Results for “desensitization”

Songs

Soft Cell

A synth-pop travelogue through a red-light district, told with a flat, almost bored affect that turns sleaze into atmosphere…

urban anonymity commodified sex voyeurism

Lorde

Lorde builds a woozy, disaster-numbed daydream where global catastrophe on television is background noise to teenage escapism.…

escapism media desensitization adolescent detachment

Pearl Jam

A short, chant-driven track that treats the exclamation "Olé" as a stand-in for helpless resignation in the face of overwhelming…

information overload helplessness desensitization to violence

Talib Kweli

Talib Kweli uses the title's central paradox—beauty found in filth—as a lens for describing street life shaped by drugs,…

urban poverty moral complexity of survival authenticity vs. commercial rap

Danny Brown

A first-person account of coming up as a young drug dealer in Detroit, told with flat, almost bored affect that treats violence,…

cycles of poverty and incarceration desensitization to violence youth and false maturity