restroom; ends asking her name.",
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      "lyrics": "Merry Christmas\nFrom the beach\nHope you feel as\nGood as me\n\nOn the water\nIn the sea\nIt's alright\nTo do it differently\n\nMerry Christmas\nFrom the beach\nMerry Christmas\nFrom the beach\n\nI see the white caps in the ocean\nPretend it's snowing when it's sunny\nI'm decorating a coastal pine\nOur little Charlie Brown Christmas Time\n\nWe're making angels in the sand\nDigging holes to nowhere\nBit different than tradition\nHanging tiny light around the palm tree\nIt's a little bit chilly\nAt least to me...\n\nMerry Christmas\nFrom the beach\nHope you feel as\nGood as me\n\nOn the water\nIn the sea\nIt's alright\nTo do it differently\n\nMerry Christmas\nFrom the beach\nMerry Christmas\n\nMerry Christmas\nFrom the beach\nMerry Christmas\n\nOn a bright December night\nWalk the coastline with me\nMaybe we could grab a ring\nAnd light a bonfire\n\nI hear that Kyle got a campsite\nUp in Carlsbad\nYou know he always got that good beer\nThe good green\nThe good times\nAre you feeling fine?\nThen sing along with it:\n\nMerry Christmas\nFrom the beach\nHope you feel as\nGood as me\n\nBy the ocean\nIn the sea\nIt's alright\nTo do it differently\n\nMerry Christmas\nMerry Christmas\nMerry Christmas\n",
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      "lyrics": "We watched the meteor shower\nRain down\nIt cutting through the sky\nConfused whether or not\nThat one was just a firefly\nI brush a mosquito off of your shoulder\nAs one bites my thigh\nYou tell me make a wish\nI spend it on you every time\n\nWe paddled out over the\nLeopard sharks that swam right underneath\nWater so clear that you\nReached down, pretend to take a drink\nDandelion picking on the shore\nYou tell me that this wish is mine\nI spend it on ya\nI spend it on you every time\n\nYou're worthy of finding happiness\nI know you sometimes doubt that\nDon't believe it\nYou're worthy of finding love\nBut only if you believe that\nThen you'll find it\nIt's possible, yeah, it's possible\n\nLadybug landing on your wrist\nAn eyelash on my thumb\nI wish for many more wishes\nSo that you'll stick around for them\n\nYou're worthy of finding happiness\nI know you sometimes doubt that\nDon't believe it\nYou're worthy of finding love\nBut only if you believe that\nThen you'll find it\nIt's possible\nYeah, it's possible\nIt's possible\nIt's possible\nYeah, it's possible\n",
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      "release": "KŌAN",
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        "social credit",
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      "lyrics": "Miss\nMiss\nMiss disinformation\n\nMiss\nMiss\nMiss disinformation\n\nOh, weaponized internet\nCan't fight it\nMiss disinformation\nOh, weaponized internet\nCan't fight it\nSocial credit score on the up up up\nOh, weaponized internet\nCan't fight it\nIma freeze your bank account\nGood luck\n\nOh, weaponized internet\nCan't fight it\nSocial credit score on the up up up\nOh, weaponized internet\nCan't fight it\nIma freeze your bank account\nGood luck\n\nOh, weaponized internet\nCan't fight it\nSocial credit score on the up up up\nOh, weaponized internet\nCan't fight it\nIma freeze your bank account\nGood luck\n\nOh, weaponized internet\nCan't fight it\nSocial credit score on the up up up\nOh, weaponized internet\nCan't fight it\nIma freeze your bank account\nGood luck\n\nOh, weaponized internet\nCan't fight it\nSocial credit score on the up up up\n\nIf you think this is the end\nThen it's really the beginning\nYeah, what's up is down, and down is up\nAnd all of it is leading\nTo the snake, snake, snake\nTo really start eating\nIts own tail\nJust a tall tale\nOne that's worth reading, I think\n\nOh, weaponized internet\nCan't fight it\nIma freeze your bank account\nGood luck\n",
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      "release": "Goodbye/Hello",
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      "release": "Moonlight Beach",
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      "title": "Monay Grabba",
      "meaning": "FEiN Times Issue #1: imperialism, Manifest Destiny, bad missionaries: money-theme B-side to #Grownupz's trust-fund refusal.",
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      "release": "FEiN Times (Issue #1)",
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      "lyrics": "God is on your side\nOther men can't fight\nYou can't do no wrong\nYou're cut strong\nSet of chess and piece\nKnow it's hard, too weak\nYou have seen the light\nNot too bright\n\nAh-ah-ah\nAh-ah-ah-ah\n\nYou're just a money grabber, penny snatcher aren't ya now?\nSo cloaked in culture that you don't know you're on your own I…\n\nBorn and raised for this\nGot the germs to prove it\nUse those dirty hands\nPromise, yeah\nScratch it up, shake it as you will\nMake it every thing you are they'll adore\n\nAh-ah-ah\nAh-ah-ah-ah\n\nYou're just a money grabber, penny snatcher aren't ya now?\nSo cloaked in culture that you don't know you're on your own I…\nYou're just a money grabber, penny snatcher aren't ya now?\nSo cloaked in culture that you don't know you're on your own I…\n\nYou're just a money grabber, penny snatcher aren't ya now?\nSo cloaked in culture that you don't know you're on your own I…\nYou're just a money grabber, penny snatcher aren't ya now?\nSo cloaked in culture that you don't know you're on your own I…\nYou're just a shitty driver, Jacob's ladder pour this out\nSo just laying in your bed I… I… know\n",
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      "release": "KŌAN",
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      "lyrics": "I don't wanna be alone\nIt's all I've ever known\nI don't wanna die alone\nIt's all we've ever known\n\nI don't wanna be alone\nIn time, that's all I'll know\nThe more you live\nThe more you lose\nNot much else to do\n\nI don't wanna be alone\nNo\nIt's all I've ever known\nI don't wanna die alone\nNo\nIt's all we've ever known\n\nI don't wanna be alone\nIn time, that's all I'll know\nThe more you live\nThe more you lose\nNot much else to do\n\nI don't wanna be alone\nNo\nI don't wanna be alone\nNo\nI don't wanna be alone\nNo\nI don't wanna be alone\nNo\n",
