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Commodity 2023

from Everything Is Awesome by Unwoman

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I wrote this while working at a low-paying book business job (August 2004) and commuting across the Bay every day and being too tired to work on music most nights. This song teases acceptance of a "normal" lifestyle with middle-class aspirations of having enough disposable income to be worth marketing to. To be purely a consumer and give up on creating anything worthwhile. But I knew deep down that wouldn't do.

I got a better job making ringtones at the end of 2005, and then quit that job exactly 13 years ago, Feb 2 2010, to do music full-time. I'm so glad for all the experiences that brought me to this life full of music and autonomy.

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Despite all my protests
Its simplicity
Calls me to its breast
The comfort of normality
What I want is to be a commodity
From here it's just too easy

Oh to be typical
Just as selfish as
To be pandered to like the middle class

'Cause there's too many stars
Not enough sky
Why should I even try?

At the end of the day
My eyes dry and red
It's a simple balm
To soothe my troubled head
Media somewhat true
I enjoy it because I'm told to

Placated and satisfied
By mass entertainment
They grovel for me as I won't do for them again

Living vicariously
Through celebrity
That is how we can be happy

Oh to be typical
Just as selfish as
To be pandered to like the middle class

'Cause there's too many stars
Not enough sky
There's so much beauty, too few eyes

What I want is to be a commodity
Only then I will be free

Placated and satisfied
By mass entertainment
They grovel for me as I won't do for them again

'Cause there's too many stars
Not enough sky
Why should I even try?

What I want is to be a commodity
From here it's just so easy

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from Everything Is Awesome, released February 3, 2023
written by Erica G Mulkey

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Unwoman is a San Francisco-based cellist-singer-songwriter. Layered with skillful cello, rich vocals, and electronically arranged beats, her solo music is a futuristic homage to her classical training. Unwoman has been featured at steampunk, goth, and sci-fi-related events all over North America and has performed with Abney Park, Rasputina, Voltaire, Amanda Palmer, Stripmall Architecture... ... more

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