What Are You Smoking?

by NEWSKI

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about

Some might say our heads have been up our asses for some time: we compete for who has the greener lawn, better partner, better car, the more popular friends.

We hate perfectly-friendly people based on just one of their political views.

We judge our friends online and feel bad when they have success.

So how do we get our priorities back on track?

We can become fully aware of silly societal pressures that keep us on the hamster wheel. :)

Society tricks you into wanting things you don’t need. It’s that dopamine rush you get from buying a new coffee-maker on Amazon, or getting more likes on that post about your breakfast, or showing the world how many points your kid scored in the 7th grade semifinal.

Keeping score off the court is bad.

It’s not about how much we produce, it’s about the quality of our production.

It’s not about what you do online as much as what you do in real life.

The big question is...what do we really want?

In the meantime, we gotta ask ourselves, “what are we smoking?”

lyrics

I met an armchair doctor
Full recliner
Feet on an ottoman empire
giving advice just like everyone
I must assume he thinks I’m pretty dumb
or deaf or destitute
My loot is better spent than saved, OK?

My yard‘s greener, wife’s dreamier
Cookie cutter, I’m a quitter
Or a winner? I can’t tell
Definitely going to hell
My ego must be kept in check
Its about time I asked...

What are you on? What are you smoking?
How do you land on these conclusions?
Why can’t you see?
It’s a joke for a dream
What are you on?

Sat alone in a moldy basement
Listening to dad rock & pavement, adjacent
Post divorce, more golf course
Keeping score off the court is bad

Lose all the friends that you had
Yes yes you can make those dollars
But that won’t buy no self-awareness
Wish they sold it in a can
But there’s no no no no chance

I think myself is someone else
Mental health, Totally shot
The ozone layer fully rocked
Red Bull giving me the twitches
a good time to get religious

Hope is a raisin bakin' on the pavement
Priorities all out of wack, (Shaq attack)

What are you smoking?

credits

released October 1, 2020
Song & video credits
Shot in Door County, WI
Drums and bass by Spatola

Video director: Max Hauser
Cameras: Mark Dexter, Dan Gartzke, Marina Aguilera
Concept by Hauser/Jaffer/Newski

Studio engineering: Spatola
Audio Mastering: Justin Perkins

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NEWSKI Milwaukee, Wisconsin

FESTIVAL APPEARANCES: Rolling Stone Festival, Iceland Airwaves, Reeperbahn Germany, SXSW official

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Courtney Barnett, Pixies, Violent Femmes, Manchester Orchestra, New Pornographers, Chuck Ragan, Rocky Votolato, Ezra Furman, Better than Ezra ... more

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