The new single by Loose Puppet is a lyrical commentary on the utter fakeness of social media. The track and the accompanying music video depicts the tale of a young girl obbessed with social media and judging her self worth based on likes while also being beaten down by the ugly theif of joy; comparison.

The track seeks to peel back the layers of fakery to reveal the truth of how an obsession with social media can control a person. The song is a juxtaposition – it has a chilled summery vibe to it in terms of melody, but dig a little deeper and it becomes clear that the idea of a perfect “summer day” can often be not what it first may seem from a quick snapshot.

The music video features a girl who wakes up and immediately goes for her phone to post to socials, she posts pictures of her drinking morning coffee, only to pour it down the sink, of her “morning workout” only to sit down and smoke, of a “few drinks in the sunshine” with friends while sitting alone and then being eaten up by the fear of failure from doom scrolling and seeing others posts, perceivably doing better than her, so she hits the bottle of vodka to it then leading onto jeopordising runing her own personal real life relationship by ignoring her partner to instead post fake pictures of her “perfect life”.

In essence the track is a poke in the eye at the complete staging of it all while also serving as a warning to not allow yourself to become too consumed with the want to impress complete strangers on the internet.

The band have said of the track:-

“The song, ‘summer days’ represents how someone might show their life to others online. When in actual fact a storm is taking place” says lead singer George Hammond.

It’s a clever track using bright and breezy harmonic melodies over a scathing verbal and visionary warning of the dangers of getting too caught up in the fake social media life.

The lyrics when exposed reveal in the opening verse “Rain’s written all over the blue sky you show to me” which points to the personal mindset that isn’t caught by a photo and sets the tone for the rest of the track in that things aren’t always as they seem.

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