The Lowest Bitter - Floating in the Water

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The Lowest Bitter

Floating in the WaterNur Ein XVII

almost 4 years agopassed

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The Lowest Bitter

Entry from Floating in the Water in Nur Ein XVII.

Incorporate at least two different narratives from at least 500 years apart

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Liner SpoilerI'm off to Barcelona tomorrow for a week so I woke up this morning knowing I'd have to get a song out in a day. Luckily inspiration came pretty quickly for this challenge. My two narratives are 4 billion years apart. The chorus (in italics) is from the perspective of LUCA, aka the last universal common ancestor, the most recent common ancestor of all current life on Earth. I've personified this bacterial lifeform and given it a sense of hope and expectation for the future of life on earth. And then the other narrator is a modern day human lamenting just how badly we've fucked everything up and let LUCA down.

As I say I was VERY time limited here and there are things about this I already want to change (I'm not sure the autotune on the chorus was a good idea but I wanted something to distinguish the two voices), but I'm not too upset with this for a quick write.

oh LUCA, look at how far we've swum
oh LUCA, look at all that we've done
oh LUCA, look at what we've become
what we've become

"safe in cytoplasm,
in some hydrothermal chasm
I await actualisation
as a trillion things,
four billion years away
I'm so excited to see what my children make
go forth and procreate!"

oh LUCA, did we do it right?
... feels like we fucked it up
my species of boiling frog
swims in water slowly killing us
apex discreditors,
scum rises to the top
floating in the stagnant water
soon enough, we'll all be sunk

oh LUCA, look at how far we've swum
oh LUCA, look at all that we've done
oh LUCA, look at what we've become
what we've become

"safe in cytoplasm,
in some hydrothermal chasm
I await actualisation
as a trillion things,
four billion years away
I'm so excited to see what my children make
go forth and procreate!"

oh LUCA, did we do it right?
... feels like we fucked it up

Reviews

3 posted notes

Future Boy

Jun 6, 2022Forum post

some of the auto-tuning is awkward and distracting. the abrupt ending works really well.

glennny

Jun 7, 2022Forum post

Cool groove. Super short song. It’s to the point. Good concept. I wish the 2nd verse varied more from the first. It’s so short it feels like an interstitial song on a concept album. I dig it. Nice job!

furrypedro

Jun 8, 2022Forum post

That opening chord progression sounds new for you. Don't often hear those kind of dark modulations in your tracks. The cadence and melody of the first verse, on the other hand, sounds like it was lifted from one of your other songs. The clapping snare sound has a satisfying crunch and I love how you glitch it up slightly throughout. Great builds/swells and drops. I'd like to hear how this could've been if you had more time, as it definitely ends too abruptly. What's here is great, but structurally it feels underdeveloped.

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