Electronica Polarity/1
Strongman Sad

(all voices &sounds generated from Donald Trump’s voice; produced by Polarity/1)
Words are opaque; the music tells you what the words mean. By music I mean body language, vocal tone, behavioral history. In Trump's bizarre speech to the CIA, the music was really music. He whined about reports of his inauguration turnout the day before; it wasn't the big big Biggest of all time; the photo showing empty fields which had been filled to capacity for Obama's inauguration. He described this in the high pitched breathy tone he often uses to express shock over nasty things said about him. In this case his voice was a bluesy melody. In his mind this was the CIA’s most urgent issue.
I made only two or three tiny pitch adjustments to the melody as typically made in any recorded song you've heard in the past few decades when the singer goes slightly off pitch. Check out the speech on youTube. Around 9:40 in he starts on the inauguration crowd and continues after a silly untrue allegory about that day’s rain. You'll hear the melody in Strongman Sad.
It was a real challenge to figure out how to present this pathetic lament – Trump actually singing. I decided to make his voice generate every sound on the track: all the harmonies, bass and drums. It took three months of slogging away; lost sleep with dreams full of audio shrapnel and smelly droppings of those little vocal snippets. Finally it morphed into the bluesy tango you hear.