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Operation: Wake Up
Pop · 2020 · 10 tracks · 36m

Operation: Wake Up

Mike Posner

A stark, spoken-word concept album exploring fame and isolation. Minimalist production meets brutal first-person storytelling in a mansion-bound psychodrama.

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It's like a dark, spoken-word movie about Mike Posner losing his mind in a mansion.

A claustrophobic and brutally honest descent into the psyche of a man trapped by his own success.

Operation: Wake Up · vs · Mike Posner
Anxious+4.0σ

Anxious saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 36m
01
Introduction
1:56
02
Shave It All Off
4:00
03
Once in a While (Mike Meets Jessie J)
3:59
04
Weaponry
3:13
05
Mike Meets Blackbear at Joe’s Falafel
3:59
06
Let’s Have a Party
2:39
07
Tracy Calls Noelle (Mike’s Ex)
3:40
08
Blackbear Throws a Rager in LA
2:28
09
High & Low (On LSD)
5:43
10
Alone in a Mansion
4:40
Moments Worth Waiting For
The jarring transition from the mundane falafel shop dialogue into the heavy, rhythmic pulse of the music.
The way the production dissolves into disorienting, swirling textures during the LSD-themed climax.
The final, echoing silence of the closing track that leaves the listener alone with the protagonist's isolation.
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