ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Arielko

SONG: We Do What We're Told (Milgram’s 37)FROM: So

Video info:

Created entirely from images and videos in midjourney, this video takes its cue from the song’s title and points to the fact that we are constantly being told what to do, by the multitude of signs and buttons we are confronted with constantly. The video ends with where this is all leading us, and ultimately with our inherent choice and responsibility of what to do about it. Just like the subjects of Milgram’s famous experiment, we need to decide.

Song info:

We Do What We’re Told (Milgram’s 37) is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album So, released in May 1986.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Peter Gabriel.

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

‘In a way, with this track, I was trying to understand how we as a species do truly horrible and barbaric things to each other during situations like wartime. Originally I called it Milgram’s 37 and then it became We Do What We’re Told which was just the chorus repeated again and again. When we played it live, I used to ask people to sing along with the chorus. I think some people got the irony but not everyone.’
-pg