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UTOPIA NOW!

by Rosie Tucker

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  • Listening Party

     
    Why would you listen on your own time when you could do it on our schedule?

    Pour some wine, light some candles, listen to UTOPIA NOW!, hop in the chat, ask all your little questions, get some little answers. How did you write this song? What guitar pedals did you use? Am I the asshole? Yes!

     

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    you know it, you love it, you can't play it in your car or on a run, IT'S A VINYL RECORD!

    rosie tucker's 4th LP on colored vinyl, with all the lyrics and surface noise you could possibly hope for

    Includes unlimited streaming of UTOPIA NOW! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    a format my 2012 honda civic and i can get behind

    rip rosie tucker's 4th LP onto your laptop and never worry about any corporation's cloud failing you

    Includes unlimited streaming of UTOPIA NOW! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    one listener's ugly duckling is another listener's manic pixie accessory

    rosie tucker's 4th LP on a piece of plastic that 100% is going to end up in a landfill forever

    Includes unlimited streaming of UTOPIA NOW! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • T-Shirt/Shirt

    do you want "nothing but unending bliss" for your enemies? me neither!

    white tee with lyrics from rosie tucker's "unending bliss", the first single off of their 4th LP UTOPIA NOW!

    los angeles apparel tee screen printed by sunday print co in los angeles

    from LA apparel --

    Made of 100% USA cotton, this textile is beefy, durable, and absorbent, and is virtually shrink free as a result of garment dyeing. The garment is washed with natural enzymes, resulting in a broken-in feel, just like a T-shirt that was washed or worn for a decade or two. Its special features include its heavy and sturdy feel and combined with a more generous fit (about 1 wider on the flat then a contemporary T-shirt) and higher neck line. (hell yeah) ... more
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  • Hat

