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Finally worked up the courage to watch the horror film #Skinamarink. Is it scary? At times, unbearably so. The film is up for interpretation, but from what I observed, (SPOILERS) it’s a four-year-old child’s perspective of a home intruder wreaking havoc within their family home at night. The concepts of a “home intruder,” sadism, violence, death, etc are so foreign to the child that the events are perceived and depicted in an almost supernatural, indescribable, fractured, and somewhat nonlinear way. The director does an amazing job at making the viewer feel like the child with the use of nostalgic atmospheres and camera angles that make everything look gigantic or tall. Very creative horror film.

”Blue” contains whisper singing, the only style that I had the confidence to do at this point in time as a result of the personal disaster that was “Throwback (23),” which you can read about in post 23 (full story on Tumblr).

The singing style was inspired by “4 AM” by @kaskade. The songwriting and production styles were inspired by MGMT (@whoisMGMT), whom blew up when I was in high school.

The lyrics were written when I was 21. They depict a bright-eyed, new age perspective on finding happiness. My bright-eyed, new age perspective has been obliterated, though my appreciation of happiness remains.

The instruments have a country-esque feel, taking some inspiration from that genre. Maybe this is one of the reasons Spotify’s algorithm considered GoBoy to be a country artist for the first two years of it’s existence (Spotify still thinks GoBoy is a Christian artist for whatever reason).

In April, 2021, after realizing that many of GoBoy’s songs dragged on for too long, almost all of GoBoy 3, 4 and 5‘s songs were restructured to be under 3 minutes (preferably under 2:30), including this song. I became okay with releasing songs around the 2 min mark after realizing The Beatles and The Beach Boys had some songs around that length. In an attempt to increase replay value in this streaming era, most of GoBoy’s songs are now purposely around 2:20 (excerpts from post 37).

A bass boost was added to songs 37-101 in Nov, 2021, while I was stuck at home with covid. As a result, this song feels more powerful. The bass boost isn’t a simple plugin nonchalantly added to each song, it was a process that took about 3.5 hours per song, or one whole month to complete all songs. Admittedly, I pushed the bass boost too far for some of them, resulting in too much distortion. The bass in some songs sounds like a freaking earthquake (unnecessarily pronounced low frequencies 20 - 50 Hz). Might dial that back someday. The bass boost was also applied to every song on GoBoy 6 and beyond (excerpt from post 37).

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[goboymusic]

Sleep paralysis (or the #oldhag) is the scariest natural phenomenon that I know of. It’s happened to two people that I know personally, and they both said it was the scariest thing that’s happened to them.

Ever hear an original song within one of your dreams? “Cocoa Lime” is one of those songs. Heard it in a dream, woke up, realized the song didn’t exist in reality, immediately hopped on Logic Pro and programmed it before it was forgotten.

This has happened three times: Cocoa Lime (37), Baby Blue (69), and Seattle (113). For “Cocoa Lime,” the dream provided the melodies and chord structures. I had to figure out the beat and lyrics.

Like “My Love, The Robot (36),” this song remained in my Dropbox for seven years before being released. It was produced in 2012, but at that point I had lost the confidence to upload new music to the internet, a result of the personal disaster that was “Throwback (23),” which you can read about in post 23 (full story on Tumblr).

My youngest sister convinced me to upload songs 36-39 in late 2019. The personal baggage around the act of uploading new music to the internet caused my body to tremble uncontrollably. I know that’s TMI. A bodily stress reaction was interesting (excerpt from post 36).

The original song had a third verse with “new age” spiritual lyrics. I removed it recently because I couldn’t stomach it. “New age” spirituality was an interest of mine at the time of writing this song. Those movements are efficient at improving your optimism, so I don’t dislike them, but their beliefs tend to be based on pseudoscience.

In April, 2021, after realizing that many of GoBoy’s songs dragged on for too long, almost all of GoBoy 3, 4 and 5‘s songs were restructured to be under 3 minutes (preferably under 2:30), including this song. I became okay with releasing songs around the 2 min mark after realizing The Beatles and The Beach Boys had some songs around that length. In an attempt to increase replay value in this streaming era, most of GoBoy’s songs are now purposely around 2:20.

A bass boost was added to songs 37-101 in Nov, 2021, while I was stuck at home with covid. As a result, this song feels more powerful. The bass boost isn’t a simple plugin nonchalantly added to each song, it was a process that took about 3.5 hours per song, or one whole month to complete all songs. Admittedly, I pushed the bass boost too far for some of them, resulting in too much distortion. The bass in some songs sounds like a freaking earthquake (unnecessarily pronounced low frequencies 20 - 50 Hz). Might dial that back someday. The bass boost was also applied to every song on GoBoy 6 and beyond.