☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>““I was intimidated by <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a>,” she says. “I didn’t grow up around it that much. I finished <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/HighSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HighSchool</span></a>, but barely. It’s really easy to feel kind of ashamed of yourself for not being sure how to get your foot in it, or to get the confidence to speak out about stuff.” She’s wary of “isolating” those who are politically unengaged, but stands AGAINST <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RightWingers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RightWingers</span></a> opposed to “basic social caring” on the basis that it’s ‘woke’: </p><p>“A lot of people are anti-people and they’re actually the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/snowflakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>snowflakes</span></a>.”</p><p>Anyway, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AmyTaylor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmyTaylor</span></a> adds, “I don’t just wanna be <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/singing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>singing</span></a> about crap. The world’s filled with junk – layers and layers and layers of junk. Pointless crap. I don’t wanna be contributing to that.”</p><p>She isn’t flat-out anti-<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>, but is concerned that the technology could lead to further isolation. Here, though, she is pragmatic: “I’m pretty aware that things happen with or without my consent in terms of the world moving forward. If it’s not now, it will later be a part of my life – the same way nobody really wanted <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/smartphones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smartphones</span></a>.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusMusic</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Melbourne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Melbourne</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AmylAndTheSniffers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmylAndTheSniffers</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/punk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punk</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/RockMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RockMusic</span></a> <<a href="https://www.nme.com/features/music-interviews/amyl-and-the-sniffers-interview-cartoon-darkness-3803607" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nme.com/features/music-intervi</span><span class="invisible">ews/amyl-and-the-sniffers-interview-cartoon-darkness-3803607</span></a>></p>