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Aliens
Metadata
- title
- Aliens
- meaning
- Heaven as alien convention: everyone's religion was right, they might be sexy, you might be the alien: and if dogs go, why can't Alf?
- year
- 2023
- release
- MÖB
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- credits
- Written, performed, produced, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations.
- apple
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/aliens/1708670332?i=1708670338
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/album/7kAZdCuQ89YJHbJQI0xeOB
- themes
- heaven
- religion
- absurdism
- MÖB
- humor
- isrc
- QZTB22361895
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- draft
- false
Lyrics
What if when you go to heaven There's like lots of aliens And like they're all talking About like how their religion was right And those aliens are like Kinda sexy wait might I be an alien to them? If we all go to heaven What then yeah, what then Oh oh, yeah, what then? If dogs go to heaven Then why can't Alf?
Content
Track five on MÖB, a theology bit under two minutes, spoken-sung like a shower thought that won't leave. What if heaven is full of aliens all arguing their religion was the correct one, and they're kinda sexy, and wait, might I be an alien to them? The chorus raises the stakes without settling them (if we all go to heaven, what then?) before the Alf) punchline turns 80s sitcom into eschatology: if dogs go to heaven, then why can't Alf?
It sits after DMV on an album that keeps cycling anxiety, memory, and silly observation. Not a koan with an answer, a question with a joke attached.