My Perfect Robot Friend

by @tcelliott

Liner Notes

#songfight #soundscape

Kind of a combination of a collab from a few years ago involving a computer that kills humans to protect them and 1984 (A Merman...) by Jimi Hendrix filtered through the off kilter soundscape tableau of Madame Breathehard

Lyrics

Glorious companions on the sea at night
Basking underneath the ancient glow of starlight
Drifting on the waves of the moon and rotation
Seeking grit and rubble from the Earth's formation

I don't want to be your superstar, no, no
I don't want to be your superstar

Satellite instructions say to turn up ahead
But we'll go past the great white shark instead
The northern star is dimming says my AI friend
As she gives instructions to the end

I don't want to be your superstar, no, no
I don't want to be your superstar
I don't want to be your superstar, no, no
I don't want to be your superstar

So down and down and down and down and down and down we go
where we'll stop I guess nobody knows
The arctic stains from silver blue and turns blood red
My perfect robot friend says we're all dead

I don't want to be your superstar, no, no
I don't want to be your superstar
I don't want to be your superstar, no, no
I don't want to be your superstar
I don't want to be your superstar, no, no
I don't want to be your superstar
I don't want to be your superstar, no, no
I don't want to be your superstar
I don't want to be...
I don't want to be...
I don't want to be your superstar, no, no
I don't want to be your superstar

Comments

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This has DEVO and Neil Young vibes (I still find it amazing that they worked together) along the lines of Neil's album "Trans" (which is one of my favourites). It's big and brash and shouty and that refrain of "down and down and down and down and down and down" makes for a great hook. Huge fun!
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Right from the start digging the industrial overtones, the whole soundscape really puts you into the futuristic space of robot AIs. The repeated lines from the perspective of the robot are grisly and almost too much but really conveys the dystopian outlook of that character, and the perspective switch is great. The story as a whole is interesting to me, and leaves a lot unsaid that my brain really wants to answer.
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