Song Club #39: Digital Ghosts

Digital ephemera, social media selves and abandoned life traces

This morning, I found myself in an extended conversation about the first iteration Snapchat. You know, the version where you’d take dumb picture, draw something rude on it, and send it to a friend before it self-destructed. It made me think about digital ephemera, social media selves and the traces of our lives that get left in abandoned corners of the internet.

On the one hand, I think of my digital footprint as a sort of garbage pit of embarrassment. On the other, there’s a richness too it: layers of life I mostly don’t think about in the present, random moments, big feels, and tiny interactions that I have all but forgotten.

So, this week, in our songwriting I thought it would be interesting it use our own digital pasts as a leaping off point—a treasure trove of old emotions for creative mining.

Big love and keep going, 

Lucy 

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SONG PROVOCATIONS

Write a song inspired by an unread message.

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