Listen: EMA Damns The Internet On New Track, ‘3Jane’

With Erika M Anderson’s new album ‘The Future’s Void’ fast approaching, she’s spilled a crucial, cold truth with ‘3Jane’, taken from said album.

The track’s all about the damaging effects of the internet. Hold on - not in the customary, ‘why are we photographing our dinner?’ sort of way. This take’s a bit more enlightening. It hones in at how hate and venom spread like a virus on a public forum, and how as you get slightly more famous - as Erika is - you become more exposed to the problems.

She’s released the song alongside a statement:

“No one was really ever that mean to me on the internet. I never had that “thing” that happens when you wake up one morning and somehow your life is ruined because a mortifying picture goes viral or a “funny” tweet becomes horribly misread. Sure, there were bitchy things in the comments of videos, but organized trolls never unleashed a wave of death threats on me, and only a few people suggested that I kill myself.

So the internet never actually did that to me. But it did that to somebody. And now we all have this stupid crippling fear that someday it will happen to us. And the likelihood increases as you move from relative obscurity to becoming more broadly visible on the internet. There are more cameras on you, more chances to be quoted saying something stupid, and more people out there who relish seeing successful people disgraced and dethroned.

Do you have that fear yet? Do you want it?”

EMA releases ‘The Future’s Void on 7th April.

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EMA plays the following UK dates:

JUNE
03 London, Garage
04 Manchester, Ruby Lounge
05 Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
06 Bristol, The Lantern