Cool kids Echosmith are out with a new album and the title track laments the artificial screen Apple’s iPhone has constructed between reality and “a pixelated version” of real life for a lonely generation. Echosmith is comprised of siblings Sydney, Noah, and Graham Sierota. Their new album, “Lonely Generation” is produced by dad Jeffery David, who is also the band’s manager.
No matter what situation we’re in, we’re constantly being consumed by our phones and having the hardest time being present. This video really captures that…
Lyrics:
Lonely Generation
We’re the lonely generation
A pixelated version of ourselves
Empty conversations
I’ve disconnected, now I’m by myself
Here we are
Left behind
Looking through a screen makes you feel alright
Another day
Another dime
Looking in the wrong place for something right
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Looking in the wrong place for something right
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Looking in the wrong place for something right
We’re the lonely generation
A pixelated version of ourselves
Empty conversations
I’ve disconnected, now I’m by myself
In the dark
With open eyes
Drinking from a broken glass, don’t realize
Can’t feel the pain
Can’t feel a thing
Wasting time and stuck inside a broken dream
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Wasting time and stuck inside a broken dream
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Wasting time and stuck inside a broken dream
We’re the lonely generation
A pixelated version of ourselves
Empty conversations
I’ve disconnected, now I’m by myself
Is this real or just a dream?
Are we living in the in-between?
Is this real or just a dream?
Are we living in the in-between?
We’re the lonely generation
A pixelated version of ourselves
Empty conversations
I’ve disconnected, now I’m by myself
We’re the lonely generation
A pixelated version of ourselves
Empty conversations
I’ve disconnected, now I’m by myselfWritten by: Jeffrey David
MacDailyNews Take: Are we living in the in-between?
When you’re in a no-smartphone (or a no-Internet) environment, it’s 2006 all over again and, yes, it is magnificent! — MacDailyNews, April 6, 2018
So, put down your iPhone once in a while (and, no, that doesn’t mean picking up your iPad or MacBook!) and stay off Facebook! — MacDailyNews, January 20, 2018
SEE ALSO:
Steve Jobs never wanted us to use our iPhones like this — January 28, 2019
The changes ushered by Apple’s iPhone have been as momentous as those of electricity, telegraph, radio or TV – June 28, 2017
Has Steve Jobs’ iPhone destroyed a generation? – August 3, 2017
Anyone else catch that the dad wrote the lyrics, not the kids?
The kids were too lazy.
I’m too pixelated to know how to respond.
OMG, now they’re victims of the technology? This egomaniacal generation is doomed. Wait until they get older and the selfies don’t look good anymore. Mass s*icide I predict…
Love technology…but it is indeed, a sad state of affairs. People together in a public space…but faces buried in their phones. I don’t have one. When I leave my desk…I’m untethered.
People are interested in things that old people can’t understand. It’s a time honored tradition! People’s heads are in books, or have headphones on, or, in other ways, not paying attention to the olds… HOW ELSE WILL I EVER GET ACROSS THE NOTION THAT THEY NEED TO GET OFF MY LAWN????!! I’MMMMMM STIIIIIIIIIL RELEVAAAANAANNNNNNNNNTTTT!