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STUCK

by Fred Afraid

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1.
Stuck 01:24
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Time flies by But you’ve been stuck for so long What to do Would be much easier If you had a clue And time flies by But you’ve been stuck With no one around Don’t pretend that it’s alright
2.
Not Easy 02:40
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You will forget me soon If that’s what you want Can’t help but ask Are you insane? Don’t try to hide I see your pain Through miles away So please Try to remember me It’s not that easy Ooooh Let’s go somewhere let’s have fun Tell me what you wanna hear I’ll try to say what you like Ooooh Let’s go somewhere let’s fuck hard Tell me what you wanna do I’ll try to do what you like But please Try to remember me It’s not that easy
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Bad Taste 03:15
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it leaves a bad taste it’s the takes before the cakes the mistakes i’ve wasted all my life but everything works right now i can erase i rephrase rearrange is that fair at all? close your eyes before the magic’s gone bad day everyday is the wrong one and I always try and fail till I’m hungry no more cakes are all around but i hate this town it ruins my appetite everynight without a bite but i wake up and i wanna bake more bad taste everyday is the right one and feels like things could be clear Anywhere but here cakes are all around but i hate this town it ruins my appetite everynight without a bite
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Loser 02:14
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I’m gonna find the perfect sound I’m gonna make it I’m gonna need a perfect plan To make you notice I’m gonna find the perfect sound I’gonna make it (Right) I’m gonna need a perfect plan To make you notice (Gonna find the perfect sound) But it takes too long to make Throw it all away Please don’t leave me babe I’m a loser (Sound) Said you’d gonna help me but You’ve been busy Been trying hard to make this track But you never show up Cheers to being cool without Talking about it I tried to find the perfect sound To make you love me (Gonna find the perfect plan) But it takes too long to make Throw it all away Please don’t leave me babe I’m a loser
5.
Step Outside 02:10
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Step outside It’s alright No one cares The world keeps spinning I don’t care who’s left And who’s next And who’s around The world keeps spinning All I think of is you

about

STUCK EP is a contradicting collection of playful songs about the passage of time, loss, the difficulty of living in a cruel environment-inhospitable to new ideas, identity formation through the eyes of others and ways of coping(or not) with all the above.


The first song,“STUCK”, sets the tone. It was inspired by the music for a small animation I did some time ago. The animation was based on a drawing called VERBAL FIGHT, out of my HIBERNATION series.
During the pandemic, I constantly imagined an empty field with someone/-thing just being stuck there, completely alone, watching the clouds go by. A desert feeling of loneliness. This feeling slowly transformed to the more ambiguous feeling of anxiety and existential dread. In the end, all these took the form of a jingle-like small song.

“NOT EASY” talks about the loss of an important person and the vague desire to stay friends.

“BAD TASTE” is about my hometown, Athens :((((

In “LOSER” a groovy,sexy voice talks about their effort to make a song to impress and their failure to do so, dew to the amount of time needed.

“STEP OUTSIDE” is an outro


The pitched vocals throughout the whole EP create a sense of depersonalisation and build different characters that sing their words through their own point of view. The artwork was first made a while ago, as an homage to a theatrical play for children I was a part of, that got to an end.

All of the above are just random thoughts that I’m now quickly writing down. Feel free to roam.


Fred :)

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released May 18, 2022

Music, lyrics and artwork by Fred Afraid
Produced by Fred Afraid and Nick Athens
Mixed by Fred Afraid
Mastered by Nasos Nomikos

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Fred Afraid Athens, Greece

Fred Afraid is a musician, producer and visual artist, continuously merging sound and image to create idiosyncratic spaces of flowing ideas, building consistent worlds where one medium would fail to fully describe.

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