When I’m angry, I laugh. Then, I write about it. That’s what happened when I wrote PDA. Over quarantine, I was home sitting in my childhood bedroom, and I felt trapped. The world felt so small looking through my phone at it all in front of me. All I could see were numbers on my screen, and I was sca...
It’s the poisonous and despicable authority of the mainstream
Oh it’ll kill me
When did life start?
I think I missed that part
Doesn’t feel like I’ve been living at all
Since the fall
We all want our pictures on the wall
Let me warn you before they cut me off
It’s a devilish little game
We all gotta play
You don’t got a say
Hats off to the mainstream
It’s monopoly in your Sunday best
& I know we’re quite stressed
Lay your mind to rest
It’s the PDA! Of the Mainstream (mainstream)
Social cabaret!
Not my thing (my thing)
Pleasе just let me go!
I don’t want to show
The PDA
Hmm
What arе we worth?
Just pennies and clicks
And that’s according to them
Oh I know it’s right sick
Don’t try just hush and take your pick
These babies don’t believe in destiny
It’s all arbitrary algorithms left to the fates
Technology has killed the brave!
Blind obsession
That all shiny vices know
Misdirections
And showgirls in tuxedos
It’s the PDA! Of the Mainstream (mainstream)
Social cabaret! Not my thing
(my thing)
Please just let me go!
Oh I don’t want to show!
The PDA
Ugh
Welcome to the show
Wanna be somebody
Welcome to the show
Better sell your soul
Welcome to the show
Wanna be anybody
Red unbeating hearts
Oh they’re all we know
Oh so let me tell you
It’s the poisonous and despicable authority of the
Mainstream
It’s the PDA! Of the Mainstream (mainstream)
Social cabaret!
Not my thing (my thing)
Please just let me go! Oh I don’t want to show!
The PDA
Ugh!
PDA of the Mainstream was written by Caroline Romano.
Caroline Romano released PDA of the Mainstream on Mon Jun 21 2021.
Sonically, I was very inspired by My Chemical Romance when writing PDA. The first song off their album “The Black Parade” is called “The End”, and I’m obsessed with it. I love how MCR manages to write really dark and serious songs but still keep it lighthearted. They throw sarcasm and attitude aroun...
I wrote the majority of PDA of the Mainstream in under an hour. It was one of those songs that just pours out of you and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. All I had with me was my acoustic guitar, so I just tried to fit the mouthful of lyrics I’d written to something that I thought would transl...