Martin Bernie, known professionally as Pusher, is a musician based in Toronto.
Pusher's song "I Can't Believe It" is about the social problem of lack of access to
affordable housing
Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median, as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index. Most of the literature on ...
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Pusher released their debut album in 2016. Their album ''Paperman'' came out in 2018.
Various commentators have said that Pusher's music has themes of
social consciousness
Social consciousness (or social awareness) is collective consciousness shared by individuals within a society. and
optimism
Optimism is the Attitude (psychology), attitude or mindset of expecting events to lead to particularly positive, favorable, desirable, and hopeful outcomes. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is Is the glass half empty ...
and
nihilism
Nihilism () encompasses various views that reject certain aspects of existence. There have been different nihilist positions, including the views that Existential nihilism, life is meaningless, that Moral nihilism, moral values are baseless, and ...
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While quarantining for COVID-19 Pusher created a lot of music. Pusher grew up in
Merrickville–Wolford
Merrickville–Wolford is a village-status municipality in Eastern Ontario, Canada, located in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville. It spans both shores of the Rideau River.
The current municipality was incorporated on January 1, 1998, ...