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Phone Plan
Metadata
- title
- Phone Plan
- meaning
- My ass is wifi-ready but you need a phone plan: connectivity hardware without a data contract, love as signal you can't actually use.
- year
- 2018
- release
- $WAMI$
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/track/7b7Pm5spXPLUUIN0JKbWFU
- bandcamp
- https://scoobertdoobert.bandcamp.com/album/wami-lp
- themes
- internet
- wifi
- WAMI
- 2018
- isrc
- USLZJ1826922
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Content
On $WAMI$ the Spotify title shortens to Phone Plan; the Bandcamp tracklist name is My Ass Is Wifi Ready (But You Need a Phone Plan): track two on the twenty-song collage, right after Prometheus & Groove.
The joke is infrastructure vs. access. Wifi-ready hardware means nothing if nobody bought the plan, same energy as having a crush who likes your posts but never texts back, or being online without the bandwidth to actually arrive somewhere. It is early Scoobert internet-brain comedy: bodily, stupid, and accidentally diagnostic of how relationships work when the connection is always on but the contract is missing.
Later catalog picks up the thread in different registers — Debby (phone-as-throne worship), time with u (I think my phone is dead but I might leave it that way), All My Friends Live on the Internet (friends as packets). Phone Plan is the $WAMI$ version: rude title, real loneliness underneath.
Luke Francis Walton, write, play, track, mix. Part of the May 2018 Bandcamp LP and the longer visual album cut.