Tony Frissore channels funk and accountability in "Bad Strategies"

Tony Frissore's "Bad Strategies" is a tightly wound funk track that is as physical as it is thoughtful. Hard-grooved and charging ahead, it lets rhythm be its carrier, putting people on the dance floor even as it forces them to hear lyrics that quietly address brutal truths about power, responsibility, and consequence.

"Bad Strategies" does not blame or get mired in any particular moment. It's a song about what happens when evil leadership meets the people who unthinkingly follow it, and how decisions made outside day-to-day life become footnotes on the street. There's an uneasy subterranean feeling beneath the bounce, a sense that something isn't right. That tension is the emotional engine of the track. It's an illustration of just how uncomfortable it is to live under ill-considered, morally feeble strategies, where principles are tested, and vows are negotiable.

It's in the space between the classic sound of funk and the modern need to merge it with urgency that the song works best. The groove demands shaking bodies first and pondering questions later. "Bad Strategies" never takes a lecture, but it does stick with you, leaving you to consider what it means long after the rhythm has stopped. The storytelling is groove-forward, deploying feel and repetition to demonstrate how bad choices affect the people who didn't have a hand in making them.

"Bad Strategies" is particularly poignant not because it seeks to be so, but because it sheds its skin as a mild societal malaise and becomes sound. It's a song that thinks of funk as a way of thinking  rather than just a style. Tony Frissore spins group anxiety into propulsion with a song that will keep your heart beating and your brain churning.