Crucial Track for July 4, 2025

"The Happiest Place On Earth" by Desaparecidos

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Making up my own prompt today... What song is defining your July 4th experience today?

Easy but sad one. The Happiest Place on Earth by Desaparecidos. It's the perfect mix of despondent rage and Oberst's brand of pop to provide a cathartic listen on a day that should be defined by freedom but is instead overshadowed by the establishment of local concentration camps, remote torture camps, the loss of necessary social services that is already resulting in untold chaos and death, all in the name of some billionaires making bank.

> I want to pledge allegiance to the country where I live > I don’t want to be ashamed to be American

Not today.