KESTREL’S FOOLRY

Specifically the songs All Eyes on Me and Welcome to the Internet.

I was seen, I was called out, and I was shot in the head four times.

From All Eyes on Me, the lines "You say the ocean's rising, like I give a shit, you say the world's ending, honey it already did." just broke me. I think something about the feeling of just letting go of the ball of glass and apprehension about the climate, the economy, the future, as a young person, and just watching it shatter into a million pieces is so relieving. Like thank god, and someone actually said it out loud. Listening to it makes me cry from just. Relieving that stress I think. Some notes for the therapist there.

With Welcome to the Internet it's that devastating relatability again. Anything and everything, all of the time. Mommy let you use her ipad. I didn't really have that at all until I was like ten, my parents had flip phones and film cameras and a clunky family computer for most of when I was little. But I can still feel the song. Deeply. I scroll on tiktok all the time, and that's exactly what it feels like. And then when he starts laughing, after singing to us, gen z, there's that visceral oh.

I don't even know how to express it. but the things that those songs express are exactly how I feel.