Chosen by Monk
The Belfast post-hardcore punk rockers enrich our aural experience with this forked tongue attack on the rise in misguided hate filled, vacuous influencer culture with this second taste of their upcoming new EP, due for release at the start of June:
Telling us a bit more about the song and its background, the trio told me:
‘Make You Rich’ was the song that broke the damn for the band, opening the flood gates for new songs and helped set the direction for a new batch of material.
The lyrical inspiration for the song comes from an ill-advised foray into the world of TikTok and the uneasy myriad of anti-feminist, racist and misogynistic content that was being presented as a default on the platform. Written as a satire on the influencer culture being peddled to the masses, Chris wrote from their viewpoint, particularly basing it around one local influencer. Say ‘I’m a winner’ three times into a mirror and he’ll appear…