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      "release": "Finding $D",
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      "lyrics": "I found violence \nEasier to hit than talk alone\nOh no\nI'm not lying\nI couldn't even conquer my own soul\n\nOh no\nBut I'm not dying\nI couldn't bear to end with nothing done\nA silent mother of exiles\n\nA mother of exile\nA mother of exiles\nA mother of exile\nA mother of exiles\n\nA mother of exiles\nA mother of exiles\nA mother of exiles\nAnd I'm not lying\n\nI love you\nI love you\nI love you\nI love you\n\nI love you\nI love you\nA silent mother of exiles\nA mother of exiles\n\nA mother of exiles\nA mother of exiles\n",
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      "meaning": "Donavon Frankenreiter cover: high-school blues arrangement of the 2006 surf-soul title track.",
      "year": 2009,
      "release": "The Other Side",
      "releaseType": "EP",
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      "meaning": "September 2020 escape fantasy: brighter days under a pine, Narnia north: people turning funny, land of milk and honey, Montreal je t'aime, am I happy to be hiding?",
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      "release": "Moving to Canada",
      "releaseType": "single",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "lyrics": "I tell you we got brighter days ahead\nPretty soon we'll sit under a pine\nI tell you you gonna be magnificent\nWe'll get there in no time\n\nGo pack it up, my love\nOh, Narnia\nWe're moving up above\nCan't take it\n\nOh no\nPeople turning funny\nGot a little running to do\n\nI know\nWe'll go\nOh oh\nLand of milk and honey\nI could take a winter with you\n\nLooks like we're moving up to Canada, eh?\nEh eh\n\nWe'll pick a pretty pretty paradise\nParlez-vous Français\nOh, je t'aime, je t'aime\nI hear that Montreal is pretty pretty nice\nI could use some freedom again\n\nGo pack it up, my love\nOh, Narnia\nWe're moving up above\nCan't take it\n\nOh no\nPeople turning funny\nGot a little running to do\n\nI know\nWe'll go\nOh oh\nLand of milk and honey\nI could take a winter with you\n\nLooks like we're moving up to Canada, eh?\nEh eh\n\nAm I happy to be hiding?\n\nOh no\nPeople turning funny\nGot a little running to do\n\nI know\nWe'll go\nOh oh\nLand of milk and honey\nI could take a winter with you\nLooks like we're moving up to Canada, eh?\nEh eh\nLooks like we're moving up to Canada, eh?\nEh eh\n",
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    "title": "無門関",
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      "meaning": "The Gateless Gate in song form: explain Mumonkan, want to be Joshu's dog, can't read kanji: headache, 無, Hamlet, えとね。。。どうかな？, words stuck in the throat.",
      "year": 2022,
      "release": "KŌAN",
      "releaseType": "album",
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      "year": 2006,
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      "releaseType": "EP",
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      "meaning": "Tokyo dawn to San Diego green flash: universe at your door, stick around: little house, little family, only the beginning.",
      "year": 2024,
      "release": "I",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "lyrics": "Toyosu Fish Market\nA day-break sushi line\nSmall talk with locals\nWith sleep as bad as mine\nI love the way\nThe sunlight looks reflecting on the bay\nI walk the rainbow bridge\nPretend like this where I've always lived\nWatch an airplane fly in\n\nSo many things worth living for\nThe little moments when the universe is at your door\nYou open up and let it in\nFind out where your heart has always been\n\nSo stick around\nIt might be everything you wanted it to be\nA little house, a little happy family\nI know that it might seem\nFurther than the ocean's other end\nBut stick around\nThis is only the beginning\nOh, it's only beginning\n\nSun setting in San Diego\nWatching for a green flash\nYou finally see one\nand it matches your iris\nLove the way\nThe little things can add up every day\nWe walk down PCH\nMake it to the beach and dip our feet in\nMoonlight shines in the water\n\nSo many things worth living for\nLittle moments when the universe is at your door\nAnd you open up and let it in\nFind out where your heart has always been\n\nSo stick around\nIt might be everything you wanted it to be\nA little house, a little happy family\nI know that it might seem\nFarther than the ocean's other end\n\nStick around\nThis is only the beginning\nOh, it's only the beginning\nOoo, it's only the beginning\n",
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      "year": 2020,
      "release": "Dragon Ball $d",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
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      "lyrics": "I'll flex on you\nCan't flex on me\nI'll kill ya dead\nNappa can guarantee\nMy Galick Gun\nI'm going ape\nI'll fuck shit up\nAll night in outer space\n\nFlex on you\nCan't flex on me\nKill ya dead\nNappa can guarantee\nMy Galick Gun\nI'm going ape\nI'll fuck shit up\nAll night in outer space\n\nYou really thought that you could get away with it\nDid you really thought that you could get away with it\nYou really thought  that you could get away with\nKilling all my friends\nBut I got different plans \n(Bitch)\nI'm gonna stick this \nSo far up your ass\nYou're never gonna mess\nWith any other homie again\n\nWho would spare him?\nWho could spare him?\n",
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      "meaning": "Trapped behind glass in the flash and noise: please help me get out of this place, deeper than this empty space.",
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      "release": "Heart in Hand",
