click here, fix you

[a song]

i used to write songs, but i haven’t in years. until this one poured out last week and took me by surprise. i guess it makes sense, with Black Friday and Christmas and Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy swirling around lately.

then there’s my average screen time of 4+ hours per day & the overconsumption-core content that comes with such things. and having grown up in the 90’s/early 2000s with Cosmopolitan magazine, Kate Moss.. little girls are sold conventional beauty standards for profit from the moment they learn to read and comprehend language.

so many things inspired this song.. but rather than explain it further, how about i just show you? :)

it’s called click here, fix you <3

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lyrics:

click here to find out
how to dress for your skin tone
here’s why you need a BBL
oh god you’re wearing last year’s clothes

click here to buy
your next glow up, an antidote
to the thing that we designed
and sold you just last spring
but that one’s old

click here to fix your lips
your eyebrows, nose and thighs
gather round and drink our Koolaid
’til you rot from the inside

click to see how we poisoned
the rivers, oops wrong link
here’s why your hair is falling out
here’s a ten step skincare routine

tap to play with us, a game with us
one we never lose
click here to fix you

click here to be beautiful
click to get the guy
buy our snail serum
we promise hot girls never cry

sign on the dotted line, oh yeah
we take apple pay
hop on this trend or get left behind
click before you change your mind

click here, we’ll make you the girl
that everybody wants
to either be, or have sex with
until the next one comes along

until the thing you bought last paycheque
is outdated, until it’s old
we’ll be here waiting
to tell you that you’re ugly
if you don’t

tap to play with us, a game with us
one we never lose
click here to fix you

click here, fix you
click here, fix you

click here
to fix you

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by Philip Garner, from the October 1981 issue of Domus magazine

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