Day 16: Robots

My music teacher Allye gave me a bunch of suggestions, including a band called Kraftwerk, who were apparently the pioneers of electronic music--so that's what I'm using as my inspiration today. Kraftwerk's "The Robots".

Honestly, I have absolutely no freakin' idea what I'm going to do with this one. I suppose I did ask for challenging bands and songs!

Lyrics, thanks to LyricsDownload.com:

We're charging our battery
And now we're full of energy
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots

We're functioning automatic
And we are dancing mechanic
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots
We are the robots

Ja tvoi sluga, (I'm your slave)
ja tvoi Rabotnik (I'm your worker.)

we are programmed just to do
anything you want us to
we are the robots
we are the robots
we are the robots
we are the robots

we're functioning automatic
and we are dancing mechanic
we are the robots
we are the robots
we are the robots
we are the robots

Ja tvoi sluga, (I'm your slave)
ja tvoi Rabotnik (I'm your worker.)

Ja tvoi sluga, (I'm your slave)
ja tvoi Rabotnik (I'm your worker.)

[repeat to fade]
We are the robots

Alright, basic thoughts... beat, repetition (of daily life?), robots--emotionless, simple melody.

Slave > no free will > controlled > stepford wives? Typical "housewife" view of women? --slaving over the stove/dishes every day for husband etc.

Corporate workers > corporations? Supply lines, identical, no individuality.

God this music is driving me insane, let's get this over with!

I like the house-wife idea, let's go with that... controlling husband, kids... Perfect house-wife. That's all very well, but what's the hook? She knows the situation she's in, and accepts it--she's actually quite intelligent. A poet? Perhaps her monologue could be in poetry? (That's one thing I've wanted to do, yay).

She lives with the situation she's in because she loves her husband and children. She knows it's wrong, but chooses to stand by it because... something to do with programming? - because that's what her parents did, and despite claims to the contrary thinks that's the best way for a family unit to function? She does it because she believes it right.

She's interesting because she chooses to be a stepford wife. She believes it the right thing to do, despite what society says.

Conflict? Discussion with her husband about his day--subtle barbs at her that she ignores, subtle barbs at him that he ignores. They aren't happy; they're acting out a simulation of life, and pretending to be something they're not.

He works as a scientist for a computer corporation.

But wait, this is a monologue, not a dialogue. Okay; let's make it about him instead, I've really done enough women. He gets sick of her being the perfect mother and housewife--she's completely lost herself. He doesn't understand it. Let's try that.

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