Ada Shymore and The Boogie Men - The Information Highway
Ada Shymore and The Boogie Men have released a song addressing the internet, how great things were expected of it in the development stages, and what it evolved into. They make a valid commentary of the excessive ads, internet viruses, all kinds of schemes to make money at your expense. And somewhat the same history has befallen the two previous communication technologies; radio and television.
The way it works is that producers of a product pay for advertising to get the word out to the consumer to get them to buy a product. That fact made the advertisers or sponsors, in charge of what will be the content of what is broadcast. They're paying the bills, so they have the say-so. Not the best thing if you stop and think that they can cancel any kind of content they don't like, for any reason. Works the same for any form of media. One of the few places where that didn't apply (Oat least in theory) was public television and radio. That has changed. Advertising and sponsor control of programming has made its way into that as well,
With the internet, this system has been taken to extreme. Some advertisers bombard a person's email (what can be considered a non-public, personal thing) getting you to buy their product, and leaves the door wide open for scammers. So yeah, there's plenty to bitch about with the internet, but by now most of us think we can't get along without it, as cell phones has done to telephone communication. We now have the best (and worst) of both realms, as the cell phone and the internet have become combined in a pocket sized beast.
Enough of all that! Ada and The Boys make their point in this song, even as far to suggest turning the whole damn thing off and pick up a book! We were wondering where they were going after their first recording. Maybe this will be a band with many more surprises to come!
They said the world wide web
Would be the information highway
With so much data on it,
On every subject and byway
It kind of missed the mark
After starting out okay
The information highway now?…..
No Goddam way!
A wasteland of advertising,
All kinds of nasty porn
Influencers advising
From money to hearts forlorn
A word to the wise is in order
Ya can’t believe much of it!
Rumors, idle gossip, lies
Mostly a bunch of shit!
Take it all with a grain of salt
Don’t you click on it!
Or else you’ll be overloaded
With a slew of lyin’ shit!
It’s hard to read on the web
Without getting bombarded
By ads on top of ads and ads
Of all things real and sordid
Lurking everywhere
A virus to infect you
Spend time and money to cure it
By the time you’re all through
All kinds of people make money
Uploading videos of crap!
A lot of stuff pulled out their ass
To treat you like a sap!
Go ahead, give your email,
You don’t know what you’ve done.
Your inbox will be overloaded
With everything under the sun
You’ve won a prize at games you never played
You’re account has been frozen, that you never had
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