moving forward
here';s smaller mind selections

im the princess of all trades

my wish 4self is my command
your wish is shit

• I have never seen a single episode of The Magic School Bus, despie the album title "Please let this be a normal woman..." making an obvious reference to it.

• During the photoshoot for my appearance on this album cover, I was actually face-down on the floor, as opposed to standing up and looking ahead like the background seems to imply. This uncanny clash of perspectives is an intended effect. The artificial positioning of my hand is also an intentional bit of uncanniness.

See for yourself:

• The cover art went through numerous conceptual revisions before being finalized. I'll let my notes from the time speak for themselves:

— 09/04/2021 5:12 PM
head at edge of bed, hair hanging off, it;s actually on top a big mountain/cliff or something, waterfall, clouds below perspective, paper flying up to camera that reads title of the album (with "sincerely, concerned watcher"), roxy metal logo bottom left

alternatively, depending on how overall album feels;
me blindfolded in darkness under desk on back facing up, phone would be up top peeking over edge to take pic, make sorta smug sorta sensual expression w/ mouth idk

just me on the cover purple probably (laying upside down off bed, potentially topdown-ish diagonal kinda shot with whatever surreal shit lurking behind bed and stiuff where curtains/wall would be)

{thinkinmg now combine that waterfall idea with the other idea i was having, top down view of my face with sleepmask on floor from phone peeking over desk but u can see im surrounded by waterfall cliff stuff yea cool edit , can still have letter floating idea in the top middle actually if move camera up a lil

{nvm just have me face down on floor lol that shit was ugly . &peace sign behind head {also instead of the floating letter maybe it'd look interesting to have it as like, planes flying by with strings carrying one of those big flag message things yknow

• None of the song titles from the earliest version of this album's tracklist made it into the final version. This includes:

• No
• real trap shit
• Interpretation is a Dangerous Mind
• I'm So Trans When I Sip This Glass of Water
• snap my joker
• Validation
• QUEER ZOO

Make of them what you will.

Oh yeah, and there was also going to be a song that went "FUCK JACK DORSEY! FUCK JACK DORSEY!", but it was rendered irrelevant by the Elon Entrapment before I could actually make it. Tragically, Jack got the last laugh.

• The "cartoon character" referred to in TRACK 1's title is canonically Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. The track itself samples a Talkshow Boy song that I can't immediately recall the name of, but I'm sure you can figure it out; it's pretty obvious once you hear it.

• I discovered the song TRACK 2 interpolates ("Spread Like Wildfire" by Blake Palmer) through this YTPMV tutorial I watched as a kid.

• The title of TRACK 4 references a common naming convention for personal NSFW accounts on platforms like Twitter, setting up a subversion of expectations when you realize the song is literally just about staying up too late (i.e being awake After Dark). Hooray for double meaning!

• TRACK 5's ending marks one of the very few times I've gone out of my way to make a track directly transition into the next.

• TRACK 7 prominently samples a piece of stock music licensed to ROBLOX by APM Music, known as "Serious And Thoughtful A", which bizarrely was filed under the genre "Corporate". One of my friends just happened to share this music in a text channel to point out how cool it sounded, and I immediately knew I wanted to sample it. Another friend of mine also wanted to sample it, and I teased them by saying I'd do it first, and I did in fact do it first.

Also, the ending dialog here is sampled from the final episode of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Also also, at one point I was apparently planning to include this wildly unnecessary note of clarification in the track description:

"This isnt really inspired by anyone in particular, at least when it comes to the shit about distance from growing up, because I cant say thats really happened majorly so far, Its just something I worry about happening in the future. So yea some of it might sound melodramatic Because it's a Worry, jackass. I promise Im not nearly as clingy in reality as those lyrics might make me sound. Im too '#Anxious' to annoy people like that anyway Lololol. Hence the parts about being bad at reaching out to old friends and initiating things myself. Now that part IS reality"

Genuinely have no idea what compelled me to write this, or why I felt the need to mask it with layers of Funny Typing. I suppose it was scrapped for good reason.

• TRACK 8's instrumental was built entirely out of a single kick drum and some Storm and Stress samples. Except for that other drum loop towards the end. Fuck, I forgot about that. Fact ruined.

Here's a replacement fact: I originally wanted this track to be the 7th, matching the "777" in its title, but unfortunately this didn't work out, and I had to prioritize sequencing quality over satisfying numerology.

• TRACK 12 samples two of my top favorite K.K. Slider songs: "Hypno K.K." and "K.K. Synth". It also samples this specific left/right channel test that I've used numerous times over the years, sometimes for technical reasons, and sometimes to check my actual hearing.

• The only reason I didn't make TRACK 14 13 minutes and 37 seconds long (to signify "1337", to signify Classic Internet, because Caramelldansen is a Classic Internet Thing) was because I was afraid people would assume its length was entirely "artificial" and solely done to make that reference, when in reality it just naturally ended up being 13 minutes long. This was a needless act of cowardice on my part, and my biggest regret with the album.

Also, when I sing the line "Who'd rather feel the fire", I'm actually singing "Who'd rather fail the fire", as it was originally written. I later retconned this by simply editing the lyrics on Bandcamp, because I thought "feel" better expressed what I was trying to say there.

• The quiet drone at the very end of TRACK 15 is sampled directly from the original version of the song I was covering ("Why Don't We Do It in the Little Deuce Coup?" by Clayton Counts), because it was the one thing I didn't feel like finding a way to manually recreate. It's a really odd sound!