Music Junkie
When you need real horror movie music to remind you...
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Body for the pile— clipping.
Ignore everything you think you know about Daveed Diggs. He has something else to prove to us.
The track opens with static because that’s what we need to hear first. There’s no need to hear music here. We need to hear white noise. Daveed isn’t Johan Johnson, Rainbow’s brother on “Black-ish”. Daveed isn’t a polyamourous Frederick Douglas in The Good Lord Bird. Daveed is the emo Black kid who knew all the words to every hip hop song but also listened to Nine Inch Nails.
You may realize that he decides somewhere on the way to “and a broke nose might be done dripping” that the old rules are meant to be broken. You may not recognize that he may be creating a new theme song for starting a fight in the club that never wanted to be a part of that club.
Only those who are familiar know that line “mustard and mayonnaise” is homage to his hometown roots but when you hear “where there’s blood there’s feast and famine” you know he’s talking about something worldwide.
What is he trying to prove? That just because he has a pretty smile doesn’t mean he doesn’t have fangs. The feedback while he repeats the title of the track “body for the pile” is a reminder that everyone has a dark side and sometimes you need to let it speak.
This is a subtle track to walk to that job you hate to. This is the song that keeps you from acting out because he gives you just enough of a mental description that keeps you from acting out in real life as you look over a cubicle wall to see the mundane path to your paycheck.
This is the only way in modern polite society that emo kids that are now adults with bills to pay can remember that we are just another corporate body for the pile. You walk into the job that has been killing you slowly for longer than anticipated. Take a deep inhale opening the door to another day in hellish capitalism, rampant fraud and whatever that unread text message said. And just as he says “you should probably take your last breath right now” you exhale in a nostril sigh to remind yourself that if you can work toward a colder heart today it will be less gruesome tomorrow.