San Francisco, for all its outward beauty and breathtaking views, is getting ugly on the inside. Field Medic capture the feeling of becoming alienated from your own neighborhood mournfully in his new single "fuck these foolz that are making valencia street unchill." Clearly, the singer-songwriter holds no patience for the "unchill" members of society.
The song is practically Field Medic's "Masters of War," a blistering social critique aimed at tech titans rather than generals, delivering scathing attacks on the Silicone elite and bitter laments for the disappearing poor. And when he instigates class warfare by tipping his hat to those who smash the windows of lavish new condos off 22nd Street, it's as shocking and necessary a statement as when Dylan hopes that the perpetrators of the Vietnam War die and rot in their graves.
Blunt, visceral, and painfully close to home for many inhabitants of the city, the single is a poetic expression of solidarity, a welcome to all those who are struggling to scrap together next month's rent and wondering when the dream of San Francisco will finally come to an end. You can download it for free here.
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Said the white man and original gentrifier.
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Valencia Street Merchant’s Association releases new single – “fuck these derelicts who are barfing on the sidewalk”
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Are you serious with this fucking horseshit? This asswipe is advocating violence, and you’re cool with that, eh? Class warfare is A-OK with the Bay Bridged I guess (provided you’re in the right class). The song sucks, the band sucks, the message sucks, and you suck for covering it. Get fucked.
P.S.— I don’t work in tech, and I’ve lived here for more than ten years, unlike most of the people who are lamenting the loss of how things “used to be.” Complaining about the same issue without doing one actionable thing to prevent it is the new activism.
^^^^Found one of the fools making Valencia St. unchill. Hey, dude, first off: sorry a good song with a meaningful message gets your panties in a knot. Second, bullshit. I can smell the new tech money all over you, but nice try preemptively denying it. Third, it is possible to sing songs about bullshit you hate and participating in solutions to the problems you’re railing against. These two things aren’t mutually exclusive, you giant baby.
Can’t wait to smash your condo’s windows.
This battle has been going on for a long time. The Deep Throats were a Mission queer/feminist punk band during the first dot.com in the late 90s/early aughts. they had a song called Invasion of the Bodysnatchers:
everything changed back in ’99
they came from above and sucked on our minds
aliens got rich
and sick leather skin
the purification had to begin
https://deepthroats.bandcamp.com/track/invasion-of-the-bodysnatchers
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