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    "id": 3635719,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3635719/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-03-30T21:08:30-07:00",
    "show": 66324,
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    "song": "Sobredosis Electoral",
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    "artist": "Señora Biónica",
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    "album": "La Señora Biónica tiene razón",
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    "release_date": "2026-03-20",
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    "comment": "“Sobredosis Electoral” is a title with built-in static. It suggests saturation, fatigue, frenzy, and the surreal excess that electoral culture can produce when every message arrives already amplified. Señora Biónica released the song on March 20, 2026 as part of the album La Señora Biónica tiene razón, issued by Subterfuge and distributed by Altafonte, and that placement gives it the feel of a highly deliberate contemporary statement rather than a stray topical single. The artist’s recent release trail also shows a fast-building catalog around similarly charged, pop-literate titles, which makes “Sobredosis Electoral” feel like part of a wider sensibility tuned to media overload and modern anxiety.\nThe song’s strength is in how vividly the title frames the emotional condition it names. An overdose is not just excess but the point where excess becomes bodily, where public noise enters the nervous system. That image gives the track its force. Even without overreading the song as literal commentary, “Sobredosis Electoral” feels like it belongs to the atmosphere of permanent campaigning, algorithmic argument, and political exhaustion. The phrasing is sharp, almost darkly comic, but the underlying feeling is real. It is a smart title for a pop-leaning alternative song because it turns a broad social condition into something immediate and visceral. The result is music that sounds contemporary not because it chases novelty, but because it understands the emotional texture of the present tense.\nListen: https://open.spotify.com/track/6NWt0s3NHkWxbjImkR5pdz",
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