Jody Whitesides

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The E.nergy A.udio R.evolution Songs Written for Right Now — Back in 2000

Some songs and albums find their moment twice. E.nergy A.udio R.evolution Sped Up is one of them. I released these songs in 2000. They lived, they breathed, they meant something then. But the world they were written for? That world is coming back around right now.

E.nergy A.udio R.evolution is ten songs. Ten weeks of singles, one per week, the tenth completing the album. One statement built piece by piece, landing in full last week. If you’ve been here for the ride, you know what this collection is. If you’re just finding it, you picked a good time.

This is week eleven. And it comes back faster.

The Sped Up version exists because urgency is sometimes the message. We live in a world that moves whether you’re ready or not, and sometimes a song needs to match that pace. Cut tighter, hit harder, less room to breathe. That’s not a compromise. That’s a different kind of honest.

Three songs on the album keep stopping me cold.

Time Machine. The need to go back, change one thing, rewrite one moment. That feeling hasn’t aged a day. If anything it’s more crowded than ever with people who carry it.

Publicity. Written when the noise was already getting loud. Released now when it’s deafening. The song knew.

Tortured Solitaire. Written originally about the paparazzi culture that contributed to Princess Diana’s death. Not as a lament. As a challenge. A call to turn the tables on the people doing the destroying. Twenty-five plus years later, the paparazzi have been replaced by anyone with a phone and a grudge. The impulse to tear someone apart publicly hasn’t changed, it’s just more accessible now. If you’ve ever wanted to fight back against that, or watched someone you care about get buried by it, this song is handing you something to stand on.

If you want the original album remixed & remastered the way it was meant to be heard it’s available now. It’s also now available in Dolby Atmos. That’s not a technical footnote. Heard correctly, it’s a different physical experience.

E.nergy A.udio R.evolution wasn’t songs waiting to be discovered. They were songs waiting to be heard by the right people at the right time. If you’ve ever felt like the world moved on without checking if you were ready, this record already has something to say to you.

The studio quality WAV and MP3 bundle is in the store if you want to own it properly. If the music moves you enough to want to play it, the guitar and bass transcriptions are there too, including a full bundled book at a better price than buying them individually. And if you want to put something on your wall or your back, that’s there as well.

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2026-03-10
Vision Rock Song About Media Manipulation on E.nergy A.udio R.evolution

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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2026-01-27
Written in 2000. More Relevant in 2026. This is Publicity.

Some songs age well. Publicity aged like a warning.

I wrote this song around 2000 with a specific character in mind. Someone who wanted fame so badly they didn’t care how they got it. Good press, bad press, fake press, whatever kept their name in the conversation. I wasn’t writing about myself. I was writing about something I was watching happen around me and didn’t want any part of.

That was twenty six years ago. Today that character isn’t just everywhere. That character is winning.

We live in a world where attention is the currency and outrage is the fastest way to earn it. Where the line between reality and performance has essentially disappeared. Where one moment, real or manufactured, can define you forever. Musicians chasing fame over music. Content creators manufacturing personas bigger than their actual substance. Politicians weaponizing lies simply to stay in the conversation. Pull back the curtain on any of it and there’s nothing behind it. Just noise engineered to keep you looking.

Social media promised connection and delivered isolation instead. More people online than ever before. More people feeling unseen and unheard than ever before.

Publicity doesn’t rage against that machine. It just holds a mirror up to it and asks a simple question. Is this really what we’re doing?

The song opens with a long cinematic intro. There’s space in it, room to breathe, the kind of opening that was built for radio and for the moment you turn the volume up in your car and just let it hit. By the time the groove locks in you’re already inside it. Head nodding, fists ready. That’s not an accident. That’s the song setting up everything it’s about to say.

And in the Dolby Atmos version those small details that were always there, the little musical moments that shift the meaning of a lyric, they’re finally audible the way they were always meant to be. The depth was always in the song. Now you can actually hear it surrounding you.

If you’ve ever felt exhausted by the noise. If you’ve ever watched someone get famous for saying nothing true and thought this isn’t right. If you’ve ever wanted to be known for something real rather than something loud, Publicity already knows how you feel.

It opens E.nergy A.udio R.evolution for a reason. It sets the tone for everything that follows. Twelve weeks of music written for a world that has finally caught up to it.

This is week one. There’s a lot more coming.

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2025-12-30

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