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High Society
Metadata
- 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
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- credits
- Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Artwork by Grizzard Graphics.
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/2wGa9TxP1UvCn1hnfyyV6v
- youtube
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vjucF-5-Ss
- officialVideo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vjucF-5-Ss
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/k%C5%8Dan/1618191665
- themes
- KŌAN
- social media
- anxiety
- wellness culture
- nostalgia
- choice
- press
- outlet
- Beformer — Spotify Indie Brandneu (Instagram)
- url
- https://www.instagram.com/p/CcJEoDmPdvP/
- desc
- April 9, 2022 — official Spotify Indie Brandneu (Germany) add; thanks egoFM / Max Klement for on-air that week.
- isrc
- QZDA82242997
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
I'm thinking about Deleting all of my my Social media But then I'm never gonna Get get get Get invited to another party I'm dreaming about life Long before the internet Too bad I'm too young To remember it Y2K all-day Party Like it be 1999 Good vibes only Momma shoulda told me How to keep smiling In this reality Good vibes only No negativity Can't keep up with My anxiety High society Society Ee We're living in a High society Society Ee Make me happy Do do do do do Momma make me happy Do do do do do Give anything for me to be A freedom to pursue Doesn't mean I'll ever catch it I'm paralyzed by Every option I can choose Another thing I wanna do Is a desire all that bad Pleasure, power, fame, and profit I'm a catfish See it to Believe it Shallow in the deep end Good vibes only Momma shoulda told me How to keep smiling In this reality Good vibes only No negativity Can't keep up with My anxiety High society Society Ee We're living in a High society Society Ee Make me happy Do do do do do do do Do do do do do do do do do Do do do do do do do Do do do do do do do do do Do do do do do do do Do do do do do do do do do Do do do do do do do Do do do do do do do do do Good vibes only Momma shoulda told me How to keep smiling In this reality Good vibes only No negativity Can't keep up with My anxiety High society Society Ee We're living in a High society Society Ee Make me happy I'm thinking about I'm thinking about I'm thinking about I'm thinking about Deleting all of my my Social media But then I'm never gonna Get get get Get invited to another party Make me happy Momma make me happy Make me happy Momma make me happy Do do do do do do do do do
Content
Track twelve on KŌAN, KŌAN B era on the full LP (between More to Lose and instrumental Intro). Luke solo, same Riley Knapp master chain as the rest of the record. Satirical wellness pop with a party-invite panic underneath.
The opener names the trap and stutters on the anxious words: deleting all of my my social media, but then I'm never gonna get get get invited to another party. From there it longs for a decade it's too young to remember (party like it be 1999) and runs the good vibes only chorus as the culture's failed command, wellness language losing to the nervous system it forbids: no negativity, can't keep up with my anxiety. The high society hook chants class satire and the Instagram high life as one syllable, and verse two is option paralysis sliding into a confession, I'm a catfish, shallow in the deep end: the curated self as fraud, depth as performance.
The outro stacks I'm thinking about and momma make me happy until the delete-social-media verse comes back whole, the invite fear returning intact. Same KŌAN thread as All My Friends Live on the Internet and the LP-only disinformation pair (Miss Disinformation, to everyone who had a good pandemic). Lighter cousin of Don't Worry on Big Hug: same good vibes poison, more pop bounce.
Spotify editorial: @beformer confirmed Indie Brandneu (April 9, 2022); the same post thanks egoFM for on-air that week with host Max Klement — same April 2022 Munich radio thread as the Apr 6 interview promo. See Catalog: official playlists.