Feelings

More activity from the musical industrial complex, where exciting newcomers Toxic Blandness, in an extraordinary performance, last night aired a new song on MTV’s Planet Mind Vacuum show, where they appeared as themselves. The song, which the audience found challenging but rewarding, is called Feelings Have Feelings Too. A few lyrics below:

Between me and you 

I feel like feelings have feelings too

I’m not sure what that means

But come inside me and my dreams 

And you might feel it too

We can heal the world with our feelings 

Heal the world with our feelings 

Let’s heal the world with our feelings . . . 

To be honest I felt a bit emotional writing that out. Just to add, that last line gets repeated in rising cries of emotional intensity for a couple of minutes, sometimes ecstatically hopeful, sometimes more catastrophically despairing. As the song ended with one final apocalyptic wail, all the Toxic Blandness band members collapsed to the floor where they lay lifeless before the shocked audience for about a minute before a digitally generated hologram of Volodymyr Zelensky and Barack Obama appeared floating above the stage and, gently beckoning to the stricken group, successfully managed to raise them from the dead. It was all very intense, even too intense for some of the audience who, in a cathartic release of emotions, had to rush to the bathroom to get sick.

“I used to be just a fan, but now I’m a believer,” proclaimed one precocious eleven year old girl who identifies as Benjamin Disraeli, the nineteenth century British politician.