The Internet
May 6, 2022 6:54 AM Subscribe
The Internet is a 2021 song and meme-centric video by Oliver Tree and Little Big (previously), from their EP "Welcome to the Internet". Oliver Tree and Little Big also worked together - with Tommy Cash - on the song and video "Turn it up" [CW: motion sickness].
Lyrics:
Welcome to the internet, we're living in a meme
Digital avatars, hide behind their screens
You can see it in your mentions
We got demons in the comment section
Screaming for redemption
'Cause they don't get enough attention
Welcome to the inter-inter-inter-inter-internet
Try to be mean to me 'cause you don't think with intellect
Everybody spreading fingers, listen to the people of
Hiding on the internet are always talking trash
I try not to listen
Welcome to my prison
I am so connected
But I still feel so alone
I'm trapped in your laptop
And I'm trapped inside your phone
Welcome to the internet, we're living in a meme
Digital avatars, hide behind their screens
You can see it in your mentions
We got demons in the comment section
Screaming for redemption
'Cause they don't get enough attention
Welcome to the inter-inter-inter-inter-internet
Where we are, rumours start, travelling through things they said
Every lie and propaganda shoved into your face
Every time fake news tries to spread right through your veins
I do not believe it
Give me one good reason
All the sheep that I talk to
Still can't read the room
You can say what you want to
But the wolves will be there too
Welcome to the internet, we're living in a meme
Digital avatars, hide behind their screens
You can see it in your mentions
We got demons in the comment section
Screaming for redemption
'Cause they don't get enough attention
Lyrics:
Welcome to the internet, we're living in a meme
Digital avatars, hide behind their screens
You can see it in your mentions
We got demons in the comment section
Screaming for redemption
'Cause they don't get enough attention
Welcome to the inter-inter-inter-inter-internet
Try to be mean to me 'cause you don't think with intellect
Everybody spreading fingers, listen to the people of
Hiding on the internet are always talking trash
I try not to listen
Welcome to my prison
I am so connected
But I still feel so alone
I'm trapped in your laptop
And I'm trapped inside your phone
Welcome to the internet, we're living in a meme
Digital avatars, hide behind their screens
You can see it in your mentions
We got demons in the comment section
Screaming for redemption
'Cause they don't get enough attention
Welcome to the inter-inter-inter-inter-internet
Where we are, rumours start, travelling through things they said
Every lie and propaganda shoved into your face
Every time fake news tries to spread right through your veins
I do not believe it
Give me one good reason
All the sheep that I talk to
Still can't read the room
You can say what you want to
But the wolves will be there too
Welcome to the internet, we're living in a meme
Digital avatars, hide behind their screens
You can see it in your mentions
We got demons in the comment section
Screaming for redemption
'Cause they don't get enough attention
I got turned on to Oliver Tree through Little Big. Hypnodancer is a fave by Little Big.
posted by boilermonster at 11:43 PM on May 7, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by boilermonster at 11:43 PM on May 7, 2022 [1 favorite]
I like that there is a cultural reference handy for anyone who has touched a computer since the 1990s. Modem sounds, floppy disks, cathode-ray monitors, Windows XP, the guy literally surfing on some newspapers. I guess there is also Snapchat and TikTok and the Bitcoin roller coaster. But everything seems safely pre-pandemic, and all of the troll faces seem to be annoying normal people rather than agents of fascist disinformation.
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 8:43 PM on May 8, 2022
posted by fantabulous timewaster at 8:43 PM on May 8, 2022
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