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title: "Oddly Satisfying"

meaning: "Plague Beats opener: little things appear if you keep looking: mundane alignment, man the measure of all things or just a dream."

year: 2020
release: "Plague Beats, Vol. 1"
releaseType: "EP"

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

credits: "Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton."

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/oddly-satisfying/1532121341?i=1532121342"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3q7oAEFJK9uSHY4F8EJ5Td"
youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm9qqbVUAsc"

themes: ["Plague Beats", "philosophy", "ASMR", "2020", "instrumental"]

isrc: QZK6H2062922
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  It's oddly satisfying
  That the little things can appear
  As long as you keep looking out

  It's vaguely mystifying
  How the mundane can align
  A simple confluence of time
  Ooo

  Is man the measure of all things
  Or is it just a dream
  Ah ooo

  Ah ooo

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Track one on [*Plague Beats, Vol. 1*](/albums/plague-beats-vol-1/) (**September 21, 2020**), a six-track beat tape at roughly one minute per track. Luke solo, same pandemic season as [*Masks and Monsters*](/albums/masks-and-monsters/) and [*Moving to Canada*](/songs/moving-to-canada/). The title borrows the **oddly satisfying** video genre (ASMR alignment, things that fit perfectly) and whispers a little philosophy over a plague-era beat.

The bridge is Protagoras in a minute, *is man the measure of all things / or is it just a dream*, the same [homō mensura](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protagoras#%22Man_is_the_measure_of_all_things%22) gag that runs through [*Derrida Makes a Différance*](/songs/derrida-makes-a-differance/) and [*Don't Know Much*](/songs/dont-know-much/), here compressed to a beat-tape sigh that dissolves into *ah ooo*. It's the closest thing this EP has to a thesis; everything after it is a joke.

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