Story Behind The Song

This is song was inspired by folklore and good storytelling, and with all storytelling there is excitement, drama, and consequences for the choices we make. Very much like a good Grimm Fairytale. I was inspired to write this song because I am a lover of pop culture and pop music. In our modern day pop music we hear a lot of fluff and there is no substance and no real story. If you sing about shaking your ass, make it mean something for the listener. I search for a world of pop music where they sing with meaning and really evoke something that strikes my core. The "pop stars" are referring to both an alien race from the Planet Pop and the pop stars from the 1980s and early 1990s who really cared about performance. Yes there is Gaga, but many others are complacent with a lip synced performance. The lyrics "where I come from they're such a bore, where I come from they are com-pu-tors" really represents today's culture, not just in music, but in life. There is a lot less human interaction and it leaves some us feeling alone and lost. I don't want to go into further detail because a song should mean something different to each listener. Take what you want from this, but know I look to the future and I live for "future pop."

Song Description

An alien race from the Planet Pop is discovered by humans. We, the human race, relocate and submerse our lives into a new world with the tall majestic creatures we call the "Pop Stars." Trouble brews and we become greedy demanding technology, hybrids (a mix of human and the Pop Stars), and finally all HELL breaks loose in the third act of this drama called "Future Pop."

Lyrics

SPOKEN:
The Planet Pop was a beautiful place
The Planet Pop superior to human race
The humans got jealous, they got upset
They had enough, they wanted death
I lost my friends, I lost my home
But I carry on for... PLANET POP

The pop stars stand several stories high
With plastic skin and purple eyes
These ancient souls move in perfect pace
Striding through time and space
The pop stars here sing night and day
With open minds, they sing, "please stay"
They make us feel we're not alone
What gracious gods, to share their home

PRE-CHORUS 1:
Where I come from they're such a bore
Where I come from they are com-pu-tors
Where I come from they're such a bore
Where I come from they are com-pu-tors

CHORUS:
I want your future pop
Where they sing to me
I want your future pop
Where we all are free
I want your future pop
Where they make me dream
I need your future, future, future pop
I need your future, future, future pop

P--------pop

The pop stars here don't care for fame
In their eyes we're all the same
They don't understand our human ways
So they bore us a hybrid race
The pop stars don't know our need for more
But they sense us on the brink of war
The mothers go to save their young
But our people, took everyone

PRE-CHORUS 2:
Where I come from we are not free
We are slaves for our society
Where I come from we cannot see
We are slaves for our society

(CHORUS)

The pop stars are crying
As you blow up their little world
(Forgive me)
The pop stars are dying
As you steal their very last breath
(Forgive me)
And our people, are not trying
To reach out and be a friend
(Forgive me)
Instead we did this all for nothing
This black dust pollutes my sky
I serve pop stars, their memory
In my core their dream survives

(CHORUS)

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