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URL for video of this song: youtu.be/mzYvwsIzFdI

I guess that everyone knows this stuff and that everyone agrees – that there’s something very wrong with the news and newspapers and on-line and on-line news and – all news. So this is a kind of howl of obviousness set to music – though often I discover other people that aren’t as wound up about stuff and are generally more relaxed than me. A song about clickbait and content free ‘content’.

I had a vague idea that there was a drum loop around ‘in the vaults’ (I like that phrase, usually applied to old Beatles recordings etc.) done by Simon Smith that I might be able to use on this – and there was. And it worked. Not that many people have tracks that are just acoustic guitars and drums too so it was good to have one like that.

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News

One Twitter user said ‘it’s all a disgrace’
One Twitter user writes our news
A trainee intern and a cleaner run the place
‘Cause there’s no money left at all

This is how we make the news, payment and content free
This is how we sell the space, editorial and judgement free

We’ve Wikipedia, a quick spell-check on the train
We had a man up in the North
Sponsored content and a wrap-around for phones
Pick us up on your way home

This is how we make the news, opinion and ignorance led
This is where we count the clicks on adverts not knowingly read

Here’s something that no-one ever said but if they had then you’d be cross
This celebrity made some money, the amount will drop your jaw
Here’s an actress who over forty years seems to have aged

Shout your opinion and we’re bound to pick it out
If you’re a bigot or a fool
We don’t judge you because everyone is right
Just send it in we’ll ship it out

This is how we sell the news, by storms and spats and fights
This is how we trade the truth for tweets and clicks and likes

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from Virtually Alive EP, released September 18, 2017
Drums by Simon Smith.

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