Dearest Plague Rats,

Last week, inside the Asylum Inner Circle, we spent two hours in Striped Stocking Studio building the instrumental for the new single, “Girls Will Be Girls.”

This week, the vocal goes in.

And the vocal is where this song becomes…not what you thought it would be.

The voice on this track needs to sound innocent—genuinely, disarmingly sweet at first, almost not my voice at all—while hiding something underneath the striped stockings that isn’t sweet in the slightest. Something that makes you lean in hard before you realize what you've agreed to, and by then the anesthetic is already pulling you under.

I've never done a vocal like this.
How does one accomplish such a magic trick?

Comping takes. I sang this song dozens of times, and to create the final vocal, I’ve got to choose the takes that flip the intention from purity to threat on just the right syllable.

Breath decisions. Every breath you hear in a finished vocal is a choice. Some stay because the line needs air; others are cut because the line doesn’t deserve it.

Layering & Harmonies. A single voice says one thing. Two voices, carefully placed, can say something else entirely.

This Sunday, Feb. 22, I’m continuing the live studio session inside the Asylum Inner Circle—making these and many more vocal decisions in real time.

I have never done anything like this before.
Ever.

If you’d like to be inside this very intimate experience, the door is here.
Already in the Founders’ Ward? Log in—the studio will be open.

Last time, we ended by playing the full instrumental straight through — harpsichords, violins, 80s synths, all of it.

This time?

Girls will be girls.