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HONEY PISTOL

SMALL TOWN DRAG

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
  • camp

the numbers

bpm
129
key
F major
energy
0.67
dance
0.95
valence
0.61
vocal at
6.4s
length
2:18
words
219
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “town” ×11 · “small” ×9 · “drag” ×9

shared with the crate: 71 other songs use “night”

lyrics

(small town drag)

There were nine hundred people in that town and I knew all of them
And every single one of them had an opinion about my hair
Mrs Dunlop at the post office, who I have made into a character
And who will be furious, and who will absolutely buy a ticket

And I did not escape, that is the wrong verb
I was extremely thoroughly asked to leave
And I have made a very good living out of the eviction

Small town drag, small town drag
I put the whole place in a wig and sold it out in Cleveland
Small town drag, small town drag
Nine hundred people and I am all of them, every night, for money

My mother came to the show in Columbus and sat at the back
And laughed at the character based on her and did not recognise her

Every one of you told me I was too much for that town
And you were completely right and I have been dining out on it for eleven years

Small town drag, small town drag
I put the whole place in a wig and sold it out in Cleveland
Small town drag, small town drag
Nine hundred people and I am all of them, every night, for money

(all of them!)