Grammy-nominated artist, activist and musician Aaron Lee Tasjan has released a new track titled “Science Friction” that addresses “the tensions between science and society, fact and fraud and progress and peril.” Tasjan looks at our current society and “offers some sobering answers as to how we may have gotten here.” “Science Friction” was co-written with Denny Lloyd.

Across the release of five albums, Tasjan has never been one to shy away from controversial subjects. Broken down into three separate vignettes, “Science Friction” opens with the statement, “Man control the weather / Man control the women / Man made the system we all have to live in,” establishing human dominance and the need for control.

Tasjan says:

’Science Friction’ is one story of where we are today in modern day America. The song starts with man and his desire to rule over all. Man is perhaps the ultimate underdog. He probably shouldn’t have survived let alone triumphed over so many adversities to end up at the top of the food chain. Verse two is a snapshot of a wayward explorer’s supposed discovery of America which should have lead worldly people of the time to disprove the flat earth theory and yet, there are people still believing in that today. Outliers they may be, but living in America in 2026 makes me wonder if we can really be so dismissive of people championing fringe ideas? The final verse taps into the time-honored tradition of the use of wealth and power as a means of control and exclusion.

The subject matter of each of these lyrical vignettes continue to play out in modern society where they are rubbing together and causing the process of friction to occur within ourselves, amongst each other and in the natural world. ‘Science Friction’ is a song that thinks about how it feels to live in these times when you’re a person who believes in the inherent good of humanity.