Since my last blog entry, I had't actually done much work on music itself. However, I have been writing quite a bit. I have also been working on purely beats and dubstep samples to create the basis for a song that sounds in the same area as 'In the Mix'. However, I will be adding guitar etc to it, which I didn't do to 'In the Mix'.
So anyway, lyrics. I have written 3 new sets, and I am happy with the way they have been written and with the subject matter. They are all about things I didn't know about before at all.
The first set I managed to finish is based around the topic of cyberpunks, and the effects the internet has had on them. To my understanding, in the 90s, cyberpunks were essentially hackers, and would hack into other PCs. However, since the internet became mainstream and secure, it became far more difficult for them to attack others. This generation has slowly dwindled in numbers - apparently, and there are few left. These cyberpunks were/are very left-wing, against the conservative elite and big corporations. So I wrote some lyrics centred around their cyberculture. The song itself is entitled 'Turn on, Boot up, Jack in' which is a quote by a cyberpunk, who originally used a similar term for art, but replaced the end with 'Jack in' in relation to PCs and hacking.
Turn on, Boot up, Jack in
Cyberpunks will graffiti your polluted firewall,
The protagonists of a different era,
Cyberart proclaiming the wired elite's downfall,
Out-of-date post-moderists
Cyberdelica is ruined by the corporations,
The problem people sustain it,
Cyberculture blocked the pc anarchist,
Clinging to the cult of the individualist,
Wriiten in April 2011
As I was writing this set of lyrics, I came across the term 'Dot-com Bubble' and thought it was a cool title. So I read into that, and before I had completed Turn on, Boot up, Jack in, I had finished a set of lyrics for 'Dot-com Bubble'. I am particularly pleased with these lyrics, as they are not only very factual but colourful, but also I'd say well written. This song is all about an ecomonic boom that was created by small web-based companies. It made trillions in a short period of time. However, it didn't last, and many of these companies became bankrupt, etc.
Dot-com Bubble
Stocks, and shares, and shit,
Footsie one hundred and the rest,
Economic prosper from it's popularity,
Peaks and soars, tip of the millennium iceberg,
Nasdaq, rubbed metaphorical hands with glee,
Mosaic, browse and boom, that easy,
You dot-com companies, you rose, you fell,
Growth over profits; a day in the sun, a life in a cell,
By 2000, the bubble burst, pop,
It popped you bad, bankruptcy and fraud,
Warring tycoons and CEOs melting down,
Liquidated and now buried in the ground,
Boohoo, badaboom to the boo.com
Alliteration and onomatopiac companies gone,
No more geocities, no funding for construction,
Goodbye and farewell.com
Written April 2011
I also had started a song, which had changed several times. I wanted to write about cyberbullying. It is a very troubling topic for the internet, and wanted to write about this from a very horrible story, to make the impact greater.
I found a story about a young girl called Megan, who befriended a young man named Josh on myspace. He was very nice to her and said he had just moved to the area. He made her feel wonderful, but then began to turn nasty, insulting her etc. It got to the point where one day, she couldn't take anymore and she hung herself in her closet. What makes this story worse is that the boy was a grown woman, who lived in the same area as the girl. The woman and her daughter didn't like this girl, and so wanted to bully her through a sockpuppet (or fake person on the internet). This woman, Lori Drew, was not imprisoned for this, and that sickens me. It is such a sad story, and I didn't know what angle to write it from. Here is the finished lyrics.
Sockpuppet
A sockpuppet persona,
Under a masquerade of lies,
Her despicable disgrace,
Behind a boy's eyes
The sockpuppet, an alias called josh,
Raised the girl's spirits with gentle words,
Flipped the coin, darkened her esteem,
A joke, a hoax, an online maim,
The victim was at an age
Where her life bloomed and blossomed,
The sockpuppet's evil game,
Left her motionless, wilting, hanging in a cupboard,
Her final words, are of the vulnerable
Strikes a chord, with even the toughest heart,
"You’re the kind of boy a girl would kill herself over."
The sockpuppet took her life, before it could start
I had the music sitting about that I thought 'Turn on, Boot up, Jack in' would suit. So a good bit after writing these lyrics, I got a day to record, and that's what I did. I had the beats sitting about, and wanted to put a good guitar riff to it, but none were working. I left one in, which slowly goes through each verse. Most of the song is made up of keyboard and paino riffs, used with my fx pedals. It has created a very dark, Thom Yorke/NIN/Aphex Twin sounding song. I then put singing to it, and due to environmental constraints and also just because I wanted to try it, I sang the song very quietly with some hugh pitched backing vocals. The singing is again, reminiscent of Thom Yorke. Finished the song, and it sounds great. I may also record a version with screaming singing and see if it sounds better. Turn on, Boot up, Jack in, Generation Z, Clean Slate Program, and cover version of Radiohead's 'Videotape' have all been put up on youtube.
More songs will, undoubtly, be worked on. That's 16 Anonymous songs. All good. Oh, also got a bandcamp page that I am adding to at the moment.
Watch this space,
Wullae
www.youtube.com/wullaewrightmusic
www.wullaewright.bandcamp.com
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