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HONEY PISTOL

MASCARA EMERGENCY

Left a town of nine hundred people and turned all of them into characters

style

  • theatrical pop
  • camp
  • huge eighties-inflected synths
  • belted powerhouse female vocal
  • dramatic key changes
  • glitter and irony
  • american accent
  • funny and enormous
  • american accent
  • campy

the numbers

bpm
129
key
G minor
energy
0.69
dance
0.94
valence
0.61
vocal at
7.7s
length
3:07
language
En

lyrics

(darling... get the tissues)
(this is not a drill)

You dumped me by the canapés
In front of half the town
My lashes took it worst of all
They're sliding slowly down
(down, down, tragically down)

Somebody call my stylist
Somebody dim the light
(she's going through it!)
I will survive this evening
But my face will lose the fight

Mascara emergency! (whoo!)
Code black down both my cheeks
Mascara emergency!
I'll be dramatic for two weeks
Mascara emergency! (someone hold her!)
Mascara emergency!
I cry in waterproof — allegedly
(allegedly!)

I fixed my face in the bathroom line
A stranger said, be strong
I told her, honey, I am fine
Then wept through her whole song
(the hand dryer roars)

Mascara emergency! (whoo!)
Code black down both my cheeks
Mascara emergency!
I'll be dramatic for two weeks
Mascara emergency! (get the gown!)
Mascara emergency!

To the man who broke my heart tonight...
(boo! boo!)
You lost a queen. I lost a lash.
Only one of us can be reapplied
(she's back, baby!)

Mascara emergency! (HIGHER!)
Code black down both my cheeks
Mascara emergency!
I'll be dramatic for two weeks
Mascara emergency!
Mascara emergency!

(reapply! reapply!)
I look incredible when I grieve
(she really does)