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VELVET GUILLOTINE

SHE WAS IN THE BOX

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

vex on it

the floor

Honest use case: fans of highly stylized, avant-garde performance art with a dark, theatrical bent.

Exhibit:Box four, stage left, where she has sat for eleven years watching a woman she trained do the thing she used to do.

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
123
key
G minor
energy
0.67
dance
0.88
valence
0.53
vocal at
4.1s
length
1:26
words
158
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “box” ×13 · “stood” ×6 · “before” ×6

lyrics

(dans la loge)

Deuxieme balcon, cote jardin, la loge quatre.
Box four, stage left, where she has sat for eleven years
watching a woman she trained do the thing she used to do.

She was in the box, she was in the box
And she stood up before anybody else
She was in the box, she was in the box
And she stood up before anybody else
She was in the box, she was in the box
And she stood up before anybody else
She was in the box, she was in the box
And she stood up before anybody else

Je voulais qu'elle soit petite. Quatre minutes. C'est tout.
I wanted four small minutes and she gave me an enormous one.

She was in the box, she was in the box
And she stood up before anybody else
She was in the box, she was in the box
And she stood up before anybody else

(la loge...)