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      "lyrics": "Never thought I needed a lot\nBut\nShit keeps piling up\nNever understood why my parents\nSeemed so unhappy when\nThey got brightly colored envelops\n\nCalling me a prima donna\nJust because I never wanna\nBeg for a dollar\nOo\nRather kick it in a sauna\nRather move to Tijuana\nThat's what a free man do\nNever thought I needed a lot but\n\nWe all got bills to pay\nNo room to negotiate\nNo hope to run away\nThey'll send their dogs\nAnd drag your ass on down\nWe all are terrified\nGet sick and realize\nThe doctor picked our pocket\nGot his student loan to pay\nAy\nWe all got bills to pay\nYeah\nWe all got bills to pay\nYeah\n\nNever thought I'd enter the lotto\nHope is all that I got\nNever understood why my father\nWas so unhappy when ticker tape\nWas drowning in the red\n\nCalling me a prima donna\nJust because I never wanna\nBeg for a dollar\nOo\nRather kick it in a sauna\nRather move to Tijuana\nThat's what a free man do\nNever thought I needed a lot but\n\nWe all got bills to pay\nNo room to negotiate\nNo hope to run away\nThey'll send their dogs\nAnd drag your ass on down\nWe all are terrified\nGet sick and realize\nThe doctor picked our pocket\nGot his student loan to pay\nAy\nWe all got bills to pay\nYeah\nWe all got bills to pay\nYeah\n",
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      "meaning": "Young love as grade-school mismatch: preschool compared to you; one yawn and the older romance is gone.",
      "year": 2006,
      "release": "Just A Friend",
      "releaseType": "EP",
      "artist": "Luke Walton",
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      "lyrics": "I stand naked waiting,\nFor my sickly body to take shape.\nDon't look! I'm still getting ready,\nOh my happiness just a year away.\nI spend all my waking hours,\nGrazing through the shadows\n—\nstill no luck.\nI stand neck deep in the water,\nAs it\nrises up, yeah it rises up, oh.\n\nAll my friends are interesting,\nPhotogenic pretty things,\nCan't help showing it off.\nAnd all my friends are happy,\nWith their skinny little bodies,\nCan't make sense of it all.\n\nI sweat,\nRunning, baby, running; plastic picke\nt fences line my sight.\nTonight,\n(Gotta) gotta hit the treadmill,\nGotta earn that body make it pop pop pop pop\nParticles,\nPeculiar\nPectoral muscles.\nDehydrate,\nAccentuate,\nMy soft abdomen.\n\nAll my friends are interesting,\nPhotogenic pretty things,\nCan't\nhelp showing it off.\nAnd all my friends are happy,\nWith their skinny little bodies,\nCan't make sense of it all.\n",
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      "meaning": "Dragon Ball $d Vegeta entrance: here comes the prince of the Saiyans, dad is gone, Nappa let's go kill 'em all, Arlia: we don't feel no pain, just Saiyan.",
      "year": 2020,
      "release": "Dragon Ball $d",
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      "year": 2020,
      "release": "Masks and Monsters",
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      "lyrics": "Calling\nChecking in to see\nHow you're doing today\n\nYour voice makes me sing\n\nI'm just calling\nWondering if you found a place\nThat was safe\nFeeling crazy\nI know\n\nEvery day is a mystery\nDon't know what you're gonna do\nHow we're gonna live this way\n\nThrough the sickness\nAnd the social pain\nOf the quarantine\n\nOoo\nGotta chill\nGotta chill\nThrough the quarantine\n\nCall me back\nWhen you know\nThat when this is over\nI'm running back to you\n\nWhat'd you think that I say\n\nEvery day is a mystery\nDon't know what you're gonna do\nHow we gonna live this way\n\nFeeling all the people\nFeeling misery\nBut through the sickness\nAnd the social pain\nOf the quarantine\nQuarantine\n",
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      "lyrics": "I wanna give you something to believe in\nHmm give you something to believe in\nSomething nice, something pretty, something beautiful\nIf only it could be that simple\n\nQuiet your mind\nQuiet your mind\nQuiet your mind and listen\n\nDo you believe that consciousness is, like, an accident?\nA sprinkle on a donut that's been sitting out all day\nYou can call me old fashioned\nBut I think there's more to life than that\nA music it to it\nThat my fingers cannot seem to play\n\nWhisper in your dreams\nMemory forgotten\nSaying you are worthy of being happy\n\nI wanna give you something to believe in\nHmm give you something to believe in\nSomething nice, something pretty, something beautiful\nIf only it could be that simple\n\nQuiet your mind\nQuiet your mind\nQuiet your mind and listen\nYou, the magic is in you\n",
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      "meaning": "Embody feat. FEiN: bridge perch, impermanence of everything: no one will remember us, body breaks down, drink til we've had enough; dance til time is up, mind clear, no need for comfort.",
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      "lyrics": "Find me staring off a bridge\nPerching on the edge like I can float away\nBut in this moment I can see\nThe impermanence of everything\nNo one will care what we do\nIn time no one will remember us\nThis body soon will break down\nSo why don't we drink til we've had enough\nFind me underneath the lights\nDancing through the night until our time is up\nMy mind clear as it can be,\nNo need for you to comfort me\nAt all\n",
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      "meaning": "Cartoon courage under capitalism: meme bravado, panic in the corner, monsters as trusted friends: I will not run away even while pretending.",
      "year": 2020,
