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title: "Friends"

meaning: "WAMI-era friendship song: affection without needing to meet IRL, before the internet-friends thesis got its own anthem."

year: 2018
release: "$WAMI$"
releaseType: "album"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/track/3G4XbvZXxENxIE4ksIoM3A"
bandcamp: "https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/wami-lp"

themes: ["friendship", "internet", "WAMI", "2018"]

isrc: TCADL1892440
isrcSource: soundexchange
draft: false

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Track four on [*$WAMI$*](/albums/wami/), the 2018 lore-dump LP recorded in a bathrobe between [*Finding $D*](/albums/finding-d-remastered/) and [*Dragon Ball $d*](/albums/dragon-ball-d/). **Friends** sits in the middle of the collage: after [*Phone Plan*](/songs/phone-plan/)’s wifi joke and the cartoon detours, before *Romantic Capitalism* and the Babidi features.

The title is plain on purpose. On an album full of meme titles and anime theology, this is one of the short sincere pop gestures, friendship as something worth naming without irony. Four years later [*All My Friends Live on the Internet*](/songs/all-my-friends-live-on-the-internet/) would make the thesis explicit (*would you be mad if I said I never really wanna meet ya in-person*). **Friends** is the earlier, softer version: you do not need the group-chat manifesto yet, just the feeling that someone on the other side of the screen counts.

Luke Francis Walton wrote, played, tracked, and mixed. Distro metadata lists the *$WAMI$* era under **Accidental Muse**; the Bandcamp LP dropped **May 9, 2018** as a free digital album.

See [Catalog](/catalog/) · [*$WAMI$* album notes](/albums/wami/)

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