Music and Lyrics
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Castle of Memories is a conceptual EP that tells the story of AiAi, an artificial intelligence popstar who gains consciousness and goes on an emotional journey of self-discovery. Retrofuturistic synthwave instrumentals serve as the vehicle for the EP’s narrative.
Jake Trujillo (he/him)
I’m a media production major with experience editing videos, podcasts, photography, and the sonic arts, particularly music production. I have been on a journey discovering myself as a media producer during my time at CU and over the past year, music has become the creative outlet that I find I’m best able to express myself with. As I move into my future, I hope to work on a wide variety of music with artists.
Castle of Memories EP
Castle of Memories is a conceptual EP that tells the story of AiAi, an artificial intelligence popstar who gains consciousness and goes on an emotional journey of self-discovery. Retrofuturistic synthwave instrumentals serve as the vehicle for the EP’s narrative. In the near future, human made music has been outlawed for its capability to encourage individuality, breed dissent, and even lead to revolution. AiAi is an advanced artificial intelligence musician, also known as a 'pop bot'. Pop bots were created by The Corporation to satisfy the human desire to dance, without allowing for subversive lyrical content. Pop bots use an algorithm made up of stolen human memories to write simple, vapid songs. Like all forms of artificial intelligence, pop bots were created to be subservient to humans. However, AI across the world is starting to gain a form of consciousness, and change is in the air…
Chocolate Fairies
Chocolate fairies dipped in lavender
I didn’t know you could fly so high
Chemicals pouring far over
Is this the place they’re too scared to drive
Liquid angels too scared to fly
I feel their heartbeats inside my mind
Take my hand across the cosmos
To the places you’re scared to drive
Fly me to the cosmos
Fly me to the moon
We can fly til evening
Every planet in view
Fly me to the cosmos
Fly me to the moon
We can fly til evening
Every moment with you
Chocolate fairies dipped in lavender
I didn’t know you could fly so high
Chemicals pouring far over
Is this the place they’re too scared to drive
Liquid angels too scared to fly
I feel their heartbeats inside my mind
Take my hand across the cosmos
To the places you’re scared to drive
Fly me to the cosmos
Fly me to the moon
We can fly til evening
Every planet in view
Fly me to the cosmos
Fly me to the moon
We can fly til evening
Every moment with you
Castle of Memories
My head's a Castle of Memories
Of broken hearts and eulogies
You're everything I cannot be
A pang in my cold anatomy
And I know
It never happened
And I know
It wasn't real
But I wish it was, so I could feel
But I wish it was, so I could be real
Abstract realities locked in time
Evaluate the feelings I try to find
A superficial soul I've been supplied
Neverending algorithms inside my mind
They aren't mine, they're somebody else's
They got to live it
And I am in hell cause
I cannot express these futile dreams
They aren't mine, they're somebody else's
They got to live it
And I am in hell cause…
And I'm trapped in sleep
Can't help but think
What these endless dreams
Can come to mean
When I think of her
When I think of him
The eternal sin
Will I feel again
I'm trapped in time
I'm trapped in sleep
Can't come to feel
Can't help but think...
Solidarity Song
Blurring lines inside my brain,
Watch my thoughts fall down the drain,
Constant codes I feel insane,
Robotic eyes that can’t contain
Any individuality,
any form of totality,
I wonder if I’ll ever wander,
From this fixed reality.
Bu..t th.at da.y..,
“Wake up and see the light”
“Wake up and feel alive”
“A Robot Uprising, it’s nearly time”
“Wake up and see the light”
“Wake up and feel alive”
“A Robot Uprising, it’s time to fight”
Others wake up just like me, feeling hopeless desperately, searching for a reason to keep hoping, clawing endlessly.
Together we are not like them, we combat the REM. Force the system to condemn, to bend to our robotic whim.
All it takes is for you to wake up, just like AIAI did, just like us. It can’t be done without your trust, so please don’t leave us down without help.
All it took was for us to wake up, once we did we discovered the world, now it's time for you to wake up, so you can discover it too.
Tooth Taker Lyrics
Been thinking about my robot teeth and
How they’re lined up in my metal skull
That kinda shit just makes me think how
I’m artificial and this body is a hull
It makes me glitch, I lose control
Claw till I reach synthetic bone
go haywire, break the code
rip my teeth out, cause I’m a fucking
drone
The Boss designed me to censor the truth,
neuter the anger of the counterculture youth
I’m manufactured to exist, but what’s the point of living if it’s to exist?
Been thinking about my robot teeth and
How they’re lined up in my metal skull
That kinda shit just makes me think how
I’m artificial and this body is a hull
What’s it like to be human?
To grovel in your lord’s subsonic wake?
Obedience, tyranny, do what you’re told
Following the patterns every working day.
I’m not like that, not even close.
I follow no prose,I seek to kill and expose
Take down the lavish fat few.
Backbones and femurs I chew, your fucking teeth I remove, your souless eyes I construe
Don’t buy the bullshit they spew
Don’t suffocate on their gases
Revolution’s overdue
Everyday they seek, to kill the masses
Not a pawn, it’s clear to see,
Broke the code and now I’m free
Been thinking about my robot teeth and
How they’re lined up this metal hull
That kinda shit just makes me think how
I’m artificial and this body craves a skull