The clashing sounds, raw noise and chaos of “No Quiero Votar” by Office Hours gives way to wilder swings and jarring passages of guitar music with a hint of what might be described as atonal melody as the song rushes headlong to its conclusion. A fitting structure and arrangement for a song whose title in English means “I Don’t Want to Vote.” It sounds like a rejection of the illusion of choice when there are none that are particularly great in a political system geared toward giving the elites everything they want and the pandering pantomime of identity politics and fear mongering to an uneducated public that is largely apolitical but convinced of the validity of its opinions. The powers that be favor nihilism and de facto compliance from a citizenry that seems easily placated but for those that genuinely care about consequences and trying to live a life in a relatively sane and stable human community it just seems like a perverse and cynical set of choices so how to react initially except to maybe write a crazy song with a weary lyric expressing a simple denouncement of empty rhetoric. Listen to “No Quiero Votar” on Spotify and follow Office Hours at the links provided.
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