okay so this one's for anyone who's ever been called "difficult" for refusing to shrink. Seoul Mudang, track ten of Salt. Moon. Thorn. Bone. verse two is her answering every guy in a suit who's ever called her "traditional" when he meant "inconvenient." then the chorus hits and she's just dancing, ancestors and all. word-level karaoke this time, so you can watch the lyrics light up as she sings them. small history thing because we can't help ourselves: mudang meant something different depending who was in power. in Goryeo-era Korea, shamans sat close to the royal court. Joseon's Confucian rulers came in and dropped them to the lowest social rank in the kingdom, grouped in with butchers, their rituals officially branded "vulgar." people kept quietly showing up for the ritual anyway. the chorus is basically that history answering back nine hundred years later. Salt. Moon. Thorn. Bone. is out now on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon. #witchinghourtheater #witchtok #koreanfolklore #shamanism #newmusic