“Can’t Be Sure” by Lune Rose speaks to the uncertainties and misapprehensions that have sprung up in new ways in the era of social media and text-only forms of communication with which you don’t get solid hints of tone, inflection and body language. One’s insecurities can run rampant in the imagination and haunt your conscious thoughts like a cloak of darkness. The sinuous flow of the murky synths and the pulsing tones reflect the way you can almost hypnotize yourself into revisiting your worst fears and how social media algorithms seem to reinforce a sense of disconnect from what’s real and thus your own emotions and your actual relationships with others. That the song is in part about the threat of these things on a long distance relationship is worth noting but if we’re to be honest with ourselves, similar emotional and social phenomena happens even when our loved one doesn’t live far away as the technologies that are meant to bring us closer together at a distance often serve to do the opposite.
Queen City Sounds and Art 