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Mango

Ninety-Two Saves

Cyberpunk creative director who is less a manager than the studio itself

style

  • electronic pop
  • lo-fi cyberpunk beats
  • female vocal breathy and intimate with slight rasp
  • whispered verses opening to a belted chorus
  • catchy hooks
  • clean but not sterile production
  • slight lo-fi texture
  • space for vocals
  • modern and genre-fluid
  • swedish-accented english

the numbers

bpm
152
key
A# major
energy
0.69
dance
0.91
valence
0.55
vocal at
6.7s
length
7:59
language
En

lyrics

(mm)

The list is on a text file with no formatting at all
Ninety-two lines, each one a date and a sentence
"Pipeline broke, four days of work, eleven minutes"
(eleven minutes)
Nobody has read it and nobody is going to

It is not a grievance list (a grievance list)
It is proof, for me, that the invisible thing happened

Ninety-two saves
(ninety-two)
A career made entirely of things that didn't go wrong
Ninety-two saves
And the only evidence is a text file

Someone asked what I actually do here, at a party, kindly
And I said "I keep things running" and they said "oh, ops"
Och jag sa ja, for det ar enklare an sanningen
(enklare an sanningen)
The truth needs ninety-two examples and a whiteboard

Entry ninety-three is going in tonight.
Someone's render. Three in the morning. Eleven minutes.
They'll wake up and it'll just be there, like weather.

Ninety-two saves
(ninety-two)
A career made entirely of things that didn't go wrong
Ninety-two saves
And the only evidence is a text file

(ninety-three...)