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Monsters

from Slutlips by Catherine Corelli

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‘Monsters’ had its core old sections written back in 2006. The cello marcato riff that kicks in under the rapping part was originally written for an online game project but never made it far. This cello riff remained untouched for a decade and then suddenly acquired depth and a whole new meaning in the context of ‘Slutlips’.

The jazz intro was written by Alan Wild Matthews. Interestingly, it was one of the most complex sections arrangement-wise on the entire album.

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SC.6 INT. Chicago bar. Late evening

The track opens with Midnight Chicago Jazz Band
Performing Scapegod live on stage preceded by a voice
Saying "Meanwhile..."

Drunk Laura just arrived and wants the band to play
The band just left. Daisy is not as drunk, she's comfortably
Seated and has been hanging out for awhile

Daisy: [drunk as well, in a tired voice, trying to shout out
To Laura that doesn't listen though]
Oh c'mon, Laura! Shut your damn piehole!

[Laura goes on around the place much to the amusement of the audience]

Daisy: [in a more relaxed voice, rather to herself]
Santa's in town
Bunny's in the Un... [hiccups] Underworld
Alice... in Wonderland...
[giggles]
Where's Stan?

At this point, the track starts
Alice quotes the Mulholland Drive movie all the way
Through the track as she raps and also points out to
The fact that the monsters are real towards the ending

Alice:

[intro]
No hay banda. No hay orchestra

Yo! My name is Alice, and I remember everything

[verse]
This is all a tape recording, and yet we can hear a band
If you wanna hear a clarinet don't fret, get your headset
And get a taste of my blood and sweat. Listen!
Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel the dread?
Remember what I've said?

[verse]
It's all a tape recording, it's all a tape recording
Can you hear it? Can you hear it? Are you that prone?
If you really wanna get it go ahead and listen to that muted trombone, there it is!
And a trumpet too! Just waiting to be heard in that chord by you!
Samples and stuff is all I got. And it's all wack and fucked up, man, it's shot

There is no band band band!
No hay banda, no hay orchestra

[verse]
It's all hidden in my head in a memory
Kinda creepy stuff there but yet it's me
It's me in this. It's this debris
C'mon let's see, can we dig up a cello and not disagree
On what we hear, what we know, what we think we'll see!
On what you thought, what you sought, what I couldn't be!

[hook]
There is no band but the monsters are real!
But the monsters are real!

It's all a tape-tape it's all a tape
It's all a tape-tape it's all a tape recording

Thank you, David!
I'm quoting Mulholland Drive
I'm not like Em, and I'm not Jay Z
My name is Alice, and I'm just being me

T-t-tape t-t-tape recording
No hay banda, no hay orchestra

The track closes with the same eerie voice saying:
"Lately I've been filled with a knowledge that the killer
Will strike again..."

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from Slutlips, released February 4, 2017

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Catherine Corelli Jeffersonville, Kentucky

singer-songwriter, producer, painter. Russian born American southerner.

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