I've been thankful for how social media venues have kept me from too frequent indulgence in my own privately dark spaces. I've come to appreciate that privacy's mythic qualities may be immobilizing, destructive, and playfully productive. 

I have wanted to make this remix video for some time, and this track is just a start. I am hoping to gain participants who will shoot scenes of themselves in the spaces where they most sense privacy's palpably seductive truth (or any other critical reflective gestures -- re "privacy" -- they'd care to share). So, remix this. Put yourself into the scene. Compromising Bar Scene Re-enactment? Sure! Screenshot depicting poor updating choices? Why not?! The template I've often used to conceptualize is another Dandy Warhols video -- "Bohemian Like You." Check it out. See if you are inspired to shoot some video and share toward this remix. Do it. Now! Werq! (send to bonnie.kyburz@gmail.com ... thx!).

Thanks to The Dandy Warhols for the haunting tune and soulcrushingly massive inspiration. Thanks also to Steven Robinson 16 @ SoundCloud for an acoustic version that got me recording, and then (this) La Le Lu's more robust instrumental version I have remixed here. 

Note: This transformative remix is intended as a form of academic commentary, critique and inquiry. It was specifically commissioned as a conversation-inspiring work to be shared with a select, limited group of online academic readers in a non-commercial venue. The work adheres to Fair Use principles regarding, 1.) transformative use, 2.) intended use as comment and critique, 3.) proportionality, 4.) non-commerciality, and 5.) all works are appropriately cited (coming soon, though please note that of this posting, credit is afforded remix artists). Thus, in terms of "balance" recommended by the Center for Social Media's Code of Best Practices for Online Video as well as section 107 of U.S. Copyright law, this transformative critical work is protected by Fair Use policies and affordances.

Lyrics:

privacy is so passé
lyrics by bonnie lenore kyburz
music by The Dandy Warhols
(perf La Le Lu & alt version by Steven Robinson 16 via soundcloud)
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i never thought that you'd deactivate it, privacy is so passé, .... hey ey ey ... 
did you think that i don't know transparency, hacking and emotional shame? ... 
anyway, you're a full blown diva, dontcha know it? put it out on display ... hey, ey, ey
jeez come on you laugh and call it posing while you're rocking out t' GA, GA ... hey ey ey ... 
so see i never thought you'd ditch your profile, baby, privacy is so passé .. hey ey ey ey ey ... ey... ey
hey ey ey ey ey...

hey, you're insane ...
i think you oughta recognize you’re shut in in a very very tragical way, don't ya say
you're in control, you check your settings, but decided that you'd take a vacay?
from the pain, missing notifications and the "liking" never going your way?
but sashay ... you coulda got yourself a piercing, instagramming it the very same day!

hey, buzzkill-ey
did you think that i don't know convention and the motherf*cking DMCA?
cuz replay, remix is a gesture is the way we talkin ubiquitously anyway
it's okay, but see that you're afraid of your repression, and you love it in the very same way
it's okay, don't delete it cuz we're all in here together vibing on the passé ey ey 
privacy is so passé ey ey ...
hey ey ey ey ey .......


Bonnie Lenore Kyburz