The future arrived early.
The warranty has since expired.
Neon Autopsy cuts into the polished optimism of the eighties and examines what was underneath. Shopping malls, MTV, video stores, advertising, credit and manufactured rebellion offered a future of endless choice while quietly teaching an entire culture how to consume itself. The decade eventually ended. Many of its promises simply changed packaging.
Attention shoppers
The future is now operational
Please remain calm while the century recalibrates
Shopping mall glowing like a nuclear sunrise
Orange Julius vapor and artificial fries
Teenagers orbit the arcade machines
Learning self-worth from fluorescent screens
Every storefront screaming personality
Mass-produced rebellion in multiple sizes
Corporate mannequins with cocaine smiles
Posing for the end of western civilization
Credit card chrome reflects dead eyes
MTV bleeding into twenty-four-hour lies
Security guards drifting through fake palm trees
Like priests in the church of consumer disease
The fountains smell faintly metallic tonight
Somebody spray-painted love is a product outside
Buy now
Act now
Upgrade your loneliness
Limited time only
Neon Autopsy
Cut the decade open wide
Neon Autopsy
See the circuitry inside
Plastic dreams and shopping scars
Satellite gods and rental cars
Everybody dancing while the ceiling caved
Smiling like the future could still be saved
Video rental aisles like sacred tombs
Action movie prophets predicting doom
Kids eating microwave popcorn dinners
Watching game shows crown temporary winners
Fitness instructors on cathode-ray tape
Teaching aerobic routines for escaping fate
Every politician looked chemically preserved
Every advertisement screamed you deserve more
Payphones ringing with nobody there
Static electricity thick in the air
Synthesizers buzzing like mosquito swarms
Wall Street feeding on synthetic storms
The entire planet wrapped in mirrored glass
Disco smoke drifting through the upper class
Somewhere behind the static
Somebody realized the future felt cheap
But the music kept playing anyway
More More More More
Stay Beautiful
Stay Productive
Stay Entertained
Dance through the collapse
Neon Autopsy
Cut the decade open wide
Neon Autopsy
See the circuitry inside
Plastic dreams and shopping scars
Satellite gods and rental cars
Everybody dancing while the ceiling caved
Smiling like the future could still be saved
Neon Autopsy
Every channel sold a different truth
Neon Autopsy
Everybody worshipped plastic youth
Laser lights and credit schemes
Synthetic love and nicotine dreams
Everybody laughing while the markets burned
Nobody noticed when the future turned
Attention shoppers
The eighties are now closed
Please collect your belongings
And your manufactured memories