New album
The Insider album is an Electro Swing compilation of original songs about overcoming biased perceptions, the power of kindness and love, innovation, perseverance, and reaching for the stars!
The theme song, Insider Threat, is a homage to women innovators from all races worldwide, who overcame discrimination, bias, harassment and abuse, resulting in huge scientific breakthroughs and contributions to the human race.
I am in the process of completing and recording the songs for the album and developing a companion documentary.
More details to come!
Insider Threat Lyrics
Insider Threat Lyrics
Spoken:
I sleep on a bean bag and shower in the dark
Made a vision board while camping alone in a park
Dance to Celtic music every year on Paddy's Day
Built castles to the whisper of honey bees,
Singing the night away
Some call it cooky and downright spooky
That I sit by the lake in the dead of the night
..and dream of Singing on cruise ships,
Inventing novel gizmos in the pale moonlight
Ask too many questions, dream too many dreams
Awaken the Kraken, Medusa are you listening?
[Mahna Mahna Full Song Sample]
Verse 1
On my island of misfit toys, Carlotta-in-the-box is Queen
Rocked the boat, couldn't stay afloat
When 1,000 copper soldiers
Tried to steal her dream
From the ash she took to flight,
And landed on a shooting star
Pop went the weasel and a music box
Worth a million at life's bazaar
Chorus
Insider (Threat), Ghost Rider
Dancin' to the beat of a different drum
Sojourner on the chopping block
Tweedledee, Tweedledum
Zig Zag, a patchwork journey
Bucking the trend as they swim upstream
Baanbreker, gutsy risk taker
Gliding on a loonshot, moonshot beam
Manamana, Manamana
Ba Da Da Pa
Manamana, Manamana
Ba Da Da Pa
Manamana, Manamana
Ba Da Da Pa
Watch your back, walk away, or get with it
Verse 2
Climb the ladder too fast or shine too bright
A bullseye you'll become
Crabs in a bucket of muck and mire
Will drag your name in the mud
Fem Sojourners, heads up high
Don't let haters ebb your flow
Keep moving forward through the looking glass
Triple threat insider unknown unknown
(Triple threat, known unknown, triple threat insider known unknown)
(Mahna Mahna)
(Unknown, known unknown, triple threat insider known unknown)
(Mahna Mahna)
Chorus
[Mahna Mahna spoken]
Insider (Threat), Ghost Rider
Dancin' to the beat of a different drum
[Mahna Mahna spoken]
Sojourner on the chopping block
Tweedledee, Tweedledum
[Mahna Mahna spoken]
Zig Zag, a patchwork journey
Bucking the trend as they swim upstream
[Mahna Mahna spoken]
Baanbreker, gutsy risk taker
Gliding on a loonshot, moonshot beam
Manamana, Manamana
Ba Da Da Pa
Manamana, Manamana
Ba Da Da Pa
Manamana, Manamana
Ba Da Da Pa
Watch your back, walk away, or get with it
Bridge
Joy Buolamwini, an invisible brown
Barbara McClintock, a jumping gene clown
Maria Merian's metamorphosis dream
Rachel Carson's hysterical scheme
Marie Curie didn't know her place
Kathy Johnson, a computer disgraced
Shirley Ann Jackson, excluded and scorned
Mad Madge, out the door!
Chorus:
[Mahna Mahna spoken]
Insider (Threat), Ghost Rider
Dancin' to the beat of a different drum
[Mahna Mahna spoken]
Sojourner on the chopping block
Tweedledee, Tweedledum
[Mahna Mahna spoken]
Zig Zag, a patchwork journey
Bucking the trend as they swim upstream
[Mahna Mahna spoken]
Baanbreker, gutsy risk taker
Gliding on a loonshot, moonshot beam
Manamana, Manamana
Ba Da Da Pa
Manamana, Manamana
Ba Da Da Pa
Manamana, Manamana
Ba Da Da Pa
Watch your back, walk away, or get with it
Spoken:
Dr. Joy Buolamwini, invisible brown, is a pioneer whose research exposes widespread racial and gender bias in Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. Barbara McClintock, jumping gene clown, was awarded a Nobel Prize for her research in cytogenetics in 1983.
Dr. Maria Merian, metamorphosis dreams, pioneered the study of entomological lifecycles and their relationships to ecology.
Dr. Rachel Carson, hysterical schemes, was a pioneer in environmental science and conservation.
Dr. Marie Curie, who didn't know her place, was the first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize and the only woman to win in two different scientific fields.
Katherine Johnson, the computer disgraced, helped the first American orbit the moon and won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, was excluded and scorned while attending MIT in the 60's and 70's but became a renowned Theoretical Physicist, advising American presidents and serving as the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Margaret Cavendish, Mad Madge, challenged her era's scientific and gender norms, developing theories of atomism, materialism, and experimentalism in the 16th century.
Dr. Lise Meitner was nominated 49 times for a Nobel Prize and made significant contributions to the discovery of nuclear fission.
Dr. Mae Jemmison, who was told she should be a nurse in grade school, became a chemical engineer, medical doctor, and the first African-American astronaut.
Dr. Lise Meitner, Dr. Mae Jemmison, Dr. Kalpana Chawla, Dr. Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann, Dr. Helen Rodiguez Trias, Dr. Rosalind Franklin, Dr. Patricia Bath, Laura I. Gomez, Alice Ball, Dr. Marie Maynard Daly, Dr. Jane Cooke Wright, Dr. Valerie Thomas, Mamie Phipps Clark, Dr. Gladys W. Royal, Dr. Gloria Twine Chisum...and the beat goes on......
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