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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"
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
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

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Track twelve on [*KŌAN*](/albums/koan/), **KŌAN B** era on the full LP (between [*More to Lose*](/songs/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*](/songs/all-my-friends-live-on-the-internet/) and the LP-only disinformation pair ([*Miss Disinformation*](/songs/miss-disinformation/), [*to everyone who had a good pandemic*](/songs/to-everyone-who-had-a-good-pandemic/)). Lighter cousin of [*Don't Worry*](/songs/dont-worry/) on *Big Hug*: same *good vibes* poison, more pop bounce.

**Spotify editorial:** [@beformer confirmed Indie Brandneu](https://www.instagram.com/p/CcJEoDmPdvP/) (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](https://www.instagram.com/p/CcASTR8IrM7/). See [Catalog: official playlists](/catalog/#spotify-editorial).

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