A media-industry lyric about spectacle, compression and payouts. “Squeezing clips like a Spotify payout” is an exact migration from the 2022 prose work Idol Singer of an Empty Hour.

J.R. Rider liner page 59
EGOTERRORISM liner p. 59

Connections and migrations

Context

Track 45 sits inside the official 52-track sequence documented by the liner book. The streaming edition may use different numbering because the release was divided into two platform-sized parts.