“Machine Learning” is a song about social performance, about what happens when you construct so many different versions of yourself to please others that you lose sight of the “real” you. As someone who’s struggled their entire life with social anxiety, I find I sometimes feel like a robot, constantly programming my behavior to maximize my social output and make other people happy — even at the expense of my own feelings. Growing up being dubbed the “weird” kid left me with a deep fear of exclusion; “Machine Learning” is my attempt to chronicle what it was like to bury that “weirdness” for years before I grew the confidence to show my authentic self to the world.
It truly means the world to me that I get to be so vulnerable in my music with you. Thank you for everything. I hope you enjoy this ro-bop. 🙂
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My autistic ass relates to the so much
Day's bad. Listening to the instructions of the song.
Only 146k!!??? This is so underrated, this should go viral
My precious sabre tooth tiger . no wonder my dragons see you as much treasure to protect !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
This makes me tear up! 😢 Beautiful song! ❤
You might be the best songwriter I’ve ever seen
Mmmm yeeahh having to have to literally learn and chart how tones work, how people function, refusing to talk to others cause I don't know their "programs"… That hits extremely right in the feels…
All my life I’ve loved robots/robot characters and related to them so hard, it was only upon finding this song a couple years ago that I realized why. Like “ah, that’s me, I see.” Listening to this song ALWAYS makes me tear up, it’s so beautiful and I feel it so much.
Orang mana, yang gokil buat intrumen lagu menggunakan teks javascript, boom keren banget…
Real tho
Im autistic and this is totally me. I'm so happy I have others that relate.
Sabre tooth tiger.. 🐉❤
POV – Zane from ninjago
This song is incredible. I don't have worlds to express how deeply I resonate with this. Thank you.
Yeah when they say be yourself it only means that if youre nt like them.
This song represent what i want to create. the perfect AI who acts like a human
What if I said Leo Valdez
What if I said Leo Valdez.
Really such a beautiful song!
I don't know why it took so long for me to find this song! <3 Speaks so hard to me, being on the spectrum.
is the syntax error at the end intentional? Machine being more than a machine by making a simple human mistake?
I'm apparently not neurodivergent but a very closeted very gay person. Turns out that charade is also a thing you have to put on, and it also sucks. I do feel like it'a a machine. And I totally havem't memorised the manual, internalised homophobia is keeping me up at 3am soooo
I just found you and since I study AI this song caught my attention. It's totally not what I expected, but also totally relevant. Thanks for this
You want to be like everyone else, but that's not why you excel
This made me cry. It's currently my favorite song. I'm autistic and I didn't even get diagnosed till I was 19. I have spent the last 23 years having to force myself to learn how to be a people and make others like me but I suck at it. I don't even know who I am anymore or what I really like. I don't feel more than a machine.
This song perfectly explains people pleasers!
Hey Maya! I listened to all of your songs. This is by far the best one. Please make more in this style, because this is really where you shine. My second favorite from you is "prophecy".
I'm not neurodivergent but I struggle with social anxiety and so I really try to be like everyone else so I don't stick out and embarrass myself I'm constantly reviewing my day what I said/did wrong and how I can adjust it to be "perfect" so I can please everyone
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