You’re a rabbit that no longer runs
A cop planting evidence just for the fun
You’re lusting for something that no one has done
And you’re on to something now
The mythology of the “girlboss” is a triumph of propaganda: an illusion that recasts exploitation as “empowerment.” Under the banner of liberation, corporate systems have merely refined their mechanisms of control, persuading women to internalize the very hierarchies that subjugate them. The rhetoric of “having it all” obscures the fact that labour conditions have worsened – not improved – for most. Multilevel marketing schemes and performative empowerment slogans serve the same purpose as any ideology of domination: to mask the transfer of wealth upward, to sanctify self-exploitation as progress, and to transform systemic inequity into a personal failure to hustle harder.
MIDNIGHTCHOIR (New Yorkers Patrick Bobilin and Sarah Simon) tear into the corporate catechism of empowerment-as-exploitation with sharpened synths and a sense of dark humour that cuts cleaner than cynicism ever could. It’s a record that looks the workplace in the eye and asks: what did ambition cost you, and who sent the bill?
Girls, the centerpiece of Debtors Disco, transforms the empty language of self-advancement into a confession booth for the burned-out and overworked. Bobilin delivers his lines like leaked corporate memos, each one tightening into an indictment. Simon answers with the poise of an oracle from the HR department of hell, murmuring that power is just “a four letter word / for something that you can hold.” The track dismantles the illusion that control can be purchased or that freedom arrives through promotion…until it stops feeling like social commentary and starts reflecting back as a funhouse mirror under harsh fluorescent lights.
Filmed partly outside the Federal Reserve, the video for Girls, co-directed guerrilla-style by Bobilin and Alice Teeple, captures this tension with sharp, theatrical precision. Amid the marble monoliths of the Financial District, the duo performs within the architecture that enshrines inequality. The setting becomes pure satire: prophets of equality standing on the steps of capitalism’s temple, transforming it into an altar for the false religion of self-optimization.
Watch the video for “Girls” below:
Debtors Disco lands like a fluorescent manifesto from the cubicle inferno. Elsewhere on the album, songs like No Country and Keep Your Revolution stretch that same tension across punk, pop, and post-goth forms. The album’s humour is acidic, its heart still beating beneath the machinery. When the closer finally fades, it leaves the aftertaste of espresso and overtime – an anthem for anyone who’s realized the dream was just another job description. In the end, MIDNIGHTCHOIR stage liberation’s postmortem, and they do it with a grin.
Working with Ben Greenberg (Drab Majesty, Uniform), the band found a kindred spirit who helped amplify both the light and gravity in their sound. Fresh off a performance alongside French New Wave legends Martin Dupont, MIDNIGHTCHOIR continue to carve their place in the lineage of artists who turn disillusionment into dance.
Debtors Disco arrives on all streaming platforms today, followed by a release show on November 7th at Alphaville in Brooklyn with None Shall Remain, 12090 A.D., and DJ Alex English. Get your tickets here.
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