Flaws in the Digital Facade

Song Review: Perfect World by Catch Your Breath feat. Ryan Oakes

CONTIBUTING AUTHOR Lyana

‘Perfect World’ explores how overconsumption of the digital age has inadvertently consumed us instead. The single calls out the comparison between carefully curated content disseminated to the masses and the reality of life. In a growing obsession with chasing the former, the latter has lost its meaning, as a result of keeping up appearances online.

Parading in pretense is what the world has come to, engaging in herd mentality with how increasingly accessible media is within the last two decades. The ‘Dial Tone’ band addresses the fear of losing authenticity and overall humanness as a consequence of being too out of touch with reality.

The musical layers formed by powerful bass and drums and addictive guitar riffs lay the foundation for vocals with lyrics articulating the resentment of this digital facade through irony - deeming this world we’ve built to be perfect. But just how perfect can it be as the chorus questions “Have we lost ourselves? Tell me how we learned to love this hell”. The bridge (performed by Ryan Oakes) - “I'd show em that I'll bleed for release and a seat with destiny”, highlights the strong desire to escape the daydream; a flawed creation when picked apart.

The release of ‘Perfect World’ has fans captivated with a new anthem urging for non-conformity to this ‘modern game’ and reclamation of bona fide experiences in the only life we’ve got.