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kiidk'yaas - is this how instrumental lyric videos work?

2026-10-10  ·  Everyone puts out lyric videos for their singles - how do we do that with instrumental music?

One of the biggest questions when starting this project revolves around my obsession with focusing in on a clear reason for existing. Why make this music? What message is it trying to convey? who is it for? why are you making it? This point of view feels difficult sometimes - this is even more complex when you remove the idea of lyrics carrying the meaning. My solution is as follows. Newspeech will release lyric videos the same way everyone else does - but ours will be the direct messaging of the concerns that caused the creation of this music. The guitar playing sounds like an alarm on this song because it fucking is.

Below is a giant list for you to read, probably only if you're mad at this and want to try to discredit it. The sources are real, the numbers are cited below. We all know what is happening here and we're choosing to ignore it, or to give ourselves some grace, we're being put into a position in society where the weight of this burden is placed on the people who have the least ability to do something about it. Government and corporations ask us to use paper grocery bags while we overpay for everything and they fly private on their way to the yacht in mykonos.

download the 'dead ocean' ep

sources

Anyways, the sources are below. These links will send you out to the sites that I pulled them from. If you have a concern about my reading of any of this please feel free to reach out.

IN THE U.S., FROM 1980 TO 2024,
THERE WERE NINE BILLION-DOLLAR
DISASTERS A YEAR, ON AVERAGE.
THE LAST FIVE YEARS THERE HAVE
BEEN MORE THAN TWENTY A YEAR.
2024 WAS THE HOTTEST
YEAR ON RECORD.
1.55°C ABOVE PRE-INDUSTRIAL.
IN 2024 ALONE THERE WERE
TWENTY-SEVEN DISASTERS.
HURRICANE HELENE: 250 DEAD.
$78.7 BILLION IN DAMAGE.
$182 BILLION IN DAMAGE
IN A SINGLE YEAR.
568 AMERICANS DIED.
IN 2025, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
STOPPED COUNTING THESE DISASTERS.
HOME INSURANCE PREMIUMS ROSE
BY A THIRD FROM 2020 TO 2023.
INSURERS DECLINED TO RENEW
NEARLY TWO MILLION HOME POLICIES,
2018–2023.
WORLDWIDE, INSURED DISASTER
LOSSES REACHED $137 BILLION
IN 2024.
THE LOS ANGELES FIRES:
$40 BILLION IN INSURED LOSSES.
31 PEOPLE DIED.
MORE THAN 16,000
BUILDINGS DESTROYED.
EXTREME WEATHER DROVE FOOD PRICE
SPIKES IN 18 COUNTRIES
IN JUST TWO YEARS.
IN 2024, DISASTERS FORCED
PEOPLE FROM THEIR HOMES
45.8 MILLION TIMES. A RECORD.
HURRICANES HELENE
AND MILTON ALONE:
8.4 MILLION DISPLACEMENTS.
PAKISTAN, 2022:
FLOODS AFFECTED
33 MILLION PEOPLE.
MORE THAN 1,700 DIED.
ABOUT 8 MILLION WERE DISPLACED.
CLIMATE CHANGE ACCOUNTS FOR
AN ESTIMATED $143 BILLION A YEAR
IN EXTREME-WEATHER COSTS.
NEARLY TWO-THIRDS OF THAT COST IS
COUNTED IN HUMAN LIVES.
HEAT NOW KILLS AN ESTIMATED
546,000 PEOPLE A YEAR.
84% OF HEATWAVE DAYS
WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED
WITHOUT CLIMATE CHANGE.
HEAT KILLED 2,325 AMERICANS
IN 2023. MORE THAN EVER RECORDED.
U.S. HEAT DEATHS HAVE
MORE THAN DOUBLED SINCE 1999.
DROUGHTS AND FLOODS PUSHED
96 MILLION PEOPLE INTO FOOD CRISIS
IN 2024.
295 MILLION PEOPLE FACED
ACUTE HUNGER IN 2024.
THE SIXTH YEAR OF INCREASE.
IN THE HORN OF AFRICA,
CLIMATE CHANGE MADE DROUGHT
AT LEAST 100 TIMES MORE LIKELY.
IN SOMALIA, AN ESTIMATED 43,000
DIED IN 2022. HALF WERE
CHILDREN UNDER FIVE.
BY 2030, CLIMATE CHANGE
COULD PUSH UP TO 132 MILLION
PEOPLE INTO EXTREME POVERTY.
HEAT COST WORKERS $1.09 TRILLION
IN LOST INCOME IN 2024.
WEATHER DISASTERS DISPLACED
CHILDREN 43 MILLION TIMES
IN SIX YEARS. 20,000 A DAY.
RIVER FLOODS COULD DISPLACE
96 MILLION CHILDREN
IN THE NEXT 30 YEARS.
EVERY NUMBER HERE IS A BILL.
SOMEONE PAYS IT.
THE COSTS ARE NOT COMING.
THEY ARE HERE.
THE PEOPLE PAYING THE MOST
DID THE LEAST TO CAUSE IT.

Yeah, you're right, these are editorial. Please feel free to attempt to argue this point though.

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All footage is public domain: works of the US federal government (17 U.S.C. §105), from FEMA (via Internet Archive mirrors of FEMA's YouTube) and the NASA Image and Video Library.