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VIOLETTE MACHINE

Page Eleven

Wears the costume to the supermarket because the costume is not a costume

style

  • theatrical dance pop
  • maximalist electropop
  • huge four-on-floor
  • dramatic synth stabs
  • powerful female belt
  • operatic and camp
  • layered vocal stacks
  • glitter and menace
  • american accent
  • standard radio arrangement

the numbers

bpm
129
key
E minor
energy
0.68
dance
0.94
valence
0.59
vocal at
4.1s
length
2:41
language
En

lyrics

(darling)

Page eleven of a regional newspaper is a very specific altitude
Not the front, not the arts pages, page eleven, next to a raffle
That is exactly where my mother's attention lives
(attention lives)
Nine years of national reviews and she was reading about raffles

It is not that she did not care (did not care)
It is that I was not in the correct newspaper

Page eleven
(eleven, eleven)
The single most important publication in my career
Page eleven
Next to a church raffle and a photograph of a dog

I have been on television. I have been in three broadsheets.
None of it registered because none of it was local
Fame is not national, darling, fame is your mother's district
(your mother's district)
Everything else is just a very expensive way to be a stranger

(exposed, no production)
She has the clipping in her handbag. Not framed. Carried.
Nine years of silence and now she carries it around.
I would trade every review for that handbag.
(EXPLOSION BACK)

Page eleven
(eleven, eleven)
The single most important publication in my career
Page eleven
Next to a church raffle and a photograph of a dog

(darling.)