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Polite Unthreatening Pop Songs

from Polite Unthreatening Pop Songs by Dubrow

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I went down to the careers councillor, asked them how to write a better song. And this my fiends is what they said..

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Polite unthreatening pop songs
Ah-ooh yeah
Polite unthreatening pop songs
Ah-ooh yeah
I went down to the careers councillor,
Asked them how to write a better song
But they just took one look at me,
said I’d been doing life and songs all wrong
So cut your existentialist bullshit
And cut your Sartre and Camus
Your black beret cannot pay your way
Pay the bills or help you buy your food

We need polite unthreatening pop songs
To sell our products around the world
We don’t need no clever music
On the streamers or our radio
Polite unthreatening pop songs
More pleasant jingles on the air
Happy inoffensive background hum
or the people just won’t care

So don’t contextualise or intellectualise,
Or overthink your words
When you try too many syllables
Only white noise can be heard
And no science and no politics
You cannot dance to climate change
We just want comforting melodies
That always sound the same

We need polite unthreatening pop songs
To sell our products around the world
We don’t need no clever music
On our streamers or our radio
Polite unthreatening pop songs
More pleasant jingles on the air
Happy inoffensive background hum
or the people just won’t care
Polite unthreatening pop songs
That’s all we want to hear
We don’t want your thinking music around here


Polite unthreatening pop songs
Ah-ooh yeah
Polite unthreatening pop songs
Ah-ooh yeah
Polite unthreatening pop songs
Ah-ooh yeah
Polite unthreatening pop songs
Ah-ooh yeah
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from Polite Unthreatening Pop Songs, released November 5, 2020
Written, recorded and produced by Dubrow at Reservoir, Melbourne, during the creative explosion better known as the (necessary) Melbourne COVID lockdown of 2020.

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Dubrow Reservoir, Australia

I was the singer / songwriter with iNsuRge, Soulscraper, & Blackbreaks, and this is my solo project: Dubrow.

I like layering beats, synths, noise and distortion, with some real instruments

The music is also political, because all good music is. We either sing for the revolution, or sing for all the things to stay the same ... more

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