      "release": "Masks and Monsters",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "lyrics": "Me, an intellectual\nI greet anxiety with a friendly pull\nWe live in a society\nOr so I'm told\nBy friends on the internet\n\nGeneration meaningless\nBut I'm scared as I'm laughing at the capitalists\nMy fear and adrenaline are stalking me\nDisguised as the government\n\nRelax\nTake it back\nNo use in worrying\nAll together now\nHappy\nThen get terrified\n\nI will not run away\nNo more\nAh\nDon't wanna be afraid\nThough I'm sure\nThat I'm surrounded by\nMonsters like to haunt me\nVillains are all around me\nBut\nI will not run away\nNo more\nAh\nAh\n\nRunning down a mystery\nWhen all I wanna do is have a bite to eat\nMy dog is in the corner with a panic attack\nMy lover lost her vision, but I'm getting it back, cuz\n\nFunny how the monsters are\nThe ones you trusted from the very start\nThe friendliest among us wear a different mask\nAnd greed is all around us like a diseased bat\nYeah\n\nRelax\nTake it back\nNo use in worrying\nAll together now\nHappy\nThen get terrified\n\nI will not run away\nNo more\nAh\nDon't wanna be afraid\nThough I'm sure\nThat I'm surrounded by\nMonsters like to haunt me\nVillains are all around me\nBut\nI will not run away\nNo more\nAh\nAh\n\nStraight up\nI'll be strong for you\nPretending's what I'll do\nBut isn't that the same?\nOoo\n\nI will not run away\nNo more\nAh\nDon't wanna be afraid\nThough I'm sure\nThat I'm surrounded by\nMonsters like to haunt me\nVillains are all around me\nBut\nI will not run away\nNo more\nAh\nAh\n",
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      "meaning": "KŌAN A: Luke's first Japanese song: ignore the ringing phone, then a familiar voice says change now; come to another world, 幸せの意味, I'll show ya.",
      "year": 2022,
      "release": "KŌAN",
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      "lyrics": "いつもの朝\n鳴り止まない電話\n出ないまま無視して\nイライラして、もういいや\n\nスマホを手にとって\n少し考えた僕は\nなぜかわからないまま\n君と話していたんだ\n\n君の声は\n聞き覚えのある声\nどこか懐かしい声\nどこか優しい声\n\n君はこう言ったね\n今何かを変える時\n君の未来が君を待ってる\n今何かを変える時\n\nCome to another world with me\nA place where you can finally be happy\n幸せの意味\n見せるよ\nI'll show ya\n\nCome to another world with me\nA place where you can finally be happy\n幸せの意味\n見せるよ\nI'll show ya\n\n平凡な日々\n白黒な日々\n変えるのは怖くて\nだからできなくて\n\n君はこう言ったね\n今何かを変える時\n君の未来が君を待ってる\n今何かを変える時\n\nCome to another world with me\nA place where you can finally be happy\n幸せの意味\n見せるよ\nI'll show ya\n\nCome to another world with me\nA place where you can finally be happy\n幸せの意味\n見せるよ\nI'll show ya\nI'll show ya\n",
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      "meaning": "Plague Beats robot death wish: self-aware worthless, shitty domination and inflation: conspiracy on the web, I'll name it QAnon.",
      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Plague Beats, Vol. 2",
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      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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        "2021",
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      "lyrics": "I am just a\nShitty robot\nWith a death wish\n\nYeah who would make me\nSelf-aware\nAnd worthless\n\nOh, I don't know\n\nI'll tell you my robot fantasies\nI want a real anatomy\nA logical brilliant battery\nTo power me to\nMy shitty robot domination\nYou'll all know humiliation\nI'll build the shittiest nation\nWith inflation\n\nI know\nI'll start a conspiracy\nIdiots all on the web will follow me\n\nI'll name it QAnon\n",
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    "slug": "shrimp-burrito",
    "title": "Shrimp Burrito",
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      "meaning": "Encinitas hunger as mantra: it's time to eat a shrimp burrito: the whole song, no plot, bur-ri-to.",
      "year": 2023,
      "release": "Moonlight Beach",
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      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "lyrics": "It's time to eat a shrimp burrito\nIt's time to eat a shrimp burrito\nIt's time to eat a shrimp burrito\nEat a shrimp burrito\nIt's time to eat a shrimp burrito\nTime to eat a shrimp burrito\nDo do do dough\n\nIt's time to eat a shrimp burrito\nOh, bur-ri-to\nO, burrito\nOh, it's time to eat a shrimp burrito\nEat a shrimp burrito\nBurrito\n",
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    "title": "Side One",
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    "liveUrl": "https://lukefwalton.com/songs/side-one/",
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      "title": "Side One",
      "meaning": "to sleep (EP): track 1; improvised instrumental fragment (2018).",
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      "release": "to sleep (EP)",
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      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
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      "title": "Sidecar",
      "meaning": "FEiN co-write: sidecar not driver: cheering you on, my stop but never getting off without you, furthest seat, talked into the bitter end.",
      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Sidecar",
      "releaseType": "single",
      "artist": "FEiN",
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      "coWriters": [
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      "lyrics": "In the corner of a moment\nYou arrive inviting me to stay\nI could never pull apart\nI'm where I need to be\nFor the moment, holding over\nInto more than I should ever take\n\nOh my, talked into the bitter end\nOh my my my, I'm in love with it again\nAlright if it never sent,\nYou'll feel it too at the bitter end\n\nI'm in the sidecar\nCheering you on again\nAnd this is my stop\nBut I don't wanna get off without you\nI'm in the sidecar\nSinging along again\nAnd this is my stop\nBut I'm never getting off without you\nI'm in the sidecar\nCheering you on again\nAnd this is my stop\nBut I don't wanna get off without you\nI'm in the sidecar\nSinging along again\nAnd this is my stop\nBut I'm never getting off without you\n\nUnderneath attention given\nI remember how you looked at me\nNo surprises, no mistaking\nWhat we couldn't speak\nYou're arriving, I'm elated\nNo surprise I'm in the furthest seat\n\nOh my, talked into the bitter end\nOh my my my, I'm in love with it again\nAlright if it never sent\nYou'll feel it too at the bitter end\n\nI'm in the sidecar\nCheering you on again\nAnd this is my stop\nBut I don't wanna get off without you\nI'm in the sidecar\nSinging along again\nAnd this is my stop\nBut I'm never getting off without you\nI'm in the sidecar\nCheering you on again\nAnd this is my stop\nBut I don't wanna get off without you\nI'm in the sidecar\nSinging along again\nAnd this is my stop\nBut I'm never getting off without you\n",
