Anders Enger Jensen's video: Shame Feat Paulee Alex Bow

Back in 2018 a good friend of mine, Paulee Alex Bow, asked me if I wanted to finish off a song idea he had. I said yes of course and took his recorded midi-bass, piano chords, vocals and guitars and left the rest to me. Using a lot of Yamaha and Roland outboards as well as Nexus2, Vengeance, Phalanx and some other stuff. I treated the vocals as best I can since he likes to record gritty and stuttery distortion vocals. I also had to fatten them up a little for the chorus using pitch shift, phase alignment and some chorus. Lots of Valhalla reverb as well as my trusty Strymon BigSky. The song you hear is the result. Now, it's been out on Distrokid and all the usual channels since then, but I never got around to make a proper video about it. Ideally I envisioned a big production using actual school kids and people, and more fancy graphics etc. But then stuff happened, things got delayed and everything else that happened since then.. until now. So here it is, for better or for worse. And yeah, help us stop bullying! ;) ********************************************************* Written and composed by Alex Paulee Bow Vocals, guitars and some synth parts: Alex Paulee Bow Arranged, mixed and mastered by Anders Enger Jensen Cover art: Reno ********************************************************* Lyrics: It’s 5 past 9 in the holding pen The local class bully making rounds again [You’re fat, you’re ugly, spotty, you are such a geek, you’re thin, you’re speccy, coward what’s the matter, freak?] He patters down the line of the soul defenceless. Dishing out the shame on a cold life sentence, Some of them may carry it for years and years, Some of them may end up in a tarn of tears And the bully has probably, bullies of his own... his vengeance is keen, as his parents demean him at home... Shame... nobody ever seems to own it they just pass it on down the line... Shame... you could be anything you wanted, till the hatred internalised Shame... and then they put you on a drug for what you brain cannot synthesize Shame... makes you feel unsafe in another’s eyes Shame... makes you feel unable to go outside Shame... shame is only lies! People laughed at me for the longest time I thought it was my fault for the longest time I couldn’t shake it off for the longest time I couldn’t shake it off for the longest time All the time I’ve lost, it’s such a shame. Cast off the shackles of shame, baby! Cast off the shackles of shame. Shame... nobody ever seems to own it they just pass it on down the line... Shame... you could be anything you wanted! Shame... and then they put you on a drug for what you brain cannot synthesize Shame... makes you feel unsafe in another’s eyes Shame... makes you feel unable to go outside Shame... shame is only lies!