Cole Cuchna

And in a world increasingly threatened by automation and artificial intelligence,

The responsibility of preserving this unique human phenomenon can't just fall on the artist alone.

It belongs to all of us.

Through our attention, our financial support, and our willingness to truly engage, we help keep that humanity intact.

Because without it, without that reciprocal relationship, music loses its life.

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Having clearly laid out the album's premise both in sound and lyrics, Random Access Memories continues with its second track, The Game of Love.

Now that phrase should sound a little familiar to you, as it resembles the final lyric on Discovery's Digital Love.

Here's a reminder.

Recall that Digital Love is a song about a dream in which the narrator falls in love with someone while dancing together at a club, only to wake up just before they kiss.

The narrator then lives in the aftermath of this unrequited love, a feeling Toma described as, quote, hurting to be desiring something so much, to be able to see but not touch, unquote.

Thematically, the Game of Love picks up where Digital Love left off, with our robot narrator reeling about a love lost over a slow, sultry, late-night groove.