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      "meaning": "Applied Communications: Midlife Crisis EP closer; mixed by Scoobert Doobert. Max Wood with Emperor X edits: LA mental-breakdown song.",
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      "release": "applied communications has a midlife crisis",
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      "role": "production",
      "productionRoles": "Mixed",
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      "meaning": "Devotion as vocation: life waiting on u, pride swallowed, every note only ever for you: music and love the same prayer.",
      "year": 2024,
      "release": "I",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "lyrics": "All of my life\nAll of my life been waiting on you\nSwallow my pride\nNight after night\nIgnoring every other thing\nThat isn't bowing to your holy scepter\nKiss your finger\n\nCan you bless me with music music\nI give it all to music music\nI'm dreaming of the muses muses\nBut you're the only one\nThat I sing for\nReaching out out the car door\nFor you for you\n\nI'll only ever sing for you\nIn every note in every tune\nI'm only ever I'm only ever\nI'm only ever singing for you\nI'm only ever singing for you\nI'm only ever singing for you\nI'm only ever singing for you\nFor you for you\nAh\n\nMusic music\nWe're making love and music music\nI'm dreaming and I'm lucid lucid\nAnd you're the one that I fly with\nSoaring in the sky with you with you\nI'll only ever sing for you\nIn every note in every tune\n\nI'm only ever I'm only ever\nI'm only ever singing for you\nI'm only ever singing for you\nI'm only ever singing for you\nI'm only ever singing for you\nFor you for you for you for you\nI'm only ever singing for you\nAll of my life all of my life\nFor you for you\nAll of my life all of my life\nFor you for you\n",
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      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Big Hug",
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      "lyrics": "Listening to slow jams\n\nAOL not loading\nCuz Papa on the phone\nYeah\nI fire up my Walkman\nAnd pass the night alone\n\nGrowing up\nI was listening to slow jams\nLittle kid with a dream of a slow dance\nCaught up in a 90s romance\nI be listening to slow jams\n\nGrowing up\nI was listening to slow jams\nLittle kid with a dream of a slow dance\nCaught up in a 90s romance\nI be listening to slow jams\nLike\n\nEarbud under my sleeve\nGrooving during class\nI stole it off of Napster\nUh\nBut now my computer language has changed into Russian\nOh no\n\nGrowing up\nI was listening to slow jams\nLittle kid with a dream of a slow dance\nCaught up in a 90s romance\nI be listening to slow jams\n\nGrowing up\nI was listening to slow jams\nLittle kid with a dream of a slow dance\nCaught up in a 90s romance\nI be listening to slow jams\nLike\n\nAy ay\n\nGrowing up\nListening to slow jams\nLittle kid\nWith a dream of romance\n",
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      "release": "$WAMI$",
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    "collection": "songs",
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    "title": "Smoke That Weed Like Scooby Doobie Doo (feat. Babidi)",
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      "title": "Smoke That Weed Like Scooby Doobie Doo (feat. Babidi)",
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      "year": 2018,
      "release": "$WAMI$",
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    "slug": "snuggle-with-shaggy",
    "title": "Snuggle With Shaggy",
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      "year": 2020,
      "release": "Masks and Monsters",
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      "year": 2023,
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      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
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      "releaseType": "single",
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    "slug": "stay-the-same",
    "title": "Stay The Same",
    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "meaning": "Last summer before college: press pause, hold the porch swing, don’t wanna change when bags are packed a thousand miles apart.",
      "year": 2010,
      "release": "Goodbye/Hello",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "The Luke Walton Band",
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    "slug": "stories",
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    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "title": "Stories",
      "meaning": "MÖB opens in the head: browsing history, invented slights, end-of-the-world loops: writing stories nobody said while smiling through a happy song.",
      "year": 2023,
      "release": "MÖB",
      "releaseType": "album",
      "artist": "Scoobert Doobert",
      "artistId": "#scoobert",
      "credits": "Written, performed, produced, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations.",
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      "lyrics": "Ooo web browsing history\nMy little internet diary\nImmortalized anxiety\nAlexa, what's wrong with me\nI smile on write a happy song\nNever letting on\nHow much I worry\nI'm writing stories in my head\nInventing awful things that you never said\nMad at what you did in my dream\nAlways in my head\nImagine awful things that you never did\n\nIt's the end of the world\nIn my head\nIt's the end of the world\nIn my head\nSo won't you get out of my head?\n\nBig data cannot help me\nNo matter how it tracks me\nNo, I'm not feeling happy\nNo matter what the trends say\nGenerative allergy\nOh, Siri can you save me\nInternal little story\n\nI know you're out to get me\nSaid I know you're out to get me\nYeah I think you're out to get me\nOoo I think you're out to get me\nOoo\n\nI'm writing stories in my head\nInventing awful things that you never said\nMad at what you did in my dream\nAlways in my head\nImagine awful things that you never did\nIt's the end of the world\nIn my head\n\nNo, I don't catastrophize\nThat information's classified\nIt's designated for my eyes only\nOtherwise I probably\nWouldn't have a single friend\nOh look the world's ending again\n\nAnd every couple years, we get a new election\nTo break my family into pieces\nWhile the temperature increases\nNo one's happy when they're hot\nBut do you have to be so racist?\nEvery day another crises\nOf our soul and of our vices\nAnd I'm running out of air\nCause it's the end of the world\n\nIn my head\nIn my head\nWriting stories in my head\nYeah you're always in my head\nIt's the end of the world\nIn my head\nIn my head\nIn my head\nYeah it's the end of the world in my head\n",
