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Drone Bomb Me

A worthwhile pursuit caught in the sights of the inert warhead of a R9X missile

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Carl Watts
Jun 20, 2024
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mountains / drone bomb / seas

Perfect crystals exploding into smaller perfect crystals. That’s what the beginning of Anohni’s “Drone Bomb Me” has always sounded like. It’s an illogical, almost arbitrary image that’s similar to the not-quite-metaphysical comparisons that hang together half-established in the song’s opening lyrics:

Love, drone bomb me

Blow m…

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