Veronica Fusaro releases ‘Slot Machine’

Photo Credit - Nils Sandmeier

“TECHNOLOGY IS EVIL!!!” said the blogger as he opened up a Google Doc™ to write a review of a song he heard on Spotify™. He later screamed the same thing as he uploaded the review onto his website and posted a preview of the article on his Instagram™ (don’t forget to give us a follow to read the next article before anybody else).

Two things are true; I am the aforementioned blogger in the opening paragraph, and I am addicted to technology. Quite often when Apple™ sends me that little screen time notification, you’d think it was my full-time job to fuck around on my phone all day. If it was, I’d be a model employee, doing overtime and the lot. But as you may have guessed, that is not my job.

‘Slot Machine’, the new song by Swiss-born artist Veronica Fusaro, touches on some of the negative consequences of technology addiction, in particular, phone addiction. Her first release since her 2023 album ‘All the Colors of the Sky’, ‘Slot Machine’ is quite an upbeat and infectious track, despite the subject matter.

On ‘Slot Machine’, Veronica says: 

“The song is about the little 'magic box' we all carry with us - our phones - and the constant stream of entertainment and information they provide. I realized how dangerously addictive they can be, almost like a slot machine, constantly pulling us in. It tells us what to think, what to wear, what to watch, how to look etc... The song is a reflection on that relationship and how even with all that entertainment, all that content I do not feel content at all. Therefore the: oh no, help me! Why do I feel so down?”

‘Slot Machine’ is the first taste of music from what will be Veronica's sophomore album, set for release in 2025. If this track is anything to go off, the new album will be one to watch out for.

You can listen to ‘Slot Machine’ now.