So, I guess I have some explaining to do on this one. First, please accept my apologies to those who didn’t think the song was either appropriate or funny. I am truly sorry… that you don’t have a sense of humor. Now, go piss your panties somewhere else, please.
To the rest of you 2-3 people out there, allow me to attempt to explain the origin of this soon to be cult classic of a song. All kidding aside, there actually is a more serious reason for one of my most “out of the ordinary” songs. Please allow me to elaborate.
On Thanksgiving Day of 2024, I was spending the day alone. My girlfriend had found out the day before that she needed to work the holiday, and I was stewing in a mixture of sadness, frustration, and a fair amount of anger over the fact that they waited until the last minute to tell her that she was to work.
I decided to release a song that I had mostly completed about a month before to express to feelings, and the song was “Bleeding Me Dry (Anhedonia),” which is about my personal battle with the condition. I hastily added the final piece, a bass line, and then rushed through the mastering to get it done and released.
Fast forward to late December, and I am sitting at my synth creating a patch. I came up with something that I thought was interesting, and I asked my girlfriend what she thought that it sounded like. “An alien” was the reply.
It just so happened that at the same time on the east coast in New Jersey and neighboring states, there was a rash large and small drones flying around which were alarming people and politician (are they still people?) alike. The police tried chasing them, and they would turn their running lights off and out-maneuver the fuzz.
Nobody knew what in the God damn hell was going on. Was it China? Was it the CIA running an experiment? Maybe, just maybe, it was the military looking for stolen nuclear material or a lost nuclear bomb.
OR WAS IT ALIENS??????
Yeah, of course that was floated by some of the more conspiratorial. Aliens, huh? And my GF said that this patch sounded like… an alien…. Coincidence or something else? I’ll answer that for you: coincidence, and nothing more.
Prior to her telling me her opinion, I had decided that I needed to come up with a song that was on the lighter side in order to offset the really dark song that “Bleeding Me Dry” was. So, I decided to just do something silly, originally with the intent of not publishing it (just like “Egg Salad” was supposed to just be a dumb joke song for me to play for people for shits and giggles [there’s a pun there if you know the song]). And for that lighter song, something about the topic of the week, aliens.
I started working on the music but soon discovered that I felt to damn stupid about singing a song about aliens. Even though this was a private song, I came to the conclusion that I would do something else. I didn’t want another instrumental, though. That’s when it dawned on me: let’s do a little skit about a guy who was being abducted by an alien. Naturally, getting probed is the main event of any alien abduction story, so I would do it on that. Surely, I wouldn’t feel stupid doing that, right?
So, I did the skit, adlibbing the whole thing after thinking long and hard about how the scenario would play out. I won’t mention what happens during the skit, just in case the dear reader has yet to listen to this masterpiece. But in listening back to it once it was completed with the processing and whatnot, I laughed my ass off. I also felt really stupid for doing it. But, oh well. Only the people I want to hear it will.
That was until I was convinced to publish it (just like “Egg Salad”).
This is also the most genres I’ve stuffed into a song: Sci-fi, hard/rock, comedy, funk (a little slap bass segue), electronic with “rock” guitar, and 70’s porno influenced bass and wah guitar.
TL;DR: The topic was selected due to current events and a comment from my GF. The skit was done because I wanted to offset the depressingly heavy tune that came before it, but I felt too stupid to sing a song about aliens. The song was supposed to be private, but was published anyway, and I still ended up feeling stupid. But I’m proud of the mix of genres I was able to get in there.