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VELVET GUILLOTINE

FOUR MINUTES' NOTICE

Trained in opera, thrown out for improvising, and has never once sung a song the same way twice

vex on it

the run

Honest use case: people who like a dramatic narrative and don't mind a short, intense experience

Exhibit:And I was ready, which is the tragedy of it

style

  • theatrical
  • dramatic art pop
  • orchestral stabs
  • harpsichord
  • operatic backing vocals
  • spoken-word passages
  • cabaret menace
  • wide dynamic swings
  • french accent
  • grand and sinister

the numbers

bpm
144
key
F minor
energy
0.66
dance
0.92
valence
0.52
vocal at
1.9s
length
1:46
words
154
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “four” ×11 · “minutes'” ×10 · “notice” ×10

shared with the crate: 76 other songs use “door”

lyrics

(quatre minutes)

Elle est tombee malade a dix-neuf heures vingt.
She was ill at twenty past seven and they came to find me.
Onze ans de couloir et on me donne quatre minutes.
Eleven years in a corridor and four minutes to become someone.

Four minutes' notice, four minutes' notice
A decade in a corridor and then a door
Four minutes' notice, four minutes' notice
And I was ready, which is the tragedy of it

J'ai su chaque respiration. J'avais tout appris d'elle.
I knew every breath because I had learned them all from her.
Ce n'etait pas de l'admiration. C'etait de la surveillance.

Four minutes' notice, four minutes' notice
A decade in a corridor and then a door
Four minutes' notice, four minutes' notice
And I was ready, which is the tragedy of it

Four minutes' notice, four minutes' notice
And I was ready, which is the tragedy of it

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