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Unzipping their final single before the album launch on October 18th, KRIS BAHA & GHOSTS IN THE MACHIИE decrypt “Mvtational” (pronounced Mutational) - A song about a future generation resistant to assimilating into AI-controlled systems. This generation is depicted as mutants to the AI systems, standing apart from the digital world and spreading like a contagious force. The term "MVTATIONAL" represents their transformation and defiance. They've become updates that the AI can't decipher, can’t read, programming their own future while staying true to themselves. The song emphasises their struggle against being controlled by simulations and AI, remaining unknown and fighting for their identity in a changing world. The lyrics act as a metaphor for current day marginalised communities, like LGBTQ individuals, non conforming to societal norms/ constructs and embracing their unique identities. A personal song for Kris & Ghosts being apart of the LGBTQ community as-well as being half Armenian, a culture that is still undergoing ethnic cleansing to this day.
lyrics
Cyber hound
Up in the cloud
Controlling our
Cerebration
Mutations form
Beyond the digital veil
Spreads like a plague
The cyber-nation's now
MVTATIONAL
MVTATIONAL
MVTATIONAL
MVTATIONAL
MVTATIONAL
We’ve become the update they can’t read
MVTATIONAL
Programming future societies
MVTATIONAL
Emulating what I’m supposed to be
WE ARE NOW
Simulations
With no way out
Designed to feel
Like another realm
Contagions
That advance their plan
Translations loud,
We’ve been left out
Heart beats in code
Emulates it’s flow
The AI’s controlling us
Time drowns as we stay unknown
It’s harder now, it’s hard to know
MVTATIONAL
MVTATIONAL
MVTATIONAL
We’ve become the update they can’t read
MVTATIONAL
Programming future societies
MVTATIONAL
Emulating what I’m supposed to be
WE ARE NOW
MVTATIONAL
We’re the evolution they can’t see
MVTATIONAL
Automating our society
MVTATIONAL
They’ll rewrite a new version of me
MVTATIONAL
WE ARE NOW
credits
released September 27, 2023
Mixed & Mastered by Maurizo Baggio
Photo by John Rohreh
Artwork by Lukas Echterhoff
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