Fiction
Words & Music by James Kennedy
'Fiction' is an Alternative Rock song & the 6th song on the 2010 Kyshera album 'Paradigm'. The words, music & production are by James Kennedy.
'Fiction' is a musical tour de force featuring more than 11 different musical sections in just over 2 minutes with no repeats throughout. The song begins with a 20th century classical technique called 'Serialism' but is executed in a high speed punk rock style. This intro features firstly the 12 Tone Row and then the Retrograde Inverted version of itself.
The song then continues on its musical schizophrenia at breakneck speed including atonal metal riffs, noise & rapid changes of tempo until the end, whilst lyrically, Kennedy rallies against the hollowness of modern celebrity, culture, ethics & values with lines such as "Freedom where there once was murder - we just change the words" and proclaiming over at the end that "We live in a Fiction, a Fiction".
LYRICS
Dark age in the endless strobing of fairy lights
Blind faith in the plastic spun idol of the self
Celebrate the mediocre
Survival of the best pretender
Freedom where there once was murder
You just change the words
Make up, fake tan, surgery
All the ways I value me
Steroids, liposuction we are free
Now absolution’s so easy
Faster, louder, younger, more
Cultural shock & awe
We live in the advert of reality
Where the truth has to accept what we believe
Sensory greed & mental poverty
And everyone’s a celebrity
Turn on the TV to look in the mirror
Swallow sugar cube propaganda
Lowest common denominator
With everyone equal
See what you wanna see, hear what you wanna hear
Fear what you wanna fear so…
You can feel what you wanna feel, be what you wanna be
You false little motherfu**er go
You change the packaging then you’ve changed what’s within
But there is nothing inside anything now
Our politics, our values & our sense of self
It’s all surface level marketing now
We live in a fiction, a fiction
We live in a fiction, a fiction