Société Anonyme Lyrics
Flat sky and cookie-cutter town
(Oh)
Sublimation
If you want it
Entertainment
Bright and shining
Chained to a wall inside a cave
And all we ever see is the shadows play
That’s no life
Sublimation
Corporate largesse
Entertainment
I don’t care for it
That’s no life
About
Jana Hunter abandons the Latin she has used for two songs from Escape From Evil in favor of the French, here. Société Anonyme not only means “anonymous corporation” but was an artistic organization founded in 1920 by Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp. It sponsored exhibitions, lectures, publications and the like, championing modern art.
On the song, Hunter is no doubt being a bit tongue-in-cheek with her choice of title, singing:
Entertainment
I don’t care for it
Q&A
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In an interview with NPR, Jana Hunter said:
Two books I read in the not-too-distant past (Infinite Jest and Within the Context of No-Context) both deal in a beautiful and devastating way with how television and entertainment have perverted human connection. I feel like art can be an anti-dote to that, but the best anti-dote is human connection, which again can be hard to find. The solution is my opinion is to bring human connection and the lifting of the veil to the people you love and also, if you have it in you, everyone you can reach.
