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Rosie Tucker Asks Big Questions in the Catchiest Way Possible
“I had been trying to write songs speaking more to my values for years. It just took some growing up to be able to articulate these things.”
Over 13 songs backed by distorted guitars and blazing drum fills, Tucker’s searing vocals bemoan the inherent dislocation of our modern world while searching for moments of truth and human connection. On “Lightbulb,” they describe the feeling of being an artist in the digital economy (“I’m a brain in a jar, I’m a face on a screen”); “Gil Scott Albatross” muses on the modern space race, rueing that “They’re gonna turn the moon into a sweatshop.” The song, emotionally, is functioning in terms of watching a person who is kind of willing to harness everything in their life to end their own productivity or career.
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