There's another concert that she describes the inspiration for the song. Paraphrasing here but she said she was living with this couple, and one of her roommates came in to tell her what they were working on. She said it was a database that has a fair bit of personal information for people in the list. For kicks, this roommate decided to look up her husband, and found him as well as a ton of data that she didn't think was public. She looked herself up, and same thing.
It was the reaction this roommate had. It was a mix of being a bit creeped out by seeing it, and a strange sense of excitement that data could be so powerful and so easily controlled. Almost like a "how awesome technology is".
Vienna said then that it seemed to turn into a love song as if it was written by a database.
She also said the roommate worked for a company called Acxiom
There's another concert that she describes the inspiration for the song. Paraphrasing here but she said she was living with this couple, and one of her roommates came in to tell her what they were working on. She said it was a database that has a fair bit of personal information for people in the list. For kicks, this roommate decided to look up her husband, and found him as well as a ton of data that she didn't think was public. She looked herself up, and same thing.
It was the reaction this roommate had. It was a mix of being a bit creeped out by seeing it, and a strange sense of excitement that data could be so powerful and so easily controlled. Almost like a "how awesome technology is".
Vienna said then that it seemed to turn into a love song as if it was written by a database.
She also said the roommate worked for a company called Acxiom