Culture Industry

from Spring/Summer EP NO.1 2021 by Band Aparte

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Sometimes I see an object or "art" piece
It's a culture industry
Reproduced and repackaged “content”
It's a culture industry
In your very own home
You can be the girl with a Van Gogh in your hands

Pay up, pay up, it's who you are
Your expensive future self
Pay up, pay up, it's who you are
Your expensive future self
Pay up, pay up, it's who you are
Your expensive future self
Pay up, pay up, it's who you are
Your expensive future self

The cultural logic of late capitalism
Everything has been subsumed
Art and culture have become technologically reproducible

You know you want it
Because they want it too
Individuals produced on a screen
But it's all jargon of authenticity
Mass society
Yeah yeah yeah
One dimensional
We've heard it all before

Pay up, pay up, it's who you are
Your expensive future self
Pay up, pay up, it's who you are
Your expensive future self
Pay up, pay up, it's who you are
Your expensive future self
Pay up, pay up, it's who you are
Your expensive future self

I will not be in will debt to another man for capital
I will not be a slave to your psychoanalytical advertising techniques on the self

They are the enemy
They are the enemy
They are the enemy
They are the enemy
They are the enemy
You love your enemy
You love your enemy
They are the enemy
They are the enemy
You love your enemy

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from Spring/Summer EP NO.1 2021, released July 2, 2021

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Band Aparte Los Angeles, California

Brian Mendoza

Ryan Fairchild

Adryan Mardesich

Micah Olsen

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