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.
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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

## Credits

* MIA GLADSTONE - vocals, writing, producer
* Trent the HOOLiGAN - vocals (feature)
* LIFEOFTHOM - producer
* L10MixedIt - mixer