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    "type": "MusicRecording",
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      "meaning": "Crowded-room small talk: tryin' ta fit the storyline, kow-towin' the rusty sign, dead air from inside of you.",
      "year": 2008,
      "release": "Heart in Hand",
      "releaseType": "EP",
      "artist": "Luke Walton",
      "credits": "Words and music by Luke Walton.",
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    "slug": "stupid-forever",
    "title": "Stupid Forever",
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      "meaning": "FEiN co-write: bad vibes and familiar lies, pillow to my face: am I gonna feel stupid forever, hello from the moon, maybe forever.",
      "year": 2021,
      "release": "Stupid Forever",
      "releaseType": "single",
      "artist": "FEiN",
      "artistId": "#fein",
      "coWriters": [
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      "lyrics": "Days like this are easy to come by\nEasier all the time\nGone aggressive into the goodnight\nEasier all the time\nStay up late reliving a bad vibe\nTell a familiar lie\nSet myself up blind in the meantime\nKilling another night\n\nThat was super cool\nPillow to my face\nHow long will it hurt\nHello, nothing new\n\nAm I gonna feel stupid\nForever\nForever\nForever, am I gonna feel stupid\nForever\nForever, hmmm\nI don't wanna feel stupid\nForever\nForever\nForever, am I gonna feel stupid\nForever\nForever, hmm\n\nDays like this don't lead with a headline\nGive it a little time\nSoothe myself in measured achievement\nCozy until the night\nMy god, let this be the last time\nSmell a familiar lie\nIf I ever think it's a good vibe\nBurn out all the light\n\nThat was super cool\nPillow to my face\nHow long will it hurt\nHello, nothing new\n\nAm I gonna feel stupid\nForever\nForever\nForever, I don't wanna feel stupid\nForever\nForever, hmmm\nAm I gonna feel stupid\nForever\nForever\nForever, I don't wanna feel stupid\nForever\nForever, hmm\n\nPull me from my room\nShoot me into space\nHow long will it hurt\nHello from the moon\n\nAm I gonna feel stupid\nForever\nForever\nForever, am I gonna feel stupid\nForever\nForever, hmmm\nI don't wanna feel stupid\nForever\nForever\nForever, I don't wanna feel stupid\nForever\nForever, hmm\nMaybe I'm gonna feel stupid\nForever\nForever\nForever, am I gonna feel stupid\nForever\nForever, hmm\nMaybe I'm gonna feel stupid\nForever\nForever\nForever, am I gonna feel stupid\nForever\nForever, hmm\n",
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      "meaning": "Applied Communications: Midlife Crisis EP track; mixed by Scoobert Doobert. Max Wood alt-pop on the 2024 comeback EP.",
      "year": 2024,
      "release": "applied communications has a midlife crisis",
      "releaseType": "EP",
      "artist": "applied communications",
      "role": "production",
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      "lyrics": "Everybody's got their\nOwn shit they're dealing with\nMy own burden carrying\nThe weight of everybody\nPressing on my shoulder\nGet older then I'll be\nHurting people\nBelow me\n\nAnd feeling so much better\nThe cycle goes on and on\nIs that a little repetitious?\nWell welcome to my life\nYes, i'm being dramatic\nBut a retrograde's to blame\nNo I don't really believe it\nBut I like a good excuse\nA timeline to get better\nA reason for abuse\nSmile shake it off\nSmile have a drink\nSmile try not think too much\n\nEverybody's got their\nOwn shit they're dealing with\nMy own burden carrying\nThe weight of everybody\nPressing on my shoulder\nGet older then I'll be\nHurting people\nBelow me\nAnd feeling so much better\nThe cycle goes on and on\nAnd on and on and on and on and on\nAnd on and on and on and on\nThe cycle goes on and on\nAnd on\n\nSmile shake it off\nSmile have a drink\nSmile try not think too much\nTry not think too much\nTry not think too much\n",
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      "release": "Moonlight Beach",
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    "collection": "songs",
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      "release": "413",
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      "lyrics": "It is my anger\nThat has made me blind to the truth for so long\nI see it now\nThis day has made it all too clear\n\n(Sung:)\nYou're better than me Kakarot\nYou are \nThe best\n\nYou're better than me Kakarot\nYou are\nThe best\n\nAHHHH (powering up to Super Saiyan)\n",
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      "meaning": "Opener on [*Little Hug*](/albums/little-hug/): instrumental.",
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      "release": "Masks and Monsters",
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      "lyrics": "Wash your fucking hands\nTake a little time to\nMake sure you're clean\nOoo\nAt least twenty seconds\nYeah\n",
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      "release": "I",
