the Kid Lightbulbs song map
Something I thought would be fun: a diagram illustrating all the connective tissue across my music. So I made one in Figjam. I present to you:
This does not go entirely into the archives, but strictly shows the recurring references & motifs across my 4 albums (plus a few of the standalone singles). I might add some of my older stuff to this eventually.
A few fun observations I had while making this:
- The album with the most recurring ideas is clearly STEP INTO THE OCEAN, which has a sort-of suite in the 2nd half expanding on the ideas presented in “she’s too good for me”
- That makes “she’s too good for me” the song with the most recurring motifs
- That said, the ideas with the greatest staying power seem to be the musical motifs which originate in “we don’t belong” (and technically my scrapped 2009 song “skyscrape”), which also appear in “spiral song”, “belong reprise”, “belong 2” and “stay awake”
- “please please please listen to me i’m begging” is the only standalone single with more than 1 reference in another song
- the newest multi-song motif is the B section chord progression from “poor man’s version”, which resurfaces in “i stood in the rain part 1”
