Deri Star

I made this Playlist because Tennis Ball is my favorite BFDI/BFDIA/IDFB/BFB/TPOT character. This Playlist consists of either music I think fits TB's character or just what I think he'd listen to (Meteor Shower is a headcannon of mine. I headcannon that to be TB's favorite song hence why it's first in the Playlist!!)

Tennis Ball Playlist Because He's My Favorite

I made this Playlist because I love GB as a character and I feel like our Bossy Bot isn't getting enough credit. (Also I made a Tennis Ball Playlist already so this felt fair) This has music I think fits her character as well as some headcannons I have about her.

Golfball Playlist Because We Aren't Giving Our Bossy Bot Enough Credit

derivakat playlist

Getting sick of scrolling down, down, down, down...

ARCHIVE #01: ANGER

"Who you are and what you have is not, and never will be, enough."

This concept is pushed onto us from the first moments we can remember. We are plunged into a world that defines "success" with such strict boundaries, that we are given no room to be happy with what we have. We're told to improve ourselves, and in pursuit of a happiness that is always just out of reach, we never stop to be happy with what we have. Every waking moment becomes consumed with these messages. Consume, create, consume, create, consume, create, contribute. I want to do more. I want to escape this vicious Cycle.

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Song by Derivakat & Netrum
Production & Mix by Netrum
Lyrics by Derivakat & Kiba https://twitter.com/kibawastaken
Additional Production by Erick Serna & Matt Ferree
Album Art by Qaramello

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Lyrics:
Wake up, first thing
Always tryna get ahead
No more dreaming
Fragments of it in my head

Addiction is compulsory
Agreeing just to disagree
Pull ourselves apart into debris

‘Cause algorithms haunt me, air your dirty laundry
Hang it all on me
Getting sick of scrolling down, down, down, down
Messed up, give me your confession
Never learn our lessons
Getting sick of scrolling down, down, down, down

Start the countdown
Feeding the anxiety
Blacked out, burnt up
We can’t survive this industry

Just say what’s on your mind
Just shut up you’ll be fine
Just keep letting the cycle run you
Over and over and over again

Taunt me, air your dirty laundry
Hang it all on me
Getting sick of scrolling down, down, down, down
Messed up, give me your confession
Never learn our lessons
Getting sick of scrolling down, down, down, down

Within this black spiral, everyone acts entitled
You’re just one more rival, don’t ever meet your idols
Decline to low vitals, don’t care about survival
Just wanna go viral, we feed this vicious cycle

(Take your own time) but it’s always a race
Nobody will care if you come in second place
(Embrace your identity, don’t be afraid)
But only show the artificial life you create

Fight to stay relevant
Disregard our negligence
It’s evident, it’s prevalent
We’ve halted our development
Doomed to repeat this cycle

‘Cause algorithms haunt me, air your dirty laundry
Hang it all on me
Getting sick of scrolling down, down, down, down
Exhausted, think I finally lost it
Drew the line and crossed it
Getting sick of scrolling down, down, down, down

We’re gonna keep falling
Down, down, down, down
The wheel will go on spinning
‘Round ‘round ‘round ‘round
Never escape scrolling
Down, down, down, down
The cycle keeps going
‘Round ‘round ‘round ‘round

Cycle - Derivakat & Netrum

I'm a classic headcase, diagnosed with terminal velocity

ARCHIVE #01: ANGER
Stream the full EP here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/der...

stuck in 2020 hindsight, worrying about regrets...

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Song by Derivakat, @Cartian  & @YukiXK 
Vocal and Mix by Derivakat
Instrument tracking by @Cartian 
Additional writing by @YukiXK 
Art by Sevenchi https://twitter.com/sevenchiart
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Headcase

Retrovision (Extended Edition)

Sensitive

keep on chasing stars, wondering where you are...

When you offer a wish to a star, but then all it does is take your hopes and leave you behind. Star Trails is a song that echoes sentiments over and over again. To put your faith and trust in somebody, only for them to leave you behind. And you chase after them, lost and confused, clinging to the remaining memories, hoping for some kind of sign that they will never come back to give you. There’s a desire to hold on, to never admit it’s time to let go.

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Credits:
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Star Trails

hopelessly we're intertwined but for a moment, you were mine

while initially working on the concept for this album, I gravitated a lot towards writing about stars, meteors and space as metaphors for wishes and the inevