Losing My Religion
There is a new trend on Tiktok that the algorithm thought was right up my alley, and boy was it spot on! There is an account called "There I Ruined It" that does mashups of songs that are horrible and yet somehow so so good. One they recently churned out was R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion with Under the Sea from the Little Mermaid. It is gold! Anyway - as things do on the internet, it evolved! People who have left fundamentalist religious indoctrination are using this sound over footage of themselves and some text explaining why they'd abandoned their faith. Here's me in the corner eating all of this up with a fucking spoon! So many of them are hilarious, heartbreaking, and delightfully affirming to someone who also had questions, doubts, and PTSD after having left a high-control fundamentalist religion. I even made one of my own. I'll link to it at the end. For some reason, memories of my religious upbringing have really been coming for me a lot late...