Look Up

This track was born from a real headline: CDC and Nature studies on screen time and mental health: teens averaging 8.5 hours of daily non-educational screen time, 50% increase in major depressive episodes among adolescents, and meta-analysis of 98,299 participants linking short-form video to cognitive decline. The lyrics weave in verified details — Teens average 8.5 hours of non-educational screen time daily; Tweens average 5.5 hours of non-educational screen time daily; Adolescents 50% more likely to experience major depressive episode than 20 years ago. Majik delivers the report through rock, letting the data hit as hard as the beat. Lines like "The content's fifteen seconds but the damage seems to last" anchor the track in specifics that generic coverage misses. The mood — frustrated, building, anthemic — reflects the emotional reality behind the numbers. Every Majik's Studio news track exists to make you feel the story, not just read it.

[verse 1] Eight and a half hours every single day That's the average teen on a screen, non-educational play Five and a half for the tweens, ten to twelve years old CDC reported it and let the numbers hold Nine and ten year olds who spend more time inside the glow Show up with depression, anxiety in tow Aggression, inattention, every marker on the chart The more they scroll the further that the needle pulls apart Ninety-eight thousand people in the meta-study pool Short-form video is shrinking every cognitive tool Attention span, inhibitory control declining fast The content's fifteen seconds but the damage seems to last [chorus] Look up, look up Put the screen down for a minute Look up, look up There's a world and you're still in it Look up, look up Eight and a half hours gone today Look up, look up Before it takes your mind away [verse 2] Fifty percent more likely for a major episode Depressive, adolescent, twenty years and the numbers showed Thirty percent more likely to take their own life That's the stat that cuts the deepest, that's the sharpest knife One point nine million people in the data set they ran Social media and depression, hand in hand in hand Anxiety and stress go up with every added hour And the algorithm feeds them what will most devour Their confidence, their body image, sense of self and worth Scroll another thirty minutes, tell me what it's worth The platforms know the research, read the studies too But engagement drives the revenue and revenue will do [chorus] Look up, look up Put the screen down for a minute Look up, look up There's a world and you're still in it Look up, look up Eight and a half hours gone today Look up, look up Before it takes your mind away [bridge] Physical activity and sleep are what they're missing most The mediating factors that the studies diagnosed Replace one hour of scrolling with an hour outside The numbers shift, the markers drop, the symptoms start to hide But try to tell a teenager to put the phone away When every friend they have is on the same app every day It's not a willpower problem, it's a system built to hook And the only way to break it is to finally look [chorus] Look up, look up Put the screen down for a minute Look up, look up There's a world and you're still in it Look up, look up Eight and a half hours gone today Look up, look up Before it takes your mind away [outro] Look up, look up There's a world and you're still in it Look up, look up Before it takes your mind away Look up