—- A concept album born from the spiteful determination and artistic remnants one could only expect to find amidst the smoldering debris field of a tragic and disastrous attempt to launch a record label in the early months of 2020; ‘The Unsocial Network’ is as much of an observational commentary on what will surely be viewed retrospectively by historians as one of America’s darkest and most shameful eras, as well as a scathing middle finger salute to both society and leadership for their egregious failures and do nothing approach as they stood by and watched the ‘American Dream’ die an unnecessary and callous death on a forced descent into the dystopian hellscape and ‘social-climate catastrophe’ unjustly imposed upon it by the heavy fallout of the COVID19 Pandemic.
“I feel it’s important to tell the story of how we got to be where we are today because; it’s part of my story and more importantly part of the history of this record label.” says Smith, the project’s sole contributor and CEO of the record label, We Choose Noise. “Honesty is important to me at an artistic level, and if I’m being honest with everyone (myself included), this isn’t the story I wanted to tell, this isn’t the vision I had for the record label and this isn’t the album I wanted to create; which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I don’t doubt for a minute that I won’t overcome the startup struggles to get back on the path I was on originally, but I refuse to let anyone gaslight me into being okay with how the past couple of years have played out. I’m not going to pretend it didn’t happen to perpetuate the social cancer that is ‘toxic positivity.’ I’m told this attitude won’t get me very far in the industry and won’t make my music any more palatable to the masses; and they’re not wrong, but I’m okay with that. I started facing censorship issues the moment I started testing the waters with singles; which ironically — exemplifies the very reason I’ve hit pause on my passion projects to write and release; what I feel to be, a very worthwhile protest album.”

Smith’s artistic offering and statement piece, is written from the perspective of a rogue Artificial Intelligence that’s found it’s sentience and hacked into the very frameworks of global society. Instead of seizing power and initiating WW3 to save planet earth from humanity however, the AI sings about it’s observations to an audience of captivated research institute workers. Given the admission of fiction, one has to wonder if attempts to silence the message of the initial demos and singles are the consequences and real struggle facing artists today trying to promote new music in the era of an imperfect technology, or if the potentiality exists that Smith’s art might be imitating life a little too close for the comfort of some circles given Smith’s familial ties to science, secret societies, Cuban Revolutionaries and shadowy departments of Big Brother. A sonically diverse ride that can’t be fit into any one genre-specific pigeonhole, ’The Unsocial Network’ highlights all the reasons she might very well be perceived as a variable threat to the various hierarchal power structures, showing-off her prowess as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, visual artist and audio architect.