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The NYPD is the local arm that upholds and protects both national and international injustices. Anti-genocide protests in particular included scenarios where peaceful protesters were met with police at a ratio of 1:1. During one protest in particular the NYPD outnumbered peaceful protesters entirely. Officers stood guard with batons in hand, the Imperial Boomerang coming home as drones surveyed from the corners of every sky, Roman columns of courthouses serve as backdrops to a commander screaming orders through a\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e blowhorn, and individual police placed themselves around Tesla Cybertrucks as gestures of bodily sacrifice to the “unthinkable” potential of petty vandalism. They would take a bullet for private property lest their lords pull out their rifles to hunt them like bunny rabbits in the carrot patch. \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. Dick Cheney is BRAT 02:37\u003cbr\u003e2. Our Landlord, Who Art in Heaven 02:42\u003cbr\u003e3. This Doesn't Really Create a Big Problem for You at Home 02:20\u003cbr\u003e4. Penetrate the Skull and Destroy the Contents 02:38\u003cbr\u003e5. Not Through Allah 02:17\u003cbr\u003e6. I Still Have My Heart in the Oil Company 01:32\u003cbr\u003e7. Somebody Pushed the Dog in the Lake 01:02\u003cbr\u003e8. I Would Never Allow Personal Responsibility 01:34\u003cbr\u003e9. Many of You Are Going to Become Millionaires 01:36\u003cbr\u003e10. Drinking Mercury 03:13\u003cbr\u003e11. Breakups Are Awkward 01:34\u003cbr\u003e12. Born a Bunny Rabbit 01:16\u003cbr\u003e13. A World Willing to Submit 01:23\u003cbr\u003e14. A Meaningless Smile 04:03\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePress text excerpt:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWere You Born a Bunny Rabbit? takes its title from a televised news report in which a reporter volunteered to be waterboarded. In a near cartoonish parody of itself, a newscaster’s voiceover states that this method of torture can make anyone agree to anything while on the screen, an interrogator screams “were you born a bunny rabbit” at the drowning journalist. This question, and the journalists exclamations of “yes!”, serve as stand-ins for whatever actual false War on Terror intel was pulled from torture victims. Rostami, who was becoming politically aware in the early aughts during his high school years, remembers the corporate news media’s role in helping to lay the groundwork for public consent for wars in the Middle East but also their criticisms of militarism that didn’t intend to contextualize, let alone interrogate, the deeper motivations of Western Imperialism. The audience is not left with any insight on America’s political and corporate interests in the global south, but rather just a sad and uncomfortable feeling while imagining individuals held, without due process, in prisons like Guantanamo Bay being asked if they were born as bunny rabbits.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe album is mostly constructed of cut-up and recontextualized media clips ranging from British reporting on the 1953\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e coup in Iran to reports as recent as the American bombings of Venezuelan ships and the collapse of a copper mine in the DRC in late 2025. The title quote “were you born a bunny rabbit?” appears on the opening track, “Dick Cheney is BRAT.” The title itself is taken from a meme mocking “Kamala is BRAT” after Dick Cheney’s endorsement of the Harris campaign in 2024. The track interweaves Sade’s lyrics from “Is it a Crime?” throughout by using cut-up audio of Dick Cheney and lowbrow true crime shows to ask “is it… uh? Crime. That uh still. Love. You.”, along with amateur acapella renditions and a saccharin, breathy overperformance from a competitive reality TV show rendition of “Is It a Crime?” empty of any notion that Sade once sang it as a love song. This opening track moves back and forth between two interviews with Dick Cheney, one where he is defending America’s invasion of Iraq, which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and the other where Cheney speaks on the preciousness of life after surviving yet another heart attack. The song ends with cut-up clips of Dick Cheney stating that he doesn’t recall if anyone told him he was committing crimes against humanity or war crimes noting that “hard work never killed anyone” while a reality competition contestant belts the question “is it a crime?” alongside blaring dissonance...\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Aria Rostami\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : self-released\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease date : 23rd March 2026\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2026-03-24T09:42:28+09:00","created_at":"2026-03-23T09:03:42+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["aria","books \/ clothing \/ others","house","monooto","new","self-released","techno \/ house"],"price":228800,"price_min":228800,"price_max":228800,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":48514749792506,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":null,"requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Aria Rostami \/\/ Were You Born a Bunny Rabbit? 