always wanted to write a song like this.

as I mentioned in my musical origin story, a lot of my formative memories have party music as a soundtrack...assembling the fragments of fact, memory, and public record that form our knowledge of our parents, my pop must have had a hell of a time at college parties in the DC area at the height of the OG Funk Era.

as a result I heard A LOT of bouncy beats and bombastic bs growing up...Earth, Wind, and Fire was pretty much a Saturday morning alarm clock, Rick James came to the supermarket with us, and of course Uncle George made the scene pretty much every family function...even my stage jigs have a lot of line dance in 'em. I was moulded by The Funk. raised by it.

and so this album entry--titled in full "for legal purposes this song is about a 'party'", yes the whole thing and yes "party" gets contextually formatted air quotes--is pretty much a tribute to all those funky folx with a massive splash of our musical moonshine.

like a lot of our original stuff, the song started out as a basic sketch of a bassline plunked out on my trusty online virtual piano...always a thrilling experience to watch the way better technical musicians in the band (all 4 of 'em!) take the lines I draw and make squares, then cubes, then a fuckin discotheque.

after that I just write a poem and boom, song.

for the 17 nerds out there that care about this sort of thing the song is in F, which ZiZi pointed out I use a lot because it's the base note of my speaking voice or whatever and more than one song has come out of me going "buh buh duh duh buh buh."

anyways that's enough music theory, we're here for a party*!

besides, I should probably just go ahead and head off any misinformed understandings of the song's meaning.

first verse goes to Zi because you always try to put your best foot forward at these things:

[verse 1]
"it's going down tonight and everyone's invited

I got the bottle if you wanna get it lighted

hit the bank early so I got some extra bread

no work tomorrow so I'll stay out late instead!"

...so then I come in with a little prechorus thing that appeals to my musical strengths of rhythm and bellowing:

"mask on when you on the floor

mask on cuz it's time to go

mask on it's about to blow

mask off let's start the show!"

of course these are party masks for leisure fun, nothing more. it's a dance floor stop asking so many questions officer. let's move on to the hook:

"we about to have a something party

let's hit the streets now and get something started

nothing to lose so let's do something bout it

a little something something

at the something party"


see? bulletproof alibi, we were at a party it says so right there.

tell 'em ZiZi, use that trustworthy face of yours!

[verse 2]
"under the stars it's too damn hot to stay inside

on top of cars there ain't no room to take a ride

we in these streets until Nevember 32

this is our city it belong to me and you!"

public spaces are one of the hallmarks of a functioning society and we are proud to espouse that belief here...cars take up far too much infrastructure in the typical city and reclaiming that space through the proper channels is a core tenet of this song. nothing untoward to see here, let's move on.

"mask on when you on the floor

mask on cuz it's time to go

mask on it's about to blow

mask off let's start the show

we about to have a something party

let's hit these streets now and get something started

nothing to lose so let's do something bout it

a little something something

at the something party"

okay at this point I'd like to testify on my own behalf, after all I did write the song so I should explain myself more clearly and in a funkier fashion.

[verse 3]

sittin' on your back pockets, got nothing to do?

lemme holla real quick, got something for you

I say we meet up in these streets

get out that seat, vote with your feet

no cover, drink ticket, no

those tricks for the kids girl this mature

you ain't never seen a night like this before

cuz we in the cool zone, said anything goes

John Brown said fuck the law

so we hit the supermarket and the sneaker store

we gate crash, we break glass

then we pull up, get out and we get some mo'

and if that don't excite enough

start a dumpster fire in a cybertruck

it's like a movie feeling groovy on this night out

now let's kick back in the jacuzzi at the white house!"

um...sht that didn't come out right, it kinda sounds like--

I meant to say something else. what did you want to hear again?

it was a party okay, just a simple celebration! what happened after that was legitimate party discourse.

yikes this is going left, where's that armored personnel carrier we obtained the other day? cool, coming through the wall. we should...we should go now.

[verse 4]

"we going to the party

we bout to get it started

with all my folks the AC broke

it's too hot in this car so I say

roll it on down on the left hand side

roll it on down on the left

roll it on down on the right hand side

roll it on down on the right right

roll it on down in the back seat now

roll it on down in the back

now drop that top it's still too hot

gon holla at the moon, go hard for the plot!

whose house? (our house)

whose house? (our house)

whose house? (our house)

whose house? (our house)

here come the cops pull up the top

here come the cops pull up the top

here come the cops pull up that top

bulletproof rooftop stop them shots

gon raise the roof (x7)

throw it up!

now we gon roll it on up on the left hand side

roll it on up on the left

roll it on up on the right hand side

roll it on up on the right right

roll it on up on the back seat now

roll it on up in the back

we on a roll, it's time to go

we got tomorrow, we can't be stopped!"

all power to The People.

--Flor!