FAWM: "meta"

meta

Liner Notes

My love song to meta.

Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Threads, Whatsapp, Messenger.. Meta is up all of our butts. It likely knows more about you than anyone else - including yourself, which I find a bit creepy. Sometimes for me, meta can almost feel like an abusive relationship that I am trapped in. Anyone else? Just me?

Because of the lyrical theme, I felt like a very #dark #synthpop or like #darkwave vibes and glitchy #robot vocals were in order.

Also, to my watchlist/followers, I realize I'm taking you (and me) on a crazy roller coaster of various genres and instrumentation styles this year. 😂 Making cohesive artist albums has never been a strength of mine, so I guess this FAWM is no exception.

Lyrics

Hybrid social life
Algorithm infection
You know me so well
Perfectly feeding my addiction

You hold more memories
Than my brain physically can
If I ever got rid of you
My life would feel broken

I wouldn’t know what's going on
I couldn’t be reached by anyone
I’d have no community
Impossible choice between
Losing you or being free

My attention is for sale
And you’re a wonderful salesman
You know exactly who my clicks
Could be sold to
Our attention is for sale
And you’re a fantastic salesman
Connecting us to whoever filters
The most money back to you

I wouldn’t know what's going on
I couldn’t be reached by anyone
I’d have no community
Impossible choice between
Losing you or being free

I give you my face, my voice, my data
My daily attention, all my time
You give me that feeling of human connection
You plant seeds attempting
to control the thoughts in my mind

I give you my face, my voice, my data
My daily attention, my whole life story
You give me that feeling of human connection
You plant seeds attempting
to control the thoughts I think

Comments

@ally_nicole 1w

Ok so I came to your page from the RC thread, then picked this after seeing the collab version and after reading the comments, I had to listen before hearing the collab! This was so cool, I love your melodies and the lyrics were so creative as well. Idk if you know who Poppy is, but this gives me early Poppy vibes for sure. I'd love to collab soon too if you're ever interested! 🧡

@steptide 1w

Will you please let me put drums on this!? 😁😁😁😁😁

@sunflowersummit 2w

Honestly this is so fucking cool and you gotta release it now

@markwilder 2w

This is awesome Katie!! When you produce this fully, I want some huge drums coming in around 1:03... EPIC SHIT!!! Great work!

@andrewjtaylor 2w

Wow! What a wild ride. 5 minutes later I’m still reeling. That Bridge hit hard. So good. Running through my head. And the subject matter and approach, so good. What an excellent contribution to your repertoire.

Oh, do you mind telling me what you used for the vocal glitch effect?

@markfulwider 2w

Oh and to hell with genres! Do what moves ya!

@markfulwider 2w

Very cool! Such an important subject matter for the times! Love the synths, and stutters, and vocal effects!

@roseofstolaf 2w

So dreamy. Like an edgier metric, and they are among my all time favorite bands! Looking forward to diving into the rest of your songs!

@aeye 2w

You def got the dark wave / synth pop going on so you were spot on there :). Great gating on the synths in here and the vocal effects too. Really well done. You've got a really strong vocal!

@luxury 2w

As a long-time meta anti who never joined facebook to begin with I can get behind this big time. the dark synths are excellent, it feels very cyberpunk. & as a fellow genre hopper I say that's a plus! Why should an album just be different variations of the same sound? Give the people a buffet! 😁

@sheslin 2w

Ah the creepy dark vibe is so totally appropriate for this topic! I personally have been avoiding meta as much as I can. I love the contrast of your delicate haunting vocals with the low pulsating synth. The musical treatment of the final stanzas is sooooo good - the higher pitch, volume and intensity - it feels so good to hear you really let it out. Repeating those lyrics seems so appropriate also. Wow great song!