SOCIAL MEDIA

Social Media, stylized as SOCIAL MEDIA, is MIA GLADSTONE’s seventeenth studio single. It was released in the autumn of 2022. The song features Trent the HOOLiGAN. It is the fourth track on LOOPY. 
== Background ==
I'm singing to social media as an entity and analyzing the things it does to me - the creators of social media want to keep us in the loop of constantly checking it despite its destructive nature. I love being able to connect with people online, and I take breaks from it to reconnect with myself.
Before the release of SOCIAL MEDIA, Gladstone had frequently expressed her displeasure with social media and phones in general. In her 2020 collaboration with ANTHAM, titled “I Don’t Mind,” Gladstone sings about how “life goes on without your phone, [to] turn it off and be alone.” In SOCIAL MEDIA, Gladstone sings how social media and its pressures have a negative effect on her.
==Lyrics==
Intro (Spoken), MIA GLADSTONE
Ugh, I am so addicted to social media
I take my shoes off to walk
I shake my snooze off to talk
I break the rules when I stalk online
Social media knocking at the door
Breaking my divine and opening the floor
Dive under, no phones
Verse 1, MIA GLADSTONE
Life gets better when you’re not there
Not there
Don’t creep through the door
I see you every morning then I go outside
In the natural light
You want me to stay but
I know I go crazy when I get too caught up on you
Chorus, MIA GLADSTONE
You tailor me
To say the least
Talkin’ to you
I’m doomed
Verse 2, MIA GLADSTONE
Fuck Instagram, fuck Twitter
Don’t tell me what to post, you’re bitter
I’m a human with emotions
Won’t you let me fly, fly, fly, fly
Go and find your high, high, high, high
Cook capital, eat dinner
Don’t let them infiltrate your center
You’re stellar, propeller
Can’t profit of the truth, won’t sell ‘er
Refrain, MIA GLADSTONE & Trent the HOOLiGAN
I’m off you
Done livin’ in a run through
I am bound to fly (yeah, okay, okay, yeah)
Verse 2, Trent the HOOLiGAN
Do you like me or you like the way my page look?
Amount of likes equate to value in this day and age
Apparently the parents of this generation we call Z
Is not the sperm and egg donors, kinda funny to see
And if we Z, then what come after that? It kinda sound like doomsday
Should probably put the phone down, pick up a bouquet
'Cause the ice caps melting and polar bears dying
If you take a lookie out your window, countries are fighting
And we ain't got the answers for it, people chasing money
They so hungry for the green, it make 'em green, they lookin funny
Mama, I wish I could come home and start to Benjamin Button
I don't wanna be a man, the world is scary and my tummy feeling weird
The doctor told me it's some shit they call anxiety
I think it stems from the way the world is always frying me
It's just a theory, though, I ain't got all my Ps and Qs together
When I draw it up and map it out, I'll let you know whatever
Outro, MIA GLADSTONE
I’m off you
Done livin’ in a run through
I am bound to fly
==Music Video==
*SOCIAL MEDIA (Official Music Video)
==Credits==
*MIA GLADSTONE - vocals, writing, producer
*Trent the HOOLiGAN - vocals (feature)
*LIFEOFTHOM - producer
*L10MixedIt - mixer