[GLOBAL VOCAL/PRODUCTION RULE — Youthful British male high-tenor, close-mic, playful and sly at first, becoming compulsive and overloaded. All written repetitions, broken consonants and phonetic extensions are HUMAN-SUNG, never robotic stutter FX. Digital noise, static and system messages occur ONLY where bracketed. Keep it bouncy and addictive as the subject darkens.] [VERSE 1 — LIGHT, CHEEKY, COMPULSIVE. Bright bouncing groove; clicks answered by rim taps, mouse percussion and ticking hats. Vocal sounds amused, not frightened yet.] Click click click-kick-ick-k-k-k Tap the mouse like a bad hab-it-it-it Scroll away, then back up, 10 more likes but not enough [Let “Taa-taa-taa-tap” become part of the beat; each syllable gets a percussive response.] Now you gotta Taa-taa-taa-tap that glass Then screenshot the drama, make it last Oh—oh Gossip, Inspo, Insta-lies, eyes on phone, time says goodbye [PRE-CHORUS 1 — LOOP TIGHTENS. Bass and percussion become more repetitive and hypnotic. Keep forward bounce.] Click click click, kick-kick-ick Got a modern addiction called the in-teh-neh-it Tap tap tap, scroll back down Selfies and smiles for the crowds [CHORUS 1 — WIDER AND CATCHIER, NOT LOUDER. Bright house-pop bloom, airy doubles and harmonies. “Validation” and “salvation” should melt naturally into their repeated endings. Keep the dark meaning under a fun melody.] Welcome to the web where we trade worth for validation-un-un And Pop-up ads they designed as salvation-shun-shun oh Follow for follow, like for like, starving your psyche— just one more bite Won’t Change our view or ignore the mentions Cus we’re Losing ourselves in the comment sections [SHORT POST-CHORUS — Pitched clicks and notification tones echo the chorus, then drop into Verse 2.] [VERSE 2 — SHARPER, MORE SARCASTIC. Same buoyant groove, drier vocal and sharper rhythmic delivery. Small pauses after platform names and punchlines.] Hash-tag Brain rot, Tiktok, YouTube and insta Meme’s are the art of the internet trickstah Algorithm trash but you’re still hooked We’re taught copy and paste while they burn our books [BRIDGE — DIGITAL OVERLOAD BEGINS. Strip back harmonic layers and foreground voice, bass pulse, ticking percussion and clicks. Each “click tap” phrase grows denser. Tempo remains fixed; perceived speed increases through subdivision.] Cyber attack on the conscious minds Click tap click and we get redefined Blue light migraines and damaged eyes Click tap click, just one more tie-eye-ime.. [ACCELERATING VOCAL-PERCUSSION BREAK — Human voice performs the click/tap pattern. Percussion mirrors consonants. Begin controlled, then crowd more syllables into the same meter. Do NOT actually speed up BPM.] Click click click tap click tap click Tap tap click tap-t-t-tap-t-tap-t-t-t-t-tap [NEAR-OVERLOAD — “Faster” sharply interrupts. Instrument fragments, notification tones and vocal chops collide. “WORLD WIDE WEB” should progressively break apart into phonetic debris.] Faster, break the world-wide-Wah-Wah—Web-Eb-Eb-Eb [PRE-CHORUS 2 — CORRUPTED VERSION OF PRE-CHORUS 1. Groove partially collapses into clicks, static and fragmented percussion. WORLD / WIDE / WEB should emerge clearly from the chaos like the machine assembling itself.] Click-ick-ick WORLD… click click-ick-ick-WIDE… kick-kick-ick-tap-click-tap-tap-WEB…. [SFX — brief modem/static scrape: “Ickhhhh-shhh-ickkk”; NOT melodic lead vocal.] Got a modern addiction called the in-teh-neh-it Tap tap tap, scroll back down Selfies and smiles til no one’s around [CHORUS 2 — HUMAN LEAD REMAINS MELODIC AND EMOTIONAL. A SECONDARY AUTOMATED/SYNTHETIC SYSTEM VOICE enters one word at a time in the gaps. System words should be cold, centered and increasingly clear: CONNECTING → TO → WORLD → WIDE → WEB. Do not let the system voice replace or harmonize the lead.] [SFX — connection burst: “Kah-Kah-shhh…”] Welcome to the web where we trade worth for validation-un-un “CONNECTING….” [BACKGROUND SYSTEM VOICE — “CONNECTING”] And Pop-up ads they designed as salvation-shun-shun “TO…” [BACKGROUND SYSTEM VOICE — “TO”] oh Follow for follow, like for like, starving your psyche— just one more bite “WORLD….” [BACKGROUND SYSTEM VOICE — “WORLD”] Won’t Change our view or ignore the mentions “WIDE…” [BACKGROUND SYSTEM VOICE — “WIDE”] Cus we’re Losing ourselves in the comment sections “WEB…” [BACKGROUND SYSTEM VOICE — “WEB”] [CONNECTION FAILURE — music abruptly loses its high end and collapses into thin static. Bass and groove disappear.] [SFX — Kuh-kshhh…] [SPOKEN AUTOMATED SYSTEM MESSAGE — dry, emotionless, slightly degraded telephone/computer voice; completely unsung.] “You no longer have connection please check with your service provider” [OUTRO — nearly silent. Static stretches and slowly morphs into a faint human vocal shape. Let the final sound ambiguously resemble the word “sheep” without clearly announcing it.] Kshhh-shhh-shhh-eeeeeeeeep [END — hard connection cut. No final chord resolution.]
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