Woo Hoo from Por Vida by Castle Pines

Woo Hoo is absurdist realism in a conversational lyrical narrative. Relying mostly on the mundane or almost boring and banal, the song moves from the everyday to monumental events in a persons life in a satirical and comical way that is sometimes the best way to combat adversity. Partly inspired by "The Stranger" by Albert Camus, and partly based off of actual events that happened in the singer-lyricists life, the song breathes a sense of fatalistic optimism of not letting the exterior situations have affect on the promise that the sun will continue to rise.

Musically, the song takes cues from The Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem and The War on Drugs, allowing the straightforward chordal compositions create hypnotic layering that culminate in a cathartic release in the chorus with multiple melody lines layered over each other. Compositionally the song never rests on a minor chord long enough for it to leave a lingering effect of sadness, but rather it plays between the tonic and dominant to create something that is new but also resoundingly similar to the verse.

Tracklist

2.	Woo Hoo	4:55

Lyrics

I met with an old friend the other day, she said she hadn’t seen me in 13 long years

I looked down on the tarmac and I said, I haven't seen you in that long either

We exchanged smiles and heartbreak and stories by the parked vans with bumper stickers

And without words she said.

“My husband left me and I’m raising these kids on a minimum,

3 part time jobs and shit.

“Well I hope your doing alright with your life, and I’m doing ok with mine, I guess. ”

Well the last time I saw you we were thriving

Well we were doing just fine.

Chorus:

I hope your doing just fine

I hope your doing just fine

I hope your doing alright

I guess I’m doing alright myself

Verse 2:

I haven’t scene my uncle in a shit ton of years, and well you know his heart stopped and he died.

and my grandmother, the one on my dads side, I have to remind her who I am every time I see her.

but I hope that when his kids have Christmas dinner each year

They remember the way that I look and I said to things to them like, “the fire has a good log on it, its burning bright like grandmas eyes.”

And I told my mom I like the way she cooks

I hope she likes the way that I cook too.

And we have Christmas dinner each year

And we have Christmas dinner each year

Chorus:

And we’re just doing alright

And we’re just doing alright

I hope your alright too

I hope your alright too

Credits

from Por Vida, released March 20, 2020

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