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Skyler 404

burnout is boring

21, music student, recovering from burnout; quiet and hard to read offstage, larger than life on it

style

  • emo pop
  • hyperpop
  • futuristic electronic
  • female vocal
  • dark whispery fragile verses
  • explosive layered cathartic chorus
  • deep bass
  • ambient synths
  • glitch textures
  • orchestral strings

the numbers

bpm
123
key
F major
energy
0.68
dance
0.90
valence
0.48
vocal at
33.6s
length
3:17
language
En

lyrics

(mm... mm...)

nobody wants the honest version, it does not photograph
there was no collapse, no ambulance, no dramatic final show
i just stopped being able to answer messages in november
(in november)
and then it was march, and people had stopped sending them

that is the whole illness
(the whole illness)
a slow reduction in the number of people who try

burnout is boring
(boring, boring)
it is not a storm, it is a room getting quieter
burnout is boring
and nobody writes songs about admin

my label wanted a comeback narrative, an arc, a redemption
i said there is no arc, there is a woman who slept a lot
they said that is not a story and they were correct
(were correct)
so here is the not-story, at 95 bpm, with a good chorus

if you are in the quiet room
it is not a personality
it is a thing that ends
(build, strings entering, tension climbing)

burnout is boring
(boring, boring)
it is not a storm, it is a room getting quieter
burnout is boring
and nobody writes songs about admin

(anyway...)