Well it's about how the internet is credited as launching "grass-roots" stars, who despite the opportunity to use the net to do absolutely anything (say something revolutionary or important), instead gain popularity through being exceptionally mundane and ridiculous. They're saying the internet has highlighted humanity's apparent obsession with mindless celebrity culture and the graceless never-ending race to be number one on whatever list is perceived to be important. Although there's a huge online community who do not fall into that category at all, the overwhelming lean is towards 'dumb shit' for want of a better term. Besides that, could the net be anymore corporate if it tried? Look around this page, how many bullshit adds do you see peaking out from behind the pop-ups? Google have created the widest reaching advertising space in the world... Don't Be Evil... (Don't say anything negative/appreciate the wonderful crap we offer you)... Just be corporate... (We know where you live)...
It's funny that this song came out around the time google got into a huge pile of shit for being busted gathering personal data on people against thier knowledge. Fuckers.
Well it's about how the internet is credited as launching "grass-roots" stars, who despite the opportunity to use the net to do absolutely anything (say something revolutionary or important), instead gain popularity through being exceptionally mundane and ridiculous. They're saying the internet has highlighted humanity's apparent obsession with mindless celebrity culture and the graceless never-ending race to be number one on whatever list is perceived to be important. Although there's a huge online community who do not fall into that category at all, the overwhelming lean is towards 'dumb shit' for want of a better term. Besides that, could the net be anymore corporate if it tried? Look around this page, how many bullshit adds do you see peaking out from behind the pop-ups? Google have created the widest reaching advertising space in the world... Don't Be Evil... (Don't say anything negative/appreciate the wonderful crap we offer you)... Just be corporate... (We know where you live)...
It's funny that this song came out around the time google got into a huge pile of shit for being busted gathering personal data on people against thier knowledge. Fuckers.