[Intro: piano stab] [Male 3, deep, cold] Welcome... to the festival. [Hype Intro: beat slams in, heavy drums and bass, crowd call-and-response] [Male 2, shouting to the crowd] One million dollars! (HEY!) Fourteen winners! (HEY!) Thousands of films! (HEY! HEY!) Guess who really wins? (HIGGSFIELD!) Let's go! [Verse 1: Male 1, aggressive punchy rap] "Global Film Festival", a million on the table, Make it in our studio, put it on our label. Every frame, every prompt, every shot that we made, Goes public when it's over, now the whole world's got your trade. Read the rules, read 'em twice, it's right there in the print, Perpetual licence, royalty-free, now that's a hint. Not just for the winners, every entry that complied, They can run it in their ads till the end of time. Gotta post it on your socials with the watermark on top, Their logo, their packshot, free promo, non-stop. [Chorus 1: Russian female singer, powerful haunting sung melody] Это всё иллюзия, красивый обман, Яркие огни, а за ними туман. Наше кино — их реклама опять, Миллион на витрине, а нам — только ждать. [Chant Drop 1: shouted gang chant, hard stabs, stop-start drums] IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! Higgsfield! Higgsfield! WELCOME TO THE SHOW! [Drum stop] [Verse 2: Male 2, fast sharp rap] Thousands of creators grinding late at night, Spending our own credits just to get the picture right. Deadline the fifteenth, or was it the sixteenth? Even their own pages can't agree on the deadline! Shortlist done, jury done, voting closed too, Now the winners say "to be confirmed", so what we 'posed to do? No scores, no notes, no reason on the screen, Who watched what, and who decided in between? I ain't saying rigged, I don't know what went down, But a little bit of clarity would calm the crowd. [Chorus 2: Russian female singer, powerful haunting sung melody] Это всё иллюзия, красивый обман, Яркие огни, а за ними туман. Наше кино — их реклама опять, Миллион на витрине, а нам — только ждать. [Chant Drop 2: shouted gang chant, harder stabs, stop-start drums] IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! Higgsfield! Higgsfield! WELCOME TO THE SHOW! [Drum stop] [Verse 3: Male 3, extremely deep raspy voice, heavy and slow, then double-time] Fourteen winners out of thousands in the race, Everybody else just a free ad in their space. Big name on the jury to make it look legit, But the fine print's the real star of it. We made your showreel, we made your hype, Every entry is a billboard, every post is a like, You got thousands of films for the price of a prize, Thousands of creators working overtime, So call it what it is, it's a contest and a deal, You get a lifetime of content, and we get a "maybe" in the reel. [Short instrumental break] [Verse 4: Male 1 and Male 2 trade lines, rapid back-and-forth] [Male 1] "You keep your copyright", yeah, that's what they wrote, [Male 2] But the licence lasts forever, read the footnote! [Male 1] Then I see my film on a site I never knew, [Male 2] Ask about it, and they say "that ain't us, not our crew"! [Male 1] Open-source our prompts, so the whole world can copy, [Male 2] Our work's out in the wild and the answers getting sloppy! [Male 1] Winners "end of October", date to be confirmed, [Male 2] Fourteen get the money, and the rest get burned! [Bridge: Russian female singer, soft and haunting, piano only] Мы снимали сердцем, ночи без сна, А правила мелким шрифтом — вот и вся цена. Победителей ждём, а дата — «потом», А наше кино уже под чужим лицом. [Final Chorus: Russian female singer, biggest and most powerful] Это всё иллюзия, красивый обман, Яркие огни, а за ними туман. Наше кино — их реклама опять, Миллион на витрине, а нам — только ждать. [Final Chant Drop: all voices and crowd, hardest stabs] IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! Higgsfield! Higgsfield! WELCOME TO THE SHOW! IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! WELCOME TO THE SHOW! [Outro: Male 3, deep, cold, over one piano note] Winners... to be confirmed. Still waiting... Show's over. [Final Drop: massive heavy bass, hard rocking drums, crowd chant getting quieter each time] IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! IL-LU-SION! Il-lu-sion... il-lu-sion... [Russian female singer, whispered] иллюзия... [Male 3, deep whisper] ...illusion. [Fade out] [End]
