Of Love and Lust - OLAL

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Of Love and Lust’s “Somebody’s Watching Me” latest single and video [ https://youtu.be/lO90aq5I3pM ] features chilling spy plane footage from law enforcement in the USA. Gripping new music from OLAL pairs a modern take on Rockwell’s classic with real-world surveillance footage, spotlighting Pima County, Arizona’s controversial spy planes. The band Of Love and Lust (OLAL) has released a new rendition of Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me,” and accompanying music video featuring this exclusive spy plane footage. The music video reveals unnerving aerial surveillance — conducted without a warrant or probable cause — of one of OLAL's songwriters, underscoring growing concerns over privacy and governmental overreach. In OLAL’s take on Somebody’s Watching Me, Rockwell’s haunting lyrics find new resonance amid today’s culture of pervasive monitoring. The music video fuses artistic visuals with actual footage from Pima County Sheriff’s “Survey 1” spy plane, which circled one of the band's songwriter's residence under the pretext of a welfare check. This level of surveillance, typically reserved for major threats, highlights concerns about the purpose and cost of military-style technology in local policing. The footage draws disturbing parallels to Baltimore, Maryland’s controversial 2021 U.S. aerial surveillance program, which the ACLU successfully challenged, leading a Federal Appeals Court to rule such spy planes unconstitutional due to their violation of citizens' Fourth Amendment rights. OLAL’s release comes at a time of heightened scrutiny around law enforcement surveillance tactics worldwide. As communities question the expanding reach of law enforcement surveillance, OLAL’s “Somebody’s Watching Me” raises an urgent reminder: if it’s happening here, it can happen anywhere.