[Intro] I can’t really, uh, play the guitar very well Um, or sing, so, you know, apologies
[Verse 1] Stunning 8K resolution meditation app In honor of the revolution, it’s half-off at the Gap Deadpool’s self-awareness, loving parents, harmless fun The backlash to the backlash to the thing that’s just begun
[Chorus] There it is again That funny feeling That funny feeling There it is again That funny feeling That funny feeling
[Verse 2] The surgeon general’s pop-up shop, Robert Iger’s face Discount Etsy agitprop, Bugles’ take on race Female Colonel Sanders, easy answers, civil war The whole world at your fingеrtips, the ocean at your door The livе-action Lion King, the Pepsi Halftime Show Twenty-thousand years of this, seven more to go Carpool Karaoke, Steve Aoki, Logan Paul A gift shop at the gun range, a mass shooting at the mall
[Chorus] There it is again That funny feeling That funny feeling There it is again That funny feeling That funny feeling
[Verse 3] Reading Pornhub’s terms of service, going for a drive And obeying all the traffic laws in Grand Theft Auto V Full agoraphobic, losing focus, cover blown A book on getting better hand-delivered by a drone Total disassociation, fully out your mind Googling “derealization,” hating what you find That unapparent summer air in early fall The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all
[Chorus] There it is again That funny feeling That funny feeling There it is again That funny feeling That funny feeling
[Outro] Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it’ll be over soon You wait Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it’ll be over soon Just wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-da-da-da Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it’ll be over soon You wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-da-da-da Hey, what can you say? We were overdue, oh But it’ll be over soon You wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da Hey, what can you say? We were overdue But it’ll be over soon You wait Ba-da-da, ba-da-da, ba-da-da-da-da-da-da
VolcanoWonderpants@pawb.social 8 months ago
What a talented singer. Reading some of the comments, it was a little sad seeing all the people who related to the ‘derealization’ part of the lyrics.
person@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Must have listened to the song a hundred times, but I have yet to google “derealization”. I’m guessing I wouldn’t like what I find.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s typically felt by survivors of serious trauma or severely mentally unwell people. I think it’s misunderstood by people who like to list their mental disorders on tumblr as a critique of the world around you.
Capitalism causes a dull sense of derealization because the world around you isn’t natural and it isn’t real. It’s all a market. You’re just shoveled off the plane of true reality to be a more efficient consumer and worker in service of capitalism. That’s a depersonalization we all experience, but it’s more of a conscious realization than a mental disorder.
Maybe this take is a little hot, but I think if people stopped using terms like this to make themselves feel “more real” or more interesting or more enlightened than others, then we could find some solidarity and fight against this fucked up system that is killing us earlier, killing the planet, and co-opting our entire reality for profit. That’s a serious problem that has corrupted our one shot at life. We are born into a system that churns us into perfect cogs for a machine that runs on us instead of for us. That is a hard pill to swallow. But instead of that realization being held over your title so as to make people see you differently, maybe that is the exact kick we all desperately need to ardently fight for a different system, a different world than the one we’ve been herded into.
It’s real. And it’s fucked up. But it’s not an individualistic problem for probably 80% of the people that google it/think they feel it. It’s a product of this warped system of capitalism. Unite over it. Don’t pin it to your lapel.
Nudding@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hard to feel mad or sad about the climate apocalypse when you don’t feel.
cqthca@reddthat.com 7 months ago
for the younger people, when I was young in the 1970’s the smog was plentiful and they worked on non-pollution. It got very much cleaned up and no one remembers the massive effort to convince people to pay extra for things, so catalytic converters and such could help with pollution. Also, in the 1970’s a nearby small lake would freeze over every winter. I can’t remember it being safe to skate on one day since 2003.