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Cake day: August 26th, 2023
  • Reef@lemmy.catoCanada@lemmy.ca•[closed] Lemmyvision 3: Vote for Canada's submission to the contest
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    1 month ago

    I nominated a few songs, but I want to promote Citizen4 by Cenzina in particular. The topic of the song fits this contest better than my other nominations, and it’s a fun song even without the deeper meaning.

    https://www.altrecess.com/post/cenzina-challenges-the-age-of-surveillance-with-citizen4

    It’s Cenzina at her sharpest, digging into themes of surveillance, digital tracking, and the unsettling rise of technocracy.

    Quoting Snowden’s famous line about privacy, the song plants itself firmly in the conversation about rights and autonomy. In her own words, Cenzina says: “My hope would be that Citizen4 reminds people to question the true cost of losing the rights to our privacy and personal data as surveillance technologies rapidly advance and merge.”

    The song’s hook drives that unease home, with lines like: “One face composed of many faces, one place consumed by many places, sleeves are filled with aces, hearts that come with laces, come on take a spoon-ful, tell me can you taste this?” It’s both poetic and piercing, a direct challenge to how numb we’ve become to the systems shaping our lives.

    Yet for all its weight, Citizen4 doesn’t wallow. There’s hope in the melodies and a reminder that resistance doesn’t only mean protest signs—it can also mean returning to the things that make us human: community, art, nature, connection. The record feels alive, not just in its sound but in its spirit, urging listeners to take back a sense of agency and awareness.

    Cenzina, who proudly represents artists living with chronic illness and invisible disabilities, pours realness into her work in a way that feels impossible to fake. Citizen4 isn’t just another alt-rock track—it’s a wake-up call wrapped in gorgeous production, a reminder that even in times of uncertainty, music can be both mirror and medicine.

  • Reef@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Andor was such a clever show
    12·
    5 months ago

    While watching this scene, I was thinking about if the choking was really necessary or if they could have gotten the emotional turmoil / betrayal across some other way. It didn’t fit that well with how they had interacted with each other up until that point

    But later on in the episode, it looks like she again feels choked, but this time by the collar of her uniform. So if the intent was to set up that symbolism, I guess there is a reason for the scene in the post