Joe Monday
This Artist Recorded Audio From His Own Firing—Then Remixed It Into a Banger
Many musicians channel pain and anguish through music, taking life’s various traumas and negative experiences and turning them into sonic works of art. Though it’s unclear if one of those negative experiences—getting fired from a day job—has led to a vast amount of musical inspiration for most, it has for electronic music producer Joe Monday. While the experience of getting fired might give one inspiration to create art, Monday took things a step further thanks to the fact that he had an actual audio recording of the incident. He used that recording to create “Me Getting Fired,” a “remix” of his dismissal from his former job. The video’s background image portrays a Yandere-style Monday and his former boss, as quotes from the audio recording appear ...
