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This ones called 'Maggy' and is my efforts at a story based country rock song. I got the idea for it when I was listening to a song bt "The Wallows" that had a line, 'why are girls in songs always 17' and I thougt that was true as shit. You always here about 17 year old girls in songs, so I decided to write a song about a girl who isn't 17. No, shes 18.

But really though, after that lyric making me want to make it, I was mostly inspired by the music of Kings Of Leon and Joe Pug for this one. I didn't try to write it as a country rick song, but that's usually where my more serious effort songs end up going.

I've never known anyone personally that went through this scenario, but I've heard many stories from women who've felt like they were forced into porn by lack of options and need for money. I wanted to try and capture how that feels from a more outside, more cycnical point of view. One that pretty much tries to say, "well what did she think would happen? We told her." Knowing full well the manipulation at play. It's about the lies of the big city dream, that if you can just get there, you can make it. It's about how we go to low places when we feel cornered, and about how shamelessly people take advantage of those sunken folk.

All in all, this song is about a girl who was desperate for money so she could live. All in all, this is meant to be a 'fuck capitalism' song.

Keep an eye out on my YouTube for an upcoming live performance of it!

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Hey people! This is the demo of my second song Bitter Butters

This one's quite the departure from the clubby type song my first demo is meant to be, and this one instead is taking the lines of a more techno, industrial mechanical, jazzy sort of vibe.

I was really inspired by the EP "Gator On Bike On Paper' by Rare Demo" for this one, especially the track Catpiss

Believe it or not, the message of this song is actually quite political! At least in origin. I got the idea for the track when I got sick of seeing people call Trump and Biden the same kind of bad. I understand neither of them are good, but to say they're the same is small minded. Not mention ignores the "every penny counts" saying I think would do people goodbto live by. Sure, it's small progress with Biden, but it's better than no progress.

With this song I'm attempting to attack the mindset that "everything must be good all the way or it be banished" to paraphrase. The sort of mentality that leads people to see "very small progress" and "no progress" as equally bad, as in their mind "big progress" is the only acceptable way forward. Which as I said, is a small minded way to think.

So with these lyrics I'm trying to showcase how the effort shouldn't be ignored. Yeah the butter you made at the party was shit, but you still made butter with the boys. Sure the popcorn at the movie was shit, but I still got to hang out with people I like. Sure having to skip sponser reads is tedious but at least I don't have 50 second unskippable cutscene before I can learn how to treat a wound correctly.

This song is about the appreciation of the small things, the effort it takes to do something, and making fun of people that would rather sit in mud and wait for it to dry than move out of the puddle themselves.

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