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What about those ads?

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Jan 23
  • 1 min read

I saw something that Rana, from the PSNA film, was posting about which inspired the Fucked-Up Children of the Rich video. There's no incitements to violence in the lyrics. It's 'fuck the children' not 'kill the children' It's 'scramble his egg pan' not 'scramble his brain pan' In Children of the Rich, it's the eggs who are excluding people. AI imagery is getting really good, and it's a bit unsettling. - As I said this morning, they're video loops, so it's more like they prime the space for meaning rather than carrying semiotic intent. What people are reacting to are essentially their own projections. If they take some smoke piercing a rainbow-painted hut on a Pacific Island to be a reference to October 7, then that's definitely a projection. My reason for including that was to dig at the tourist industry. I think this suggests that even framing an album with Middle Eastern techniques is automatically seen as evil by the powers-that-be. In their projections, all of us are barely human. I'm entering text prompts to make videos. It's not always what I meant, but I tend to roll with the output if it's decent enough. My intent is simply to paint the lyrics semi-literally. The comic cartoons carry meanings, but that's mostly for comic value. - My view is that I got the jump on everyone with my ads this election, and as a result they're all annoyed that I didn't have a family to hang out with over the holidays. They're more like a worst-case scenario.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Jan 23

Rest Up, Fight Back is essentially an anthem for the silent vigils.

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Jan 23
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We could make the vigil like a strike. People protesting by occupying the grounds.

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