Some songs start as satire. Vision started that way. It didn’t stay there.
I wrote it around 2000 watching the early days of reality television and feeling something shift in the culture. Content that wasn’t built to be savored. It was built to be consumed and discarded before the rot set in. Channels multiplying overnight, all of them desperate to fill airtime, all of them selling the same thing dressed up differently. Antagonism packaged as entertainment.
Two lines summed it up then and they sum it up now. Programming has nothing to say. Wrapped up in plastic.
That was about television. In 2026 it’s about everything.
The algorithm replaced the network executive but the job description didn’t change. Fill the feed. Trigger a reaction. Sell the advertising. The content got shorter, faster, more disposable. Social media became the grandchild of everything Vision was already calling out. The manipulation didn’t disappear. It just got a different delivery system and fit in your pocket.
If you’ve ever caught yourself thirty minutes deep into content you didn’t choose and couldn’t quite explain why you kept watching, Vision already knew that feeling was coming.
The song opens with a jungle like groove and biting guitars that don’t ask permission. It hits at full force and stays there. This isn’t a slow burn. It’s immediate and relentless in exactly the way the thing it’s describing is immediate and relentless. In the Dolby Atmos version the ear candy details that were always buried in the mix finally come forward. Little sonic moments surrounding you that reward the listener paying close attention. Which is exactly what the song is asking you to do.
Pay attention.
Not to the feed. Not to the algorithm. To what’s actually real underneath all of it.
Vision isn’t preachy and it isn’t political. It’s observational. A raised eyebrow set to music. The kind of song for someone who already senses something is off but hasn’t quite put words to it yet. Someone who wants quality over quantity. Someone tired of having a thousand options and feeling emptier for it.
Being your own gatekeeper is harder than it sounds. Vision at least lets you know you’re not the only one who noticed.
This is week five of E.nergy A.udio R.evolution. The satire aged into documentation. Press play and hear the difference.
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