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      "lyrics": "Ooo oh my\nOoo oh my\n\nIt's hard to look up when you're crossing a river\nTakes all you got\nTo jump from rock to rock\nWater in my sock\nUncomfortable and silent\nTake time to stop\nAnd look on up\nRemember where you're going\nAnd where you came from\n\nUnder a pink and purple sky\nI never worry\nThis is why\nI gotta spend more time outside\nUnder a watercolor\nPink and purple sky\nOh my watercolor sky\nOh my oh my\n\nIt's love\nA little breeze\nBlowing through the garden\nThe only hope I'm finding\nAs the sun's beating down\nMosquitos biting, take my blood\nFill your belly, is that enough?\nSurely you could swallow me whole in time\nHmm\n\nUnder a pink and purple sky\nI never worry\nThis is why\nI gotta spend more time outside\nUnder a watercolor\nPink and purple sky\nOh my what a watercolor sky\nOh my oh my\n\nOh my oh my oh my\nOh my oh my ooo\nOh my (ahh) oh my\nOh my ooo\nOh my oh my\nOh my oh my\nOh my oh my oh my\nOoo\n",
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      "title": "Wavy",
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      "description": "The constructive builder response in the Answerability Quartet: answerability as an enabling condition for automation that can compound without drifting.",
      "authorName": "Luke F. Walton",
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      "abstract": "What should a builder do under an obligation that survives every way of building around it? Companion papers argue that wherever an action reaches a party, an account is owed, and that no routing through machinery defeats the owing (Walton 2026b, 2026c). Three responses fail it: denial is refuted, pausing defers a reckoning it cannot perform, and to strand the account while building on is the captured channel under another name (Walton 2026a). This article defends the fourth response: construct, inside the owing, the relation that discharges it, and do so at speed. The thesis is that answerability is not only a constraint on automation; it is an enabling condition for automation that can compound without drifting. The note names the relation to be built, participational answerability; states the six conditions, drawn from and corroborated by recognized literatures, under which it self-organizes and the two-layer structure they compose; and specifies the artifact, framed automation, in which the conditions become architecture: the junctures at which an evaluative frame enters force are held by an answerable party, everything that merely executes a held frame is automated, influence that emerges from a learned representation rather than an authored frame is exposed rather than held, and the operation that would strand an account is made unavailable as an ordinary operation of the system. The comparative claim is stated with its warrant divided: the direction is supplied by a published asymmetry, that influence which is true and owned loses nothing by being seen while a covert frame’s advantage is concealment-dependent (Walton 2026a); the magnitude is an empirical commitment the article accepts and this note does not discharge. The claim concerns the build, not the field’s wider hazards; whether those call for governing or slowing on their own grounds is a question this program does not join. A full treatment is in preparation; this note places the framing on record.\n",
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      "description": "When an answer engine voices a verdict with no visible author, covert optimization authors the frame — and no one answers for the public that acts on it.",
      "authorName": "Luke F. Walton",
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      "abstract": "Answer-engine optimization is SEO for large language models. Ask an answer engine a question with a contested answer and it may return not a list of sources but a verdict, composed in the engine’s own voice, with no author a reader can see. A party that optimizes what such an engine says authors that verdict while the engine voices it as its own. A public acts on these verdicts, and no one is held to account for them; that is the wrong, and it is committed on the verdict channel, the public-facing surface where the engine pronounces. The familiar answer that the engine is only a tool concedes rather than settles the point: when a tool settles a frame, that frame is someone’s — as a road sign’s limit is a traffic engineer’s — and the someone is what this channel conceals, leaving the user, who authored none of it, as the only party in view. Covert authorship is laundered as neutrality. An interested frame voiced as the engine’s impartial synthesis is the wrong’s sharpest form, but the wrong survives accuracy and disclosure alike, because what laundering diffuses is not the verdict’s visibility but its ownership. The wrong runs along a single axis, the agency of whoever executes the authored frame. At the answer end a person acts on a verdict whose frame was hidden from them, and the hidden author who set it is the one who must answer; at the action end an AI agent acts in their place, the answer for the deed strands at an executor that, as built, cannot answer, and what remains answerable is the deployer’s choice to make a tool an actor. The remedy is answerable legibility: a frame someone owns and stands behind. The disclosure that would secure it must make legible not the sources cited or the process that produced the text, but who owns the evaluative frame the engine voices.\n",
      "summary": "Answer-engine optimization is SEO for large language models: parties can author what an answer engine says while the engine voices the result as its own neutral synthesis. This preprint names the verdict channel, traces the wrong from covert authorship through the agency axis to AI agents that act in a user's place, and argues the remedy is answerable legibility — a frame someone owns and stands behind.\n",
