There’s no other way to describe Demand Perfection by Reetoxa aside from the fact that it feels like meeting one of the men who wandered out of the movie Materialists. The one who’s walking head high with impossible standards, a fat wallet, and the belief that love is just another luxury purchase.
At the heart of Melbourne band Reetoxa is Jason McKee. His 30 years of songwriting eventually led to producer Simon Moro, a collaboration that now brings Demand Perfection into your Spotify playlists.
A wave of feedback tears through the intro, like it’s bracing you for the kind of person you’re about to meet. Then the guitars kick the door open with riffs that sound like a smirk, cocky enough to roll your eyes. And once the line, “Got money, I demand perfection,” drops, you’ll know it wasn’t just confidence—but entitlement at its loudest.
There’s something so unhinged about the way it’s written. They somehow managed to sound funny, pathetic, and believable all at once, until it piles up and starts to make you feel uncomfortable. To make matters worse, the arrangement never lets you off the hook.
For a song obsessed with perfection, its greatest strength is exposing how easily ego disguises itself in wealth and designer clothes. It’s loud and smug, the kind of rock song that parodies modern vanity while sounding real, real good.
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