Gameboi promotes NFTs? That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen. It’s been around a year since the release of the song, yet, antis only found it today to create an issue— not to mention the unintentional demonstration of their limited comprehension skills.
Here are the lyrics to Gamboi:
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I am just a game boy
Day ones are all I keep around me
From the front door in our house
To the server 05 which is my route
My character is cool
Even if it’s dangerous out there, we want to see it
So turn the computer on
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game boy
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game boy
My dad never bought me a game console
I borrow it from my twin cousin hyungs every day
8-bit coins, I was chasing
Now there are bitcoins
I’ll be mining until 2077
“Where are you?”
“I just arrived”
“Wait,” I log in to have a conversation in the speech bubbles
“Where are you?”
“In the corner of my room wearing a tracksuit”
“From where you are, click on the mouse a couple times
Run to the last stage and stay exactly on the side
Grab it, pick it up, take the bus”
I’m cool too
From the front door in our house
To the server 05 which is my route
My character is cool
Even if it’s dangerous out there, we want to see it
So turn the computer on
Nobody can stop us
24 hours
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game boy
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game boy
Times are changing fast (fast, fast, fast)
But in order to adapt we change too (adapt)
Zooming to meetings
Buy a couple nfts
What else is trending?
Double-click, id, @, e-mail, dot, com
My character laughs on the speech bubble emoticon
Mask off and take a deep breath to hop into it
Tea time to be face to face, I don’t need a gift
Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t worry
We’ll meet each other soon, soon, soon
We’re both having fun in here 24 hours a day
Let’s not be impatient
From the front door in our house
To the server 05 which is my route
My character is cool
Even if it’s dangerous out there, we want to see it
So turn the computer on
Nobody can stop us
24 hours
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game boy
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game boy
From the front door in our house
To the server 05 which is my route
My character is cool
Even if it’s dangerous out there, we want to see it
So turn the computer on
Nobody can stop us
24 hours
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game boy
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game, game, game, game
Game boy
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I am just a game boy
Day ones are all I keep around me
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I don’t need new buddies
I am just a game boy
Day ones are all I keep around me
It’s funny how people are taking the line “Buy a couple NFTs,” and are sprinting with. Even I had to back track seeing how many of them were on my timeline. Just to be sure, I checked the lyrics only to find— the herd behaviour taking things out of context per usual.
This also showcases the importance of context, that serves to function as lens to interpret the world around us.
They don’t mean the lyrics quite literally. It’s a critique on the global climate and the trends people tend to adapt to whether that be negative or positive. “Era changes fast (whoosh), We change with it (we adapt to it), Zooming to meetings, Buy a couple NFTs— What else is trending?” In essence, it communicates the predicament Covid-19 has put people in. The time and norms have shifted, new trends have been created (good and bad). People hop on them quickly without much thought, which is what the song is referring to— the internal or external pressure of adapting to trends in order to fit in.
Anyways, stream Gameboi.