I think the concept is fairly straightforward here. Corporations think they deserve our eyes and our ears and if they could, every waking moment would be sponsored by something. One thing I like about the form is the bridge modulating down a whole step, from D to C.

This one is multitracked via just my laptop’s mono microphone, built on top of a base track of just the Hohner guitar and my vocals. Ukulele adds some more oomph for the choruses and some chopping in the verses, and some fingerpicked arpeggiated chords in the bridge, which also has a piano piece played on my laptop’s keyboard. A keyboard keyboard, if you will. I tried to stick to the “4 track rule” but vocals likely would have required bouncing down since the chorus has the base track, the uke, two vocal tracks, and the sampled handclaps all at once. I had originally recorded the claps with laptop microphone, but they sounded brittle and weak, so I went with a sample instead of overdubbing lots and lots of takes of me clapping.

Lyrics

You haven’t seen enough ads today
You haven’t heard enough ads today
You haven’t smelt, and you haven’t felt
You haven’t had enough ads today

We want you to know that you’re ugly

And we bet that you stink too
As long as you’re chill and contented
We know we’ve still got work to do
Think of what you don’t have
Think of what you don’t have

 

You haven’t seen enough ads today…

 

We’re also pretty sure that you’re stupid
And incapable of serious thought
A rational human being
Reduced to a graph and a dot
New look, same great taste
New look same great taste

 

You haven’t seen enough ads today…

 

We’re incapable of serious reflection

All we know is grow, grow, grow
You can’t avoid us, there is no protection
Just rejection, projection, subjection
No regulation and no control

You haven’t seen enough ads today…