This song’s lyrics are taken from an interview with jazz keyboardist Herbie Hancock, taken from the 1984 documentary I Love Quincy. The quote talks about the use of synthesizers, and the song itself is very synth-heavy.
[Pitch-shifted Herbie Hancock sample]
Instruments were designed for people to use, you know, it’s just a tool, another tool, the way, the way an axe is a tool, an axe can be a tool to cut wood to build a house, or can be a tool to slaughter your neighbor
You, know, same thing, a synthesizer can be a tool to really hurt people’s ears or interfere with their lives
People blame machines very often for, for it's oh, the machine's fault, how can it be the machine's fault?
We have to plug it in!
The machine doesn’t do anything but sit there until we plug it in, it doesn't plug itself in
It doesn’t program itself
...Yet
Glamorous Damage was written by Jay Watson.
Glamorous Damage was produced by Jay Watson.
Gum released Glamorous Damage on Tue Dec 01 2015.