User Friendly (song)

User Friendly is a critically-acclaimed hit song written and performed by Kerry Eurodyne.

Background
According to the wording of MSM on the MSM.EURODYNE.CORP web page, this song, possibly a single, due to not being attributed to any particular album, this song is not of a recent date. The song vividly depicts a resentful stance of the writer towards the consumerist society around him, bitterly accepting, through weighed irony, that even the product of this very rage will be repackaged and sold to those who will not understand it. Whichever marketing method was used, it commercially succeeded and the song managed to reach a very wide audience, making it a proper legend in the history of rock music.

During 2077, a Japanese lazr pop band Us Cracks have made a deal with MSM without Kerry's knowledge, to record a cover of this particular song as promotion material for their NUSA tour. Whether the idea was to find something contrasting to their own music for shock value, create a bridge between agencies, present themselves as "user-friendly" or call the American consumerism out, has not been declared, but one thing this did manage to achieve is outrage the author in particular. Not only had Kerry felt deceived and betrayed by his own manager who neglected to inform him of the deal due to knowing he would inevitably decline, but the sole occurrence of the writing he put his heart and soul into being recycled by the very industry he battled against, the contemporary, shallow, mass-fabricated seasonal hit production, which he implies absolutely anyone can make, regardless of musical experience. In addition to it, feeling more and more as a product than a human being, he was tormented by the memory of former bandmate, Johnny Silverhand, continuously harassing him about selling out to a corporation, he felt he needed to deal with the problem personally. The events of this plan depend on the decisions of V, the merc he hired for assisting with the plan, and may result in a settlement with Us Cracks and an additional cover of the song, a joint recording with both parties, integrating both genres, followed by a music video.

Should Kerry not accept the excuse of the ordeal being an intentional misinformation planned out by the managers, Us Cracks will disregard his wishes and continue promoting their tour with a cover of his song, media being none the wiser, and Kerry being contractually obliged not to make these events known. However, this will inspire him to stay true to his musical roots and refuse "evolving" into a new era of consumerist genres.

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