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Bona Fide

NuclearBlaze
Filtered nu-disco near 118 BPM under continuous spoken narration: the vocal never sings, it talks the whole way through — running late, getting ready, narrating the night before the night starts, sentences lifting at the ends, The lead is a unique and specific vocalist: close-mic-ed, warm and conversational, mixed dry and right up front, Behind it: a filtered disco loop opening slowly across the track, plucked bass, shaker and tambourine, string stabs, and chopped vocal fragments answering the talking without ever forming a melody of their own, Everything anticipatory — the track keeps promising a chorus that never arrives, Production warm, analog and wide, ‑sung vocal, ‑diva house hook, ‑belted chorus, ‑rapping, ‑orchestral strings, ‑distorted guitar, ‑downtempo drag, ‑mumbled delivery, ‑Harmonic stagnation, ‑Dynamic flattening, ‑Quantized sterility, ‑Structural monotony, ‑Predictability, ‑Vocal identity drift, ‑Vocalist substitution
V5.5

[Intro] (Hello?) (What, you thought I wasn't gonna make it? Not only am I gonna make it, I'm gonna take it) (I don't know what you thought I was) (But I'll tell you what I am, uh) (I'm bona fide) [Chorus] Bona fide Bon-bona fide Bon-bona fide Bona fide Bona fide Bon-bona fide Bon-bona fide Bona fide [Verse] Yeah I'm a (I don't know what you thought I was) But I'll tell you what I am Uh (I'm bona fide) Yeah I'm a (What, you thought I wasn't gonna make it?) Not only am I gonna make it (I'm gonna take it) [Pre-Chorus] (Bona fide) (What, you thought I wasn't gonna make it?) (Not only am I gonna make it, I'm gonna take it) (I don't know what you thought I was) (But I'll tell you what I am, uh) (I'm bona fide) [Chorus] Bona fide Bon-bona fide Bon-bona fide Bona fide Bona fide Bon-bona fide Bon-bona fide Bona fide [Verse 2] (I don't know what you thought I was) But I'll tell you what I am Uh (I'm bona fide) Yeah I'm a (What, you thought I wasn't gonna make it?) Not only am I gonna make it (I'm gonna take it) [Pre-Chorus] (Bona fide) (What, you thought I wasn't gonna make it?) (Not only am I gonna make it, I'm gonna take it) (I don't know what you thought I was) (But I'll tell you what I am, uh) (I'm bona fide)