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Viral Reality: Interim Show

This was my first performance in front of a large crowd. I combined my largest painting to date with a controvertial edit of one of my favourite songs "All In My Head" by Tori Kelly. The conventions I was challenging were those of a standard acoustic break up song with a catchy melody. Utilising elements of surprise and humour, I played with the idea of allowing my message to become interwoven and somewhat hidden. The jilted lover protagonist singing displays signs of cognitive dissonance as they are constantly refusing to accept reality, therefore I wanted to cause the audience to become unsettled at first with my seemingly random interjections of lyrics. When I got to the bridge of the song by that point most of the audience had became aware that I had a message to convey.

Potential song lyrics in progress lyrics:

 

Into the thrall of the night

Overtaking your cognition

It melts your brain inside

This point it ain't superstition

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Addictive, driven by

Instant gratificatio-on

Lingering you ask why

This was even your intention

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Enraptured in euphoria

Blindly leading the way into

Empty rooms of hysteria

How you wish you knew, had a clue

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Ask yourself why you dont

Ask yourself enough it's coz

You're scared of what you will find

What demons lurk inside

You want them to remain untouched

But soon they'll come to the surface

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This is a studio demo of Viral Reality sung with a piano instrumental.

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