EMA, aka Erika Anderson, released her album ‘The Future’s Void’ earlier this year, and it immediately found critical and personal favour. Live, too, she is a compelling performer. The whole album has an over-riding theme of the march of technology, and its relationship and incursion into modern life. What, a concept album, in this day and age? And yet it works. Anderson herself is a little guarded about just how much the internet affected her, saying this, via a blog entry, about currently released track ‘3Jane’ – “No one was really ever that mean to me on the internet. I never had that “thing” that happens when you wake up one morning and somehow your life is ruined because a mortifying picture goes viral or a “funny” tweet becomes horribly misread… But it did that to somebody. And now we all have this stupid crippling fear that someday it will happen to us. And the likelihood increases as you move from relative obscurity to becoming more broadly visible on the internet. There are more cameras on you, more chances to be quoted saying something stupid, and more people out there who relish seeing successful people disgraced and dethroned.” Only today, my daughter and I were goggling that you can now cheaply buy your own drone in Currys, hmmmm.
The track is gorgeous in its own right, whatever your thoughts on the digital cyber web, or whatever we choose to call it.
