New Single!: Republican Cereal

wredfright · Republican Cereal

This song is about people who become so obsessed by politics that everything, even the morning cereal bowl, becomes political.  I suppose one can make the argument that everything is ultimately political, but when it's this explicitly political, and there are Republican facts and Democratic facts and Third Party facts instead of just facts that everyone agrees on and maybe has different opinions on, life tends to get worse.  We're seeing this in the larger culture currently, and you may even know people like this in everyday life.  Musically, I had fun with some of my son's old toys that he was getting rid of.  Otherwise, it's the usual guitar and drums, though I worked a new drum machine also into the mix.  The track has that old school Severe Platter Damage hiss to it because the mastering tool I use to remove the hiss from my cheap Radio Shack mic couldn't handle it this time.  Some people like the hiss as it has a bit of what people describe as warmth when speaking of analog media such as vinyl, but my recordings tend to be noisy enough that I don't want a snake hissing underneath everything as well.  However, not unlike the obsession with politics by too many people currently, more hiss may be in our future if I don't figure out another way to remove the noise without harming any of the sounds I want to keep.  Lyrics are below:  

I liked it better when Election Day was just once or twice a year.
Now every single day, you're yammering politics in my ear.

She won't eat Republican cereal.
He won't drink Democratic milk.

As you set the cereal bowl on the counter next to the kitchen sink,
you tell me you just don't talk with people who don't think the way that you think.
Well, with an attitude like that, you're going to find yourself all alone.
Maybe you should stop doomscrolling so much in that echobox you call your phone.

When you look at people, you just see the sectarian divide,
everything color-coded and primed to collide.
You've got your partisan spoon, and your friends all spoon it up the same way.
You don't like getting your ideas challenged, so there's no breakfast today. 

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