    a hat to rival your favorite skate brand cap from boarders feat. a cartoon rosie sticking a fork into an outlet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    made of dark green soft, brushed cotton twill fabric with a fabric strap with brass metal clasp
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1.
Lightbulb 02:46
The lightbulb is updating And I sit in the dark Picking at my nose With the invisible hand How many songwriters Does it take to screw a tune? To get the record done on time? To maximize demand? While Palantir sells us to LAPD I get jealous when someone I know’s on TV It’s a slight of machine To distract and deceive see how Everyone’s clapping for free The lightbulb is updating We both look through my phone You know lightbulbs only die To maximize demand If you’re burning out you better keep that shit in mind cause if you’re Writing the record You must want it heard And return on investment Is all but assured Success is a steal Where the cost is obscured If you’re doing it right Then it won’t even hurt If I’m doing it right Then I won’t feel a thing I’m a brain in a jar I’m a face on a screen Liberated, good lookin, and good at relating Now everyone’s clapping for me!
2.
I hope no one had to piss in a bottle at work to get me the thing I ordered on the internet But I am no responsible party I’m just a middle sized fish In a pile of plastic Wider than Texas A pile of plastic You wonder why I’m a Poor sport Squeezing my pores in the bathroom I’m not ready yet To go back to the people Fall short Every chance that I give You say speak for yourself I say you don’t listen, you want Everything, everything, everything all at once I know every time you sip from a bottle of piss and remember me the memory degrades But I need no responsible parting You can think me away In your mind made of plastic Your mind made of plastic In your mind made of plastic You wonder why I’m a Poor sport Squeezing my pores in the bathroom I’m not ready yet To go back to pretending Falls short Every chance that I get You say speak for yourself I say maybe I am, maybe I want Everything, everything, everything all at once Take the trash out, fill the trash up, pull the plastic from the food stuff
3.
They’re gonna turn the moon into a sweatshop None of these fuckers ever even heard of Gil Scott Heron more like albatross And if I turn my life into a treadmill Wrap me in a spreadsheet Lay me in a landfill With all the shit that I cast off Something is wrong I feel it Where there’s smoke there’s a car on it’s back There’s a gap in the side of the overpass You can call to the line but the signal’s jammed I did what I could And I’m stuck how I am And I’m stuck how I am And I did what I could I wanna turn the argument around Turn my face toward the sun & Talk on common ground because We don’t punch sideways, don’t punch down where there’s smoke there’s a good reason to spit if it’s all that you got then it’s what you gotta give if you’re holding for hope then it’s time for you to learn that where there’s pain it means you still got nerve! & if the waking world turns into nightmare baby I can hack it, if you’re sticking here cause what you give to me no one can sell what you give to me no one can frack what you give to me cannot owe bail what you give to me no app can track What you give to me I give right back What you give to me I give right back What you give to me I give right back What you give to me I give right back I love you now and I always will
4.
Paperclip maximizer Single minded if you mind at all A paragon of puritanical panoptical persistence Everybody envies your resolve Paperclip maximizer Mining for a better way No ontological contention Tends your content generation Every sorrow makes a link in the chain And baby when you come to You’ll find that everything you love has Been consumed None the wiser Scrying glass visualizer If I could miss you then I would betray The double meaning of refrain The envy spreading like a stain My divination given to dismay And baby when you come to You’ll find that everything you love has been consumed You’re the winner, understood Doing well by doing good Paperclip maximizer And the shareholders meet gruesome ends But the cosmos expands So the market survives All the better to bear all your office supplies And the space they require was once occupied By the sun On you hair And the curve Of your thighs Horizon of sighs Destroyer of worlds
5.
Maylene 03:15
My neighbor Maylene loves the cops Loves to yell at her grown son If I think Maylene’s in the wrong I’m biased cause I also have a mom The christmas lights stay up all year Agleam in stale significance Who taught Maylene to love severe, To give and give at such expense?
6.
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t care But the biggest billboard in times square can’t Fix your dad, clear the air, Bring you back to me And that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try Have a staring contest with the evil eye I hear the other side has catering And the metadata proves you’re the real thing I could never figure you out If it can’t be counted, does it count? When you’re up you’re up all night and When you’re down you're DOWN! And when you’re only half way up You’re no fun to be around The biggest fish in this here pond Gets called a monster for a reason I mean I won’t spill yeah I’m no snitch But I bet the minnows taste delicious The freaky fishes with no eyes The bottom feeder succubi All god’s creatives, meant to be This ain’t a scene it’s a feeding frenzy I could never figure you out If it can’t be counted, does it count? When you’re up you’re up all night and When you’re down you're DOWN! And when you’re only half way up You’re no fun to be around And the saddest part of all of this Is you have got the brightest gift At least that’s what you hope is true When you settle up and leave the venue
7.
