Don't Worry
Big Hug anxiety satire: schedule a breakdown at 2 pm, Rock God meditation guilt, Duolingo owl: don't worry, I'm gonna worry that I'm not living in the now.
Listen: Spotify·Apple Music
ISRC QZFZ72184872 (soundexchange)
Track two on Big Hug (October 2021), out earlier as a standalone single (March 26, 2021, 91X Local Break). Luke solo. Wellness-app satire as a pop hook, where the title command fails on contact: don’t worry, I’m gonna worry about it now. I’ll worry that I’m not living in the now. “Living in the now” becomes one more thing to fail at.
The detail is what dates it to 2021. Panic gets penciled in (how does 2 pm sound?), the phone scolds you (Rock God, you haven’t meditated in a week), and the angry Duolingo owl turns the language you’re learning into the language you plead in. The bridge stacks an impossible self-care list, every wellness podcast at once, down to an 80 hour week, but make time for some fun. Then the song names its own mechanism: like when I say don’t think of a cat, you think of a cat, which is ironic process theory in two lines. The outro lets the apps talk back in Japanese, meditate as a command and you want to live, right? as the darker punchline.
Same post-pandemic lane as I’m an Idiot and Scared to Reunite on the LP, lighter than Don’t Know Much on Little Hug but the same spiral.
Written, performed, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp.
Lyrics
I haven't chilled in a minute I gotta schedule in a breakdown Yeah I pencil in my panic How does 2 pm sound? My phone it notified me Saying Rock God, you haven't meditated in a week Duolingo Owl be getting angry And I'm begging for my life in Japanese Don't worry I'm gonna worry about it now I'll worry That I'm not living in the now I'm worried I'll never sleep yeah I'm ruined now Too worried That I'm not living in the now Don't worry I haven't felt in a minute I'm a robot going all out I got oil in my circuit Cuz pizza's all I eat now My phone it notified me Saying Rock God, you haven't meditated in a week Duolingo Owl be getting angry And I'm begging for my life in Japanese Don't worry I'm gonna worry about it now I'll worry That I am not living in the now I'm worried I'll never sleep yeah I'm ruined now Too worried That I'm not living in the now Don't worry Drink more water Time to lose some weight 10k steps then do a language tape Read more and get a little sun 80 hour week, but make time for some fun My phone it notified me Saying Rock God, you haven't meditated in a week Duolingo Owl be getting angry And I'm begging for my life in Japanese It's kinda of like when I say don't think of a cat You think of a cat I worry bout how much I worry and that Will give me panic attacks yeah yeah 瞑想しなさい 生きたい よね?