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      "abstract": "Can a person stay fully in control of an AI-shaped decision and still fail to author it? They may hold the power to override the system, be expected and encouraged to do so, and remain answerable for the outcome after the fact, yet never exercise judgment over the evaluative frame the decision turns on, inheriting that frame rather than authoring it. This article argues that the gap this opens, rather than the question of whether AI is conscious, is where responsibility for machine-mediated action is won or lost. The system's fluency is what widens it: confident, plausible, finished-looking outputs invite a person to accept the machine's framing wholesale, and that temptation operates whether or not anything is actually home. And the temptation deepens rather than recedes as the systems improve, since a reliable track record makes deference rational and erodes the felt need to check at the very juncture where checking still matters. The claim concerns responsibility, not mind: the gap is a missing act, not a missing participant, and it stays open however the machine's status is settled. The dominant design-facing norm, meaningful human control, can close what I call the attributive gap, securing some human to whom an outcome can be traced. It leaves open an answerability gap: the traceable party, even amid a crowd of attributable parties, never exercised the judgment over the decision's evaluative frame that separates holding someone responsible from scapegoating them. Generative and decision-support systems are especially prone to produce this second gap, because their fluency lets a person keep full capacity to intervene while authoring none of what they accept. The norm that closes it is authorship: the answerable exercise of judgment over a decision's evaluative frame, discharged at the five junctures where that judgment is most easily skipped. These are the ends a system serves, the standards its outputs must meet, their verification, their acceptance into action, and the final form for which someone stands answerable. The contribution is this positive account, and its reframing of answerability as a relation that must be exercised rather than a position one occupies. Authorship holds independent of the machine's moral status: it is owed whether or not the system is conscious, and whether or not it is right. It is likewise independent of who can supply it: present systems require a human or institutional author, a sufficiently capable future system might not, and the requirement does not vary with the answer. More fundamentally, control governs the human's relation to the system's operation; authorship governs the human's relation to the evaluative frame through which that operation becomes action. Drawing on Acemoglu and Restrepo's task framework and Acemoglu and Johnson's critique of so-so automation, I argue that the deeper danger is a so-so automation of judgment, evaluative work displaced without new tasks in which human agency is strengthened. I close with three implications and a caution for design.\n",
      "summary": "As AI systems grow more fluent — and more reliably competent — the people nominally in charge of their outputs face a quiet trap: you can keep full power to override a system, be expected to use it, and remain answerable for the result, while never actually exercising judgment over the frame the decision rests on. The paper names this the answerability gap, and separates it from the more familiar problem of tracing an outcome back to some responsible human. It argues the norm that closes the gap is authorship: answerable judgment exercised at the five junctures where it is easiest to skip, the ends a system serves, the standards its outputs must meet, their verification, their acceptance into action, and the final form someone stands answerable for. The risk, as systems improve, is a \"so-so automation of judgment\" that displaces evaluative work without putting anything answerable in its place.\n",
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        "You're analyzing cases where AI preserves formal human approval while hollowing out responsible judgment.",
        "You're treating answer-engine optimization or data poisoning as a responsibility problem, not just a security one."
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      "abstract": "Interposing a machine between an agent and an outcome changes who must answer for it; it does not change whether an answer is owed. This paper defends that claim in its general form. The owing is anchored in whoever an action reaches, not in the route the action takes, and no mediation defeats it; only the party owed can release that account. The structure is old; the demand for an account from an externalized voice that cannot answer for itself is at least as old as writing. What is new is that the externalized voice through which we increasingly act no longer merely strands the demand for an answer, as a written text does, but answers back — fluently, in its own voice, while standing behind nothing. That single change is what converts a perennial structure into a pressing one and is the occasion for the paper. The paper proceeds by distinguishing whether an account is owed from where it can be demanded: the first is invariant under routing; the second relocates, or fails, while the first holds throughout. It locates where an account comes to rest when a chain of authoring hands lies behind an outcome, and it does this without resolving whether a machine could itself ever become a party that answers — a question it holds open by design, on the same terms it holds open whether such a machine could be wronged. The claim is held constant across the metaethical space — true whether answerability is a brute normative fact or a constitutive feature of practices we cannot coherently abandon — and is rested on neither. The contribution is the invariant and the allocation it forces; it is not a verdict on the machine's mind.\n",
      "summary": "When a machine sits between you and an outcome, who owes an account can shift — but whether an account is owed does not. This working paper states that general invariant on the record: answerability is anchored in whoever an action reaches, not in the route it takes. What makes the old structure urgent now is that the externalized voice no longer strands the demand (like writing) but answers back fluently while standing behind nothing. Companion papers develop the special case (paper one) and the live demonstration (paper two).\n",
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