My first exposure to this song was just the pure audio, and it was a fun punk jam with a big chorus that I’d sing along too if only I knew the words. Good shit indeed. Then I watched the video with English subtitles, and I was even more taken with the song. Visually it looks like a kid’s TV show like Yo Gabba Gabba, but content wise, despite it’s humorous composition, it is actually sort of dark as the four actors in the video eventually rebel against the director and put him in his own box—ostensibly forever.

Lyrically this song hits home for me, and I’m sure for many others who feel like we have to go to work each day in our cars to produce for a boss to earn enough money to come back to a small home where we can fall asleep watching TV just to get up and do it all over again. It reminds me of a song from my old band, The Overprivileged, called “Whoever told me I could be whatever I want to be when I grow up lied” and not just because both songs used the term automaton.

I am a little curious about work life in Belgium especially since I believe the whole country has gone to the 4-day work week, I had sort of assumed that they didn’t prescribe to the capitalist guilt that one had to be productive at all times to be doing anything of value that is so pervasive in America. I guess going to a job without meaning just to eek out a living is universal.

Maybe its the boxes, but part of the song reminds me immediately of “Little Boxes” by Mavina Reynolds made newly popular a decade or so ago by the television show Weeds.

Would totally love to see this band live, maybe they can play The Fest next year and hit Orlando for Foreign Dissent too?

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