{"id":2236120,"date":"2026-01-15T15:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2236120"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:50:03","slug":"spencer-thomas-says-the-world-is-fucked-and-i-love-you-in-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/spencer-thomas-says-the-world-is-fucked-and-i-love-you-in-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Thomas Says &#8216;The World Is Fucked and I Love You&#8217; in New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;The World Is Fucked and I Love You,&#8221; in all its Eighties synth glory, announces the Mississippi songwriter&#8217;s new album, <em>Cynical Vision<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/spencer-thomas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_spencer-thomas\" data-tag=\"spencer-thomas\">Spencer Thomas<\/a> sets the phrase that many of us have been repeating these days to glorious Eighties synth sounds in his new single, \u201cThe World Is Fucked and I Love You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOver a drum machine beat programmed by co-producer Nate Nelson and a one-man-band orchestra of acoustic guitar, bass, and synth played by Thomas, the Mississippi artist frets about pollution and landfills, slanted news and rebuked science, and the fear that WWIII is right around the corner. But even if all those calamities come to pass, hey, Thomas still loves his partner.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spencer Thomas - The World Is F*cked And I Love You (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V8eF8KSDVYc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWhile \u2018The World Is Fucked and I Love You\u2019 rings true in 2025, I wrote it back in 2021. I guess the ever present pandemic and increasingly unusual weather patterns was a bad combination with living alone and ingesting a lot of news. I remember hearing about our trash being dumped in landfills in other countries. I remember thinking about our increasing political unrest,\u201d Thomas says in a statement. \u201cI remember thinking the only reason that we\u2019re still able to survive is the love of other people. How it\u2019s important to tell other people we love them while this uncertainty looms in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThomas says he took inspiration for the song from \u201cTrouble Waiting to Happen,\u201d a track off <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-crackup-and-resurrection-of-warren-zevon-243661\/\">Warren Zevon\u2019s<\/a> 1987 album <em>Sentimental Hygiene<\/em>. \u201cThe 80s synth flair with current events created a palette that I\u2019ve never explored before and I just wanted people to resonate with the \u2018doom &amp; gloom,\u2019 but also love through it, as well. Let\u2019s recognize the fear we keep shoving out of the way, express love for each other and move forward,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA multi-instrumentalist and former member of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/futurebirds-carl-broemel-athens-georgia-live-album-1234979622\/\">Futurebirds<\/a>, Thomas dropped a music video for \u201cThe World Is Fucked and I Love You\u201d directed by Cody Rogers. The song also announces his forthcoming album <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/strollingbonesrecords.com\/spencer-thomas-cynical\">Cynical Vision<\/a><\/em>, produced by Thomas and Nate Nelson at Tweed Recording in Athens, Georgia, and due March 20 via Strolling Bones Records.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The World Is Fucked and I Love You,&#8221; in all its Eighties synth glory, announces the Mississippi songwriter&#8217;s new album, Cynical Vision Spencer Thomas sets the phrase that many of us have been repeating these days to glorious Eighties synth sounds in his new single, \u201cThe World Is Fucked and I Love You.\u201d Over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2236121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[432627],"class_list":["post-2236120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-spencer-thomas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Spencer-Thomas-Says-The-World-Is-Fucked-and-I-Love.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236122,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236120\/revisions\/2236122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2236121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}