Dull as a molar I gnaw through the day Caught in the craw of a modern malaise Time traveler trapped in a one way lane Splitting hairs for a past time I admit these are fine lines Tell me that you miss me, well prove it You could never best me, and you knew it I would I would I would be a fool to Suffer suffer suffer like you mean it Doing your best you regress to the mean Stretching the truth from regret to reprieve An astronaut trapped on a trampoline You outpace any insight All tunnel, no light Tell me that you miss me, well prove it You could never best me, and you knew it I would I would I would be a fool to Suffer suffer suffer like you mean it Even on your best days, you blew it I could never hold you to a promise I would be a fool to Suffer like you mean it I want you to eat my words I want you to eat my words I want you to eat my words I want you to masticate me Tell me that you miss me, well prove it You could never best me, and you knew it I would I would I would be a fool to Suffer suffer suffer like you mean it Even on your best days, you blew it (detonate me, yeah) I could never hold you to a promise (you collapse into) I would be a fool to (apologize and call it progress) Suffer like you mean it
8.
A pit stop, a piss break A giant plaster peach A wasted town A waveless beach I can’t help it I throw stones like if I Keep in motion I won’t sink A flip flop, a shit take mired in intractable scum rebuttal fizzles on my tongue I can’t help it I throw stones like if I Keep in motion I won’t sink If at the bottom of everything We are all alone Then I want nothing but unending bliss I’m pissed off At history’s end Landlocked from everyone I’ve been A fish with lungs New fangled freak A lonely leap A sacred breach The ones I was Sing each to each In tongues that I No longer speak I can’t help it I throw stones like if I Keep in motion I won’t sink If at the bottom of everything We are all alone Then I want nothing but unending bliss For my enemies
9.
The white savior myth got a good night’s rest She is twenty minutes late and impeccably dressed She is skinny like a teen and exactly as depressed And a genius Empire is naked and it’s so so brave She is licking a peach She is accessing rage She is salting the fields And she’s looking blasé While she does it And maybe i’m the pot calling the kettle bitch-ass But I mean it when I say that [censored] is a hack
10.
Obscura 04:51
The farther off the celestial body the better glimpsed by the edge of the eye The rods, the cones conspire against me I only see you when I’m not trying I spare the rods, batten the hatches A hypnagogue bent on burying my half wit I dream your double edges, as plain as day You only hurt because you cut both ways And I know it, but I don't get it I see it clear from real far off We collapse like there’s nothing to it First love dies and then love rots And you can wrap it up, tight in cellophane Clear your conscience, the barrier remains You can wrap it up, tight in cellophane Baby who could blame you When it goes bad? You point the pinhole and I strive for stillness I chart your course with my aperture wide Our nameless moon carves a ditch in the darkness You only see me inverted and upside down And I know it, but I don’t get it I see it clear from far away We collapse like there’s nothing to it First love dies, then love decays And you can wrap it up, tight in cellophane Clear your conscience, the barrier remains You can wrap it up, tight in cellophane Baby who could blame you When it goes bad? The farther off the celestial body The better glimpsed by the edge of the eye The rods, the cones conspire against me I only miss you when I feel sideways
11.
If what I am changes minute to minute The bundle of skin cells the bouquet of ligaments Tether together the guts in the belly The hug of the boxer elastic around me While mutable boulders cut trails cross the desert Me minus one atom wants you like forever If i’m exactly as bad as they say And the limes aren’t very forgiving today I will SUCK IT! right up Lick the juice from my palm Cause I know you’ll be with me when I die alone If what I am changes minute to minute Me minus one atom wants you like I’m permanent
12.
Utopia Now! 01:47
It’s a shame it’s a shame A fear made fact A future met feral and fanged for attack I got taller, louder, two steps back I shouldn’t ever get accustomed to contact I was grave It was grave More often than not I’d turn on myself at a twist in the plot I buried the lede but the bitch came back I shouldn’t ever get accustomed to contact Cause anything’s a poison in the right dose And everybody bites when you get close Baby are you? I can’t relax but I’m good for other things All I want is you, you, utopia now Cause anything’s a poison in the right dose And everybody bites when you get close Baby are you?
13.
Eternal Life 03:28
Eternal life is the intersection of the line of time and the plane of now We live forever Sun is the reflection of a light within us Life is god We shine eternally Eternal life is the intersection of the line of time and the plane of now We live forever Change is life’s only constant factor varied We live each moment each moment is forever Ruled by human logic we sometimes confine ourselves To one plane of the universe Given absolute sight We can see infinitely and know that we live forever Shine eternally Our souls are the centers of realization In realization of life we love In love we know we live forever and shine eternally Eternal life is the intersection of the line of time and the plane of now We live forever

credits

released March 22, 2024

all songs written by rosie tucker (except "eternal life" written by shira small)
all songs produced by wolfy (except "maylene" produced by rosie tucker)

drums - sam becht (2-4, 6-9) and madi vogt (1,5,10,11,13)
bass - genna projansky (2,3,6,7,9) and rosie tucker (4,5,8,10,13)
guitars - rosie tucker and wolfy
keys/synths/programming - rosie tucker and wolfy

gang vocals on "all my exes" - first ever boys (ollie bruer, jimmy villaflor, genna projansky) and sarchasm (mateo campos-seligman, stevie campos-seligman, alex botkin)
saxophone on "eternal life" - marta tiesenga

recorded and engineered by keith armstrong and wolfy at pietown sound and sucker studio

mixed by keith armstrong
mastered by jett galindo

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