Idealistic Mystics

The power of choice and defying limitations. Wikipedia and Lofi as expected, subverted and rejected.

When the challenges were distributed, a team named the Idealistic Misfits was given one of them. Our team, the Idealistic Mystics, was left out of the distribution entirely. Therefore, we took it upon ourselves to forge our own path here in Round 5. We all took inspiration from various wiki pages (see lyrics), and I determined to make a multi-movement instrumental that could showcase a wide variety of sounds (also, ADHD happened). We start lo-fi, but we move from there to boom-bap, hybrid trap, EDM, and drum'n'bass, ending with a nod to our first round's song on piano. Through this whole thing, I met the Round 2 challenge (utilizing at least one sample from each crate), the Round 4 challenge (utilizing builds, drops, tempo and groove changes and other such fun crowdpleaser tricks), and more. Most importantly, we had fun on this project. This competition, as has been stated throughout, is first and foremost about helping birth new music into the world. While the challenge that was rolled for the "Idealistic Misfits" was a stifling one that we collectively turned our noses up at, what we have here is something all of us are proud of. If I'm not mistaken, taking defined genres and subverting them is precisely what nerdcore is all about, anyways. Hopefully you can enjoy what this motley mob of misfit mischief-makers has brought to your ears. Thank you, VPC.

Verse 1 (Michaelangeflow) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme 
It's so bold to roll dice to dole out lofi
We got that rule of cool, we mold our own life
Ya heard of Vermin Supremely urging
Society stinks; its teeth need working
Instead of boot licking, his cap for thinking
Run for government, save that ship from sinking 
The flow of his pen defies dystopian 
On idyllic solutions we’ll find home again
Missile misfit sages down holes like wiki pages
A daring disdain of your glaring mistake
We integrated darkness, ascended pacifism
Now we're passing out mics to cultivate our vision
Like three extra ties hung around his neck
We flip off this challenge with all due respect
Free spirits summoned, a rumble to humble
An eclectic ensemble; power structures crumble

Verse 2 (JoeyZ64) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart 
You simply wouldn’t understand
A woman’s never done this
Flew over the Atlantic and all the earth that it encompass
For the thrill of the adventure
And the greater thrill of provin’ ‘em wrong
I didn’t interrupt ‘em when they said it couldn’t be done
I just did it
That’s the most effective way to do it
I wanted to fly a plane, so I got a plane and I flew it
Easy
It simply took tenacity of mind
You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky

Verse 3 (MC117) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton 
(Please rise for the Emperor of these United States)
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m Emperor Norton
Dispensing with pleasantries, it’s rather important
To keep to the meat of my great proclamation
Wherein I begin to rule over our nation
Drastic? Perhaps, but I’m sick of hypocrisy
Really, though, how’s that been going, Democracy?
(Awkward.) It’s currently urgent, see, 
You can’t bribe someone who prints his own currency
Congress is now defunct,
Eliminating both parties
America’s drunk and I’m taking the car keys
It’s hardly surprising they regard me as crazy 
Dropping policies of racial equality 
On the 1880s, so hate me or love me
But salute as I pass cuz there’s no one above me
I’ve reshaped the world to be as I wished it
I’m Norton the First, High Lord of the Misfits

Pre-chorus (Michaelangeflow)
Ya messed with mystics
That's bad for business
We formed resistance
By calling all misfits
(repeat)

Chorus 1
(crowd) Calling all misfits
(Michael) Calling all misfits
(repeat 4x)

Verse 4 (Beefy & Navi) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimothy_(raccoon) & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_orca_attacks
Tag team, back again
Just do crime with your animal friends
Let’s two-time this mechanical hell 
M-A-M-M-A-L-S
Look don't touch you'll be happy to see
I got the honorary degree from the university 
But your spine so different! / I don't got a disease   
and I got friends across the world and that includes the high seas
In a pod like peas, we hate peace, 
Gladis Blanca, Killer Whale Queen
Wanna vaycay on a yacht in Mallorca? 
Get your boat bopped by Jimothy and orcas
I’ll bring a snorkel / we’ll bring meat
CEO Trash, ready to eat 
We’ll go looking for a barge to bash
I could settle down in a garbage patch

Pre-chorus (Shael Riley)
Ya messed with mystics
That's bad for business
We formed resistance
By calling all misfits

Chorus 2 (crowd) 
Calling all misfits
(repeat 4x)

Verse 6 (Flexstyle) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Sausages 
Let’s get our affairs in order
When things get ridiculous
Creating indignities
We may need to prepare a reformer…
If you break their rules, are you told you’re a sinner?
They got those ivory towers, they’re controlling the winner
Let all of it simmer, those pulling the levers
Can eat this sausage, just come over for dinner

Pre-chorus (Michaelangeflow)
Ya messed with mystics
That's bad for business
We formed resistance
By calling all misfits
(repeat)

Chorus (crowd)
Calling all misfits
(repeat 8x)