the track switches tonight at midnight (tomorrow night), but i'm thinking about it now...
not my most insightful track, in either the sense of being purposefully or accidentally insightful. it's catchy, though - fun as far as silly 90s punk rock goes.
the most substantial thing is probably the nwa reference, in the sense that it's something you wouldn't expect - and foreshadows me moving in that direction.
the drums were played by recording myself rocking out with a pen on a wood table.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL3knvasuwQ&list=PL3JSjmqp0cbsN9vZEYmFDghfz0V6hWbLI
well, actually, i should add a few more words because it otherwise seems rather pointless.
i was at the time talking about starting a punk band with a friend of mine, named matt. there was actually a song recorded with matt on vocals and bass and myself on guitar (i can't remember the name of it, and don't have a copy of it). the name of the project was meant to be "second class citizens", with an acronym stylized as 2CC. nothing else came of it.
but i had initially written this song for that purpose and demoed it out to show him. that kind of explains why it's different than the other stuff on these early demos.
eventually, it became clear that the project wasn't developing, so i just added my own vocals. as the song was meant for matt to sing on, i didn't have any thematic concept attached to it. so, what i did was take random words out of the dictionary. it was honestly just a close-your-eyes-pick-a-page-pick-a-word process. then, i added the chorus in reaction to the random dictionary process.
....except the bridge. that's the nwa reference.
i guess you could maybe pull something accidentally insightful out of it regarding my view of lyrics in mainstream punk (or grunge) at the time. it could be interpreted as a parody, but i wasn't consciously thinking of it like that.
