HOUSE OF THE UNWANTED
A company of performers nobody would cast, who built their own stage
vex on it
after hoursHonest use case: People who have felt rejected or underestimated, particularly in creative fields, and those who find strength in community.
Exhibit: “We were not rejected. We were misfiled. There is a difference and it took us all our lives to learn it.”
style
the numbers
- bpm
- 129
- key
- A# major
- energy
- 0.68
- dance
- 0.94
- valence
- 0.54
- vocal at
- 6.3s
- length
- 2:15
- words
- 202
- clichés
- 0
- language
- En
most sung: “house” ×8 · “unwanted” ×8 · “asking” ×5
shared with the crate: 76 other songs use “door” · 35 other songs use “rain”
lyrics
(they would not have us) They would not have me in the chorus, they would not have me at the back Too tall, too odd, too loud, too much of whatever I am And I stood outside a stage door in the rain in 2019 And I decided to stop asking men in offices for a room So we found a warehouse And we found each other And we did not audition a single person, we just opened the door House of the unwanted, house of the unwanted Everybody they sent home, we kept House of the unwanted, house of the unwanted And we are not asking any more, we are not asking any more There is a boy here who was told he could not dance at eleven And he opens the second act and eight hundred people stand up (massed voices, no music) We were not rejected. We were misfiled. There is a difference and it took us all our lives to learn it. House of the unwanted, house of the unwanted Everybody they sent home, we kept House of the unwanted, house of the unwanted And we are not asking any more, we are not asking any more (we kept!)