Artificial Death in the West

about this song

Ride analyzes the potential of the internet to take over our daily lives and expose us to a slow, artificial desensitization that can lead to the death of our true selves. The internet can be both an escape and distraction from our fears in our ‘“real” lives. Since humanity created the internet, it is an extension of us. We make it what it is because it is an enhancement of reality. Considering the song’s overt sexual imagery and implications

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# Why "Artificial Death in the West" Matters This track commands attention for how it weaponizes intimacy against abstraction. Rather than treating sexual imagery as mere provocation, the song uses explicit physicality as a counterargument to digital erosion—a desperate reassertion of bodily presence against the internet's flattening effects. The composition itself mirrors this tension, layering visceral sound design with fragmented production that feels simultaneously human and algorithmic. What emerges is a meditation on authenticity in an age of endless simulation: can genuine sensation survive when mediated through screens? By colliding raw physicality with technological anxiety, the track interrogates whether our bodies remain our own when our consciousness colonizes the

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