vtuber by The 3Represents

The 3Represents make guitar-forward music for the emotionally threadbare and culturally oversaturated. Their 3rd album vtuber is a raw, sardonic, and deeply human dispatch from the margins--where irony and sincerity blur, and survival is both literal and existential.

Rooted in the jagged DNA of late-'70s and '80s alternative / indie rock--the sound is stripped, punchy, and unvarnished. But it’s the lyrics that cut deepest: obsessive, self-effacing, and brutally funny. These songs chronicle the lives of people who are broke, lonely, and clinging to whatever scraps of dignity they can find--whether it’s a jelly donut, a vtuber's attention, or a lottery ticket.

The album swings between:

• Parasocial yearning ("Kronii," "Ten Seconds")
• Economic despair ("Day After Day," "Garden of Failure")
• Self-loathing and defiance ("I Wear a Mask to Hide My Ugly Face," "Fat")
• Explosive misanthropy ("Last Donut," "Nobody but You")
• Absurdist fantasy ("Shohei Ohtani")
• Delusional hope ("Free")

There's no moralizing here. No tidy redemption arcs. Just the dignity of effort, the comedy of failure, and the poetry of being ignored. vtuber doesn't ask for your sympathy--it dares you to look away.

Note: Yeah, I'm not going to lie, I had AI analyze my lyrics and write this up. It did a hell of a better job than I could do, so...

We eat. We nap. We produce methane.