Theo Hakola - "THE DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT"

song from the album GODDAMN MY HUMANS (2026)
contact/info: www.theohakola.com

dancer: Billie Chermann

The Dunning-Kruger voices: Katja Petrowskaja, Océane Mozas,
Thuy Nguyen, Delphine Ciampi, B. Villain, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Maya Akhrasse, Natalia Reyes, Dinara Drukarova, T. Mladenovitch,
Maria Filippou, Paola Comis

drums: Tatiana Mladenovitch,
voice, guitar, bass: T. Hakola

THE DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT
(T.Hakola/T.Hakola)

The man is unfinished, an overgrown boy
with little sense of self, hardly more than a ploy
Ever desperate for approval, he blows his own bugle
to blind and bamboozle the duck soup hoi palloi

Never saw the other as anything but a means
to sate a gnawing hunger for validation and acclaim
The honor, grace and vision firing our founders’ dreams
are beyond his cognition, too great a strain for his brain

Afraid he’s not loved, he proclaims that he is
Afraid he’s not smart, he claims to be a whiz
Longing for veneration, he spins tales of his feats
Ever craving admiration, he pleads for more in his tweets

HE’S NOT SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW STUPID HE IS

Richard Nixon couldn’t tell the truth
George Washington couldn’t tell a lie
Donald Trump can’t tell the difference
Whoopie… we’re all gonna die

Not sharp enough to grasp just how dull he is,
he lacks the wiles to mask how he’s got no cerebral fizz
With so few words to sling, the man’s no Kennedy or King
no Obama, Twain or Lincoln, the man never learned to sing

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence
than does knowledge,” is what old Darwin once said
“I know more about grass than any human being,”
are words that once spilled from this President’s head
oh, dumb is the tongue, and dark… dark is the dread

“They're eating the dogs” “They’re eating the cats.”
“Nobody knows what magnets are.”
“You spell us US. Nobody’s ever thought of that.”
“I’m the most successful person ever to run…by far.”
“If Jesus came down and was the vote-counter,
I would win California, okay?”
“Supposing you brought the light inside the body,
through the skin or in some other way.”
“We’ve cut drug prices by… 1,500%”
“President Obama… He’s the founder of ISIS.”
“She wants to get rid of cows.” “We have to have Greenland.”
“My IQ is one of the highest.”

IL N’EST PAS ASSEZ INTELLIGENT POUR
COMPRENDRE À QUEL POINT IL EST BÊTE