SMALLER HEARTS – “MEAN ROUTINE”
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“This song is about how we can have great ideals and big plans for who we think we are, who we want to be, and how we’ll change the world—but the daily grind of going to work and paying the bills gets in the way,” said Smaller Hearts’ Kristina Parlee (she/her) and Ron Bates (he/him). “The mean routine is the pattern of not getting to do the things we really want to do.”
“We drew a picture of the world we hoped to see / Held it close to heart in hopes that it would come to be,” sings Parlee, on this pining synthpop song. “And plans keep interrupting our plans.”
“‘Mean Routine’ comes back to 2020 being a big interrupted year,” Parlee and Bates said. “And being interrupted by something big that you couldn’t control, you start to think about the smaller ways life pushes you away from the things you want to pursue, and how we should push back and just try to do them. After a year that kept us from our friends and our interests and our plans, ‘Mean Routine’ encourages us to try to seize the moment as we emerge into the possibility of something new.”
Smaller Hearts
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(Independent)
Release Date: July 23, 2021
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Background Photo Credit: Meg Yoshida
