With “My Metrocard” Bad Peach pays tribute to the venerable MetroCard (in place since 1993) being phased out in late 2025 as a method to pay for using the public transit system in New York, replaced by the contactless, tap-to-pay OMNY (One Metro New York) system by card and phone. The song is a fusion of scrappy art punk and lo-fi synth pop and shows the band performing on the transit platforms around NYC and near shouting the conflicted affection for the fixture in one’s life as a New Yorker. “You kind of suck, but I kind of liked it/You’re kind of ugly but in a good way” sums up the attitude in saying goodbye to something that seemed like yet another part of everyday life we have to bid farewell in favor of something that seems to always invite more surveillance into our lives. Bad Peach rages against this dubious gesture of progress because that sort of thing in late capitalism usually means we pay more for less. Watch the video for “My Metrocard” on YouTube and follow Bad Peach on Spotify.
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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