Made me forget every word 'cause like that's a lot of letters

September 2, 2022 8:11 AM

You might want to listen to ABC, the surprising bilingual collaboration between Polyphia (of boomer bends fame) and Sophia Black. Slightly NSFW lyrics.

It might be the first instrumental prog rock / hyperpop song.
My favorite line in the song is the one that goes ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

posted by signal (5 comments total)

This is fantastic, and in hindsight knowing each part of the collab separately it makes perfect sense they'd combine.

That said, I also want to hear the reverse. Give me the instrumentation of 100 Gecs and the lyrics of Ayreon.
posted by CrystalDave at 9:31 AM on September 2, 2022

Big Bird is surely spinning in his grave at this remake of his song!

(More seriously: As I listened to that, some vague familiarity kept teasing the back of my mind; I couldn't have heard this before could I? Then I realized it's the chords to Just the Two of Us. Neither here nor there, but interesting.)
posted by Greg_Ace at 9:41 AM on September 2, 2022 [2 favorites]

It's so nice that this now has a jaunty pop song for the credits!
posted by dannyboybell at 4:59 PM on September 2, 2022

Oh my God. I need to call my metalhead brother and ask him how he feels now that his new favorite hyper-technical guitar metal band has transformed to a hyper-technical J-pop ensemble.
posted by sixohsix at 7:41 AM on September 5, 2022

Unexpectedly it turns out that I do, in fact, want to listen to that. So thank you.
posted by merlynkline at 3:00 PM on September 18, 2022