Grace Jones - Corporate Cannibal

[progressoid]

Run time: 06:09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgMn2OJmx3w   Posted on YouTube: July 04, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 27, 2009 By DU Member: progressoid Views on DU: 1566

 
Pleased to meet you
Pleased to have you on my plate
Your meat is sweet to me
Your destiny
Your fate
You’re my life support
Your life is my sport

I’m a man-eating machine
I’m a man, a man-eating machine

You won’t hear me laughing, as I terminate your day
You can’t trace my footsteps, as I walk the other way

I can’t get enough prey, pray for me
(I’m a man-eating machine)
I can’t get enough prey, pray for me
(I’m a man-eating machine)
A corporate cannibal, digital criminal
I'm a corporate cannibal, legalized criminal,
Corporate cannibal - eat you like an animal

Employer of the year
Grandmaster of fear
My blood flows satanical, mechanical
Masonical and chemical
Habitual ritual

I’m a man-eating machine
I’m a man, a man-eating machine

I deal in the market, every man, woman and child is a target
A closet full of faceless, nameless, pay more for less, emptiness
I’ll make you scrounge, in my executive lounge
You pay less tax, but I’ll gain more back

My rules, you fools
We can play the money game, greed game, power game, stay insane
Lost in the cell, in this hell
Slave to the rhythm of the corporate prison

I can’t get enough prey, pray for me
(I’m a man-eating machine)
I can’t get enough prey, pray for me
(I’m a man-eating machine)
A corporate cannibal, digital criminal
I'm a corporate cannibal, legalized criminal,
Corporate cannibal - eat you like an animal

I’ll consume my consumers, with no sense of humour
I’ll give you a uniform, chloroform, Sanitize, homogenize, vaporize you

I’m the spark, make the world explode
(I’m a man-eating machine)
I’ll make the world explode
(I’m a man-eating machine)

I’m a man-eating machine...
A corporate cannibal...
Digital criminal...
Legalized crimainal...
Eat you like an animal...

[JuniperLea]

1. Excellent interview in Mojo's Dec 08 issue

She apparently did a lot of acid:)

Did she write this one? It's killer!

[progressoid]

3. Jones said that she was "very obsessed with the subject"

Wikipedia says:

"Originally planned to be the title track of the new album, "Corporate Cannibal" was premiered on YouTube<1> on July 4th, 2008, with a video directed by Nick Hooker<2>, attracting 144,000 views by the time the download single was released late August.

Explaining what lead her to write "Corporate Cannibal" Jones said that she was "very obsessed with the subject" and penned the lyrics with Marc van Eyck. Jones didn't want to release the record on a corporate label due to past disputes. <3>

A limited number of 12" vinyl pressings of Corporate Cannibal were released as well as a promo-only CD

[JuniperLea]

8. Killer!

Good to see this. Thanks.

[msongs]

2. pull up to the bumper baby

loved her when she had that cool purple flat top hair. and when some guy handcuffed himself to her leg when she was performing and she couldn't get him loose - not a part of the show lol

Msongs

[Deja Q]

4. Creepy, wonderful stuff.

Great visual effects, to be sure.

Great music.

Great voice.

Sadly true lyrics.

K&R

[Epiphany4z]

5. oooo that was good

and so creepy sent a chill up my spine....well done!

[Deja Q]

6. Genuine art. But she's not 20 and talking about how bits of her are hanging out, unlike Britney

:(

Grace forever.

[progressoid]

7. Hard to believe she'll be 60 in a couple months. n/t

[Deja Q]

9. NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

I thought she was closer to 50... She looked 25 when she did "A View to a Kill" in 1985...

[progressoid]

11. Tell me about it.

I'm avoiding the reality that I'm approaching (or maybe surpassing) middle age. But it doesn't seem to be working for me as well as it did for Grace.

[specimenfred1984]

10. Love it!

My favorite lines: "I'm a corporate cannibal, legalized criminal, Corporate cannibal - eat you like an animal"

[progressoid]

12. "My rules, you fools"

That's been my feeling obout the system for the last couple decades.

[Deja Q]

17. I must agree.

:(

:kick:

[roody]

13. Grace Jones with Pavarotti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei1Sl7RAmzw&feature=related

[roody]

14. I love Grace, femmy here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXVmlQQiZEs&feature=related

[Deja Q]

15. Thx for the link!! And to add one more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSC2rmCzIjQ&feature=related
(a live version of the same song, from 2009)

[stlsaxman]

16. the other half of the equation- Lene Lovich "New Toy"

Consumerism at its finest.

Top Of The Pops with Thomas Dolby...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VgDSNxlGU&NR=1

Did I ask you for your love?
Did I ask you for your dedication?
I don't want, I don't want your love.
I don't want, I don't want your affection!
But I've got to have the car
I need it for the weekend.
I've got to have the stereo,
And a couple of deletions
I've got to have the freezer
Put some fun back in my eating
I've got to have it all until I'm complete!


I want a New Toy (oh ay oh), to keep my head expanding (ta).
I want a New Toy (oh ay oh), nothing too demanding (ta).
Then when everything is in roses everything is static (ta)
Yeh my New Toy (oh ay oh), you'll find us in the attic.


You.. Sometimes you make me feel... I feel so insecure.
Sometimes you make me feel... nothing at all
I'm sick of the TV
Well look at the news
I'm sick of the radio
But what can you do?
I'm sick of the Hoover
I'm sick of it all, so what can I do?


I get a New Toy (oh ay oh), to keep my head expanding (ta).
I get a New Toy (oh ay oh), nothing too demanding (ta).
Then when everything is in roses you don't get any headroom.
Yeh my New Toy (oh ay oh), you'll find us in the bedroom, yeh.
New Toy
New toy...