Creativity Quote by Alice Cooper

Cooper sketches a paranoia that feels less like sci-fi than backstage reality: the audience (or the industry, or the culture at large) doesn’t just watch you, it samples you. “They pick all of us out” lands like a casting call and a police lineup at the same time, collapsing fandom into surveillance. The genius is in the grammar of faceless power: “they” stays unnamed, omnipresent, interchangeable. That vagueness is the point. If the system can’t be located, it can’t be argued with.

“Computerize” does heavy work here. Cooper isn’t offering a technical complaint so much as a mood: the creeping sense that taste has been outsourced. What used to be a sweaty, human verdict in a club now runs through filters, categories, and risk calculations. It’s not just that people judge; it’s that judgment gets processed, logged, monetized, and returned as an algorithmic yes/no. The line “decide if they like it or don't like it” mocks the false clarity of binary preference, as if art is a swipe and not an encounter.

Then he twists the knife with insecurity on the other side of the screen: “they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw.” The watchers aren’t confident connoisseurs; they’re anxious consumers, trained to double-check their own reactions against whatever the system tells them they should have felt. Cooper, a master of theatrical shock, implies the real horror isn’t the spectacle onstage. It’s a culture that needs a second viewing to confirm permission to be moved.