Emperor’s New Clothes

This song came out of frustration, plain and simple. Frustration with a world that often rewards style over substance, noise over meaning, performance over truth.

We wrote The Emperor’s New Clothes as a response to the growing culture of empty influence, where people build entire identities out of borrowed imagery, fake virtue, and curated perfection, all while the rest of us watch, follow, like, and scroll.

It’s not aimed at one person or group, it’s bigger than that. It’s about how easily we all get swept up in the illusion. How the louder and shinier something is, the more we seem to trust it. And how, in the end, we’re left consuming what’s essentially poisoned air and dirty water, just to stay in the loop.

The term “rice paper people” came to us as a way to describe those fragile, beautiful-looking constructs, people who look impressive from a distance but crumble when you get close.

This song isn’t just critical, it’s a warning, and maybe even a confession. We’ve all played the game in one way or another. But maybe it’s time we stopped pretending the emperor is wearing anything at all.