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The NYPD is the local arm that upholds and protects both national and international injustices. Anti-genocide protests in particular included scenarios where peaceful protesters were met with police at a ratio of 1:1. During one protest in particular the NYPD outnumbered peaceful protesters entirely. Officers stood guard with batons in hand, the Imperial Boomerang coming home as drones surveyed from the corners of every sky, Roman columns of courthouses serve as backdrops to a commander screaming orders through a\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e blowhorn, and individual police placed themselves around Tesla Cybertrucks as gestures of bodily sacrifice to the “unthinkable” potential of petty vandalism. They would take a bullet for private property lest their lords pull out their rifles to hunt them like bunny rabbits in the carrot patch. \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e1. Dick Cheney is BRAT 02:37\u003cbr\u003e2. Our Landlord, Who Art in Heaven 02:42\u003cbr\u003e3. This Doesn't Really Create a Big Problem for You at Home 02:20\u003cbr\u003e4. Penetrate the Skull and Destroy the Contents 02:38\u003cbr\u003e5. Not Through Allah 02:17\u003cbr\u003e6. I Still Have My Heart in the Oil Company 01:32\u003cbr\u003e7. Somebody Pushed the Dog in the Lake 01:02\u003cbr\u003e8. I Would Never Allow Personal Responsibility 01:34\u003cbr\u003e9. Many of You Are Going to Become Millionaires 01:36\u003cbr\u003e10. Drinking Mercury 03:13\u003cbr\u003e11. Breakups Are Awkward 01:34\u003cbr\u003e12. Born a Bunny Rabbit 01:16\u003cbr\u003e13. A World Willing to Submit 01:23\u003cbr\u003e14. A Meaningless Smile 04:03\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePress text excerpt:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWere You Born a Bunny Rabbit? takes its title from a televised news report in which a reporter volunteered to be waterboarded. In a near cartoonish parody of itself, a newscaster’s voiceover states that this method of torture can make anyone agree to anything while on the screen, an interrogator screams “were you born a bunny rabbit” at the drowning journalist. This question, and the journalists exclamations of “yes!”, serve as stand-ins for whatever actual false War on Terror intel was pulled from torture victims. Rostami, who was becoming politically aware in the early aughts during his high school years, remembers the corporate news media’s role in helping to lay the groundwork for public consent for wars in the Middle East but also their criticisms of militarism that didn’t intend to contextualize, let alone interrogate, the deeper motivations of Western Imperialism. The audience is not left with any insight on America’s political and corporate interests in the global south, but rather just a sad and uncomfortable feeling while imagining individuals held, without due process, in prisons like Guantanamo Bay being asked if they were born as bunny rabbits.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe album is mostly constructed of cut-up and recontextualized media clips ranging from British reporting on the 1953\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e coup in Iran to reports as recent as the American bombings of Venezuelan ships and the collapse of a copper mine in the DRC in late 2025. The title quote “were you born a bunny rabbit?” appears on the opening track, “Dick Cheney is BRAT.” The title itself is taken from a meme mocking “Kamala is BRAT” after Dick Cheney’s endorsement of the Harris campaign in 2024. The track interweaves Sade’s lyrics from “Is it a Crime?” throughout by using cut-up audio of Dick Cheney and lowbrow true crime shows to ask “is it… uh? Crime. That uh still. Love. You.”, along with amateur acapella renditions and a saccharin, breathy overperformance from a competitive reality TV show rendition of “Is It a Crime?” empty of any notion that Sade once sang it as a love song. This opening track moves back and forth between two interviews with Dick Cheney, one where he is defending America’s invasion of Iraq, which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and the other where Cheney speaks on the preciousness of life after surviving yet another heart attack. The song ends with cut-up clips of Dick Cheney stating that he doesn’t recall if anyone told him he was committing crimes against humanity or war crimes noting that “hard work never killed anyone” while a reality competition contestant belts the question “is it a crime?” alongside blaring dissonance...\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Aria Rostami\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : self-released\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease date : 23rd March 2026\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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