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title: "Get the Funk Out of My Head"

meaning: "News-cycle funk as depression: NYT apocalypse in 4K, no mental health days for hourly workers: and the relationship split where you want to go out while I stay in, anything for you anyway."

year: 2022
release: "KŌAN"
releaseType: "album"

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

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Drums: Clyde Stubblefield sample pack (cleared)."

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/2wGa9TxP1UvCn1hnfyyV6v"
youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AllVYay4Wc"
officialVideo: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AllVYay4Wc"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/k%C5%8Dan/1618191665"

themes: ["KŌAN", "funk", "depression", "news", "work", "relationships", "post-pandemic"]

press:
  - outlet: "Beformer — Get the Funk Out of My Head on Spotify Soirée (Instagram)"
    url: "https://www.instagram.com/p/ChNXXzZJ8Qh/"
    desc: "August 13, 2022 — official Soirée editorial add; KŌAN LP fourth movement (LP Sep 9)."

isrc: QZES82288270
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  Got to get the funk out of my head
  Do what I got to do
  For me to get through
  Anything for you

  I got to get the funk out of my head
  Might be hard to do
  But we will make it through
  Do it all for you

  Yeah, you want to go out
  And I want to stay in again
  And you want to get down
  And I don't want to stay up again

  Yeah, the funk got me
  Down down down down down down down

  I wake up
  I think today
  Is gonna be a good day
  But then I get a New York Times notification
  Getting kind of used to
  Apocalyptic situations
  Every day another
  Breaking news saturation
  Why do we got to be
  Living through history
  Shot in 4k
  Another bad day

  Got to get the funk out of my head
  Do what I got to do
  For me to get through
  Anything for you

  I got to get the funk out of my head
  Might be hard to do
  But we will make it through
  Do it all for you

  Yeah, you want to go out
  And I want to stay in again
  And you want to get down
  And I don't want to stay up again

  Yeah, the funk got me
  Down down down down down down down

  I need to lay down
  I think today
  Is probably gonna end me

  But hourly employees
  Like me they
  Don't get mental health days
  No way
  If you wanna get paid
  Then shake it off
  Buy more coffee
  It helps with anxiety

  Got to get the funk out of my head
  Do what I got to do
  For me to get through
  Anything for you

  I got to get the funk out of my head
  Might be hard to do
  But we will make it through
  Do it all for you

  Yeah, you want to go out
  And I want to stay in again
  And you want to get down
  And I don't want to stay up again

  Yeah, the funk got me
  Down down down down down down down
  Down down down down down down down

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Track twenty-two on [*KŌAN*](/albums/koan/), **LP-only** (fourth movement with *September*, *1101*, [*4:20 pm*](/songs/4-20-pm/), [*Miss Disinformation*](/songs/miss-disinformation/), [*to everyone who had a good pandemic*](/songs/to-everyone-who-had-a-good-pandemic/)). Not on the KŌAN A/B/C chapters. Luke solo. [@beformer announced official Spotify Soirée placement](https://www.instagram.com/p/ChNXXzZJ8Qh/) **August 13, 2022**, ahead of the full LP (**September 9, 2022**). The drums come from a **cleared Clyde Stubblefield sample pack**, James Brown's *Funky Drummer* lineage made literal, while the lyric uses *funk* to mean the bad thought stuck on loop.

The chorus is obligation pop: depression as an earworm (*do what I got to do / for me to get through*) that you serve someone else through anyway. The verse is couple mismatch after lockdown, *you want to go out / I want to stay in*, social energy against collapse, the same tension as [*Creature Comfort*](/songs/creature-comfort/) in relationship pronouns.

Two bridges supply the funk. One is notification dread, the good morning ruined by a *New York Times notification* and *getting kind of used to apocalyptic situations*, *living through history / shot in 4k*, the same media vertigo as [*I See the Moment*](/songs/i-see-the-moment/) on *Big Hug*. The other is wage-labor mental health: *hourly employees like me don't get mental health days*, so *buy more coffee / it helps with anxiety*. No HR, just caffeine. The outro doubles *down down down* and lets the funk win the last bar. Pairs with [*No Worries, Yes Worries*](/songs/no-worries-yes-worries/) (title-track anxiety flip) and the KŌAN C internet cluster.

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