The Clipping

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 major

energy

0.68

dance

0.92

valence

0.59

vocal at

3.4s

length

2:24

language

En

lyrics

(darling)

Regional newspaper, page eleven, a photograph and forty words
"Local woman causes stir in supermarket" — I am forty-one
Forty-one years old and I am a local woman causing stir
(causing stir)
It is the greatest write-up of my entire life and I mean that

She cut it out (she cut it out)
With scissors. Actual scissors. She owns scissors for this.

The clipping
(the clipping)
An arrow, in biro, and the words "my daughter"
The clipping
Nine years of silence undone by a stationery decision

I have been reviewed by people who understood exactly what I do
Beautiful writing. Perceptive. Framed nothing. Kept nothing.
A woman with scissors and a church newsletter beat all of them
(all of them, darling)
Because she was not describing the work, she was claiming me

(exposed, no production)
I asked her why now, after nine years.
She said "you were on page eleven".
That's it. That's the whole criterion. Page eleven.
(EXPLOSION BACK)

The clipping
(the clipping)
An arrow, in biro, and the words "my daughter"
The clipping
Nine years of silence undone by a stationery decision

(darling.)