I came home a little drunk on Friday night. I had been out drinking with a pair of Welsh guys from my football team and was simply not prepared for the beer-infused liver-assault ahead of me. After stumbling home a little after 1 I had the brilliant (at the time) idea to turn on my computer and kill time in a feeble attempt to sober up. My search for sobriety proved fruitless however in the process I managed to stumble across this gem from Australian songstress Kate Miller-Heidke.
The song is appropriately titled “Are You Fucking Kidding Me” and is a brilliant criticism of the most trivial aspect of everyone’s favorite online social networking tool, Facebook. The comical lyrics include references to various pointless features of the application such as Pirates, Stipper-names, “Poking”, and undesirable people from your past using the tool to “reconnect” with you. Combining a beautiful melody that demonstrates Miller-Heidke’s impressive vocal capability that verges on operatic at times and rampant piano chords, the perfect musical summary of all that is tedious about the excesses of online social media and those who overuse it has been created.
This charming little ditty and others were recorded “Live at the Hi-Fi” in Melbourne a year ago and are available for purchase from Kate’s website here.
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