Since coming up with an opening, i have re-attempted a new spoken word that is purely about the future, influenced by the wonderful Kate Tempest (WHERE HAS SHE BEEN HIDING ALL THIS TIME)!!!
This is exactly what i want to go for, after watching this performance entirely i was so inspired to write my own.
Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos (2017)
With her influence i have made my own spoken word verse:
She lives in a vortex
A space cadet
She
scurries between the clouds and the leaves
this is what it means for her to live in a dream
“What a strange little girl you have
Doesn’t she want to play with dolls
Or toys,
why does she always play with the boys
Didn’t you teach her to be scared of spiders and bugs
And not to play amongst the mud
Jonny got an ipad for his 6th birthday
He signed up to facebook yesterday”
(Characterisation note: Voice of authority – Mums on the playground, patronising, upper class)
That’s all good and well mandy
But your kid doesn’t know that that bird out there in the garden is a sparrow
There’s trouble with the people and their minds are growing narrow
This child however born into the millennials
Has a mind too active to simply sit still
She
wants to be outside “but there’s horrible people out there my dear
You want to get yourself inside where you can see the world in HD”
(characterisation note: Voice of authority – older lady)
With the news on in the background, violence hate and war she
Lets her imagination set her free
When she leaves school
She will enrol onto a drama degree
Defer for a year and work in the local pub to get herself some money
“What are you going to do with that then
You want to get yourself a proper job”
Characterisation note: (Voice of authority – Deep, Manly voices of verbatim from the local pub)
What like you she says
Working in a grey office that gets you plenty of dosh
and are you happy no of course not
And that’s why youre in here every night, drowning your mind with your usual pint
She’ll get through university and face problems on the way like
Having to do a dissertation while her father drinks away the pain and yet
she seems like she’s the happiest person in the world doesn’t she?
And that’s because she lets her mind wander freely
Another world she visits every single day
when you look at her she seems vacant because she’s floating far away
if you try to speak with her she will look very blank
And although she seems to be listening its difficult
when in youre mind you’re crossing a river bank
Creativity she says
The key to her degree
It lets my mind wander freely and I don’t have to be me
“But what are you going to do with that when you leave
Haven’t you got plans to travel or teach, that we can add to your CV”
Characterisation notes: (female voice of authority- based on verbatim by student support service worker- patronising tone)
The truth is Bianca from student support, I don’t know
All I know is an office job is some place I don’t want to go
Sorry what did you say, I was too busy looking at your desk and creating a story about the life you had before we just met and how your day might’ve gone and what maybe you had for breakfast cos your desk bin is starting to smell of the browning banana skin, and that’s made me hungry and reminded me of a spider, sometimes they find them you know, hidden inside and yeah i hear that spiders can sometimes get under your skin, lay their eggs in your arm and you have to scratch out their kin, I had a spider once, a tarantula called Ziggy, stardust and the spiders on mars are all sat their learning how to play guitar at the bar in space I float with them as they wiggle their waists and imagine being a dancer, what if I could do that or what if I could go on to climb the ifle tower and… seriously Three years are up now, where am I gonna go, and as the colours in my mind start to overflow I look outside my window and I watch the world pass me by as I dream in slow mo..
At this point i think the butterfly video should play. i like the transition. I also like the idea of my opening song, comical and unexpected, to go straight into this hard hitting poem.
Since ‘Breakthrough’ was a big influence on my work, i was lucky enough to find the instrumental, and once i practiced saying these lines with the music to accompany in the same way Kate Tempest does… i was thrilled to see that the words fit so beautifully! and the words end with the song too. I feel like it is starting to come together now!
Breakthrough (instrumental) (2014)
Breakthrough (instrumental) (2014) Youtube video added by Trwbador – Topic. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu858BP8eQg
Kate Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos (2017) Youtube Video added by English Dane. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDt3OunosTQ&t=217s