MC Bumpz is a sort of joke alter ego I created when I was like 15 and discovered the formant shift knob on some auto tune plugin I was messing around with in Logic. I liked the way my voice sounded formant shifted down a few semitones with heavy autotune, especially with some delays for a nice wet kind of vocal sound, and I thought it sounded distinct enough from the way I usually sing that it deserved to be its own character.
He usually shows up on any kind of song that I make using just midi, because for some reason when I make music in that kind of computer based workflow (rather than sitting down and writing a song on an acoustic guitar like I usually do), I often end up making more like R&B, Dance, and Hip Hop oriented stuff.
This song was very much one of those cases, only this time I felt it needed an opposite vocal to go along with it, which again is just my voice, autotuned and formant shifted, but this time up a few semitones rather than down. For my own convenience inside the project file I had these vocal tracks named MC Bumpz and maybeclaire respectively, so that's why the lyrics have those "singers" notated, even though they're both just different flavours of me.
lyrics
[maybeclaire]
and baby, baby, won't you come around?
baby, baby, won't you come around?
baby, baby, won't you come around?
baby, baby, won't you come around?
and tonight
and tonight
and tonight
and tonight
cause
[MC Bumpz]
i've been waiting for something like this for so long
i've been waiting for something like this for so long
i've been waiting for something like this for so long
i don't wanna wait any longer, my love
my love
my love
my love
[maybeclaire]
cause baby, baby, won't you come around?
and baby, baby, won't you come around?
and baby, baby, won't you come around?
and baby, baby, won't you come around?
and tonight
and tonight
and tonight
and tonight
[Tom]
i'm waiting for something
i'm waiting for something,
waiting for something,
waiting for something
[maybeclaire & MC Bumpz]
maybe you were thinkin that i was someone that you could help
it happens everytime
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