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e​.​t. (clean version)

from Boy of the Year by MEDUSA

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This is the clean (and cleaned-up) version of the E.T. you all know (and love! Thank you!) already. It’s still groovy, menacing, and bitter, with samples from its namesake movie, and vocal sci fi synths. E.T. as in Extra-Terrestrial, as in being treated like an alien, but also as in Estrogen & Testosterone, the sex hormones.

This is the point where Lucifer forgets who he is. Bound to human form, he’s just that: a person. But he’s got this lingering feeling that something isn’t right. He’s different? People seem to treat him like an outsider. Often, that means ‘badly’. In the face of adversity, he gets angry, because he doesn’t understand why some people get to skate through life while he gets treated like trash.

I wrote ET, while deep in the throes of the Big Sad, to make myself feel powerful. Because I didn’t feel like I was. It was right after I cut my hair off and started presenting more masculinely. I went from being invisible to changing grocery stores because men would glare at me. I experienced what I perceived to be discrimination in the workplace and at doctor’s offices. I lost the everyday privilege invisibility gave me and experienced firsthand, for the first time, homophobia.

So I wrote this fat ‘screw you' because there's nothing wrong with me.

lyrics

Sit down
Sit down
Sit down
Sit down

I threw out my Con-Air
I threw out my lipsticks
If i still had long hair
Would I get the good shifts?

I was by the pool
I still had my shirt on
I was feelin cool
Til they put the hurt on

Lady

E and the T
E E and the and the and the
E and the T
E E E and the and the
I don't get it
And the T
E E and the and the and the
E and the T
E E E and the and the

Listen lady
Listen lady
Listen lady
Listen lady

I was at the hospital
I was getting blood drawn
Saw my biological
Then I saw their smile gone

I was at a table
Writing in my serve book
I mentioned my partner
Then I got a weird look

Okay

Lady know you're rocked
Because you don't know what you see
But can you please stop
Looking at me like I'm ET

Lady know you're rocked
Because you don't know what you see
But can you please stop
Looking at me like I'm ET

I don't get it

E and the T
E E and the and the and the
E and the T
E E E and the and the
And the T
E E and the and the and the
E and the T
E E E and the and the
T T T T

I'm not what you see
I'm not what you see

Tell the lady

Sorry and I'd love to stay
But you're not even gonna call me by my name
Sorry and I'd love to stay
But you're not even gonna call me by my name

I thought you were trans
Well I am, that's the Lipton
Woman or a man
G-ddamn I'm a cryptid
Turnt off the E and the T
That I'm sippin
You don't like me, baby
Keep your distance

Lady know you're rocked
Because you don't know what you see
But can you please stop
Looking at me like I'm ET

Lady know you're rocked
Because you don't know what you see
But can you please stop
Looking at me like I'm ET

I'm not what you see
I'm not what you see

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from Boy of the Year, released March 9, 2020

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MEDUSA Buffalo, New York

Medusa is a "revenge pop" musician based in New York. They're pretty sure they subconsciously stole calling their music "___-pop" from their friend Zand, who coined "ugly-pop," but it's way too late in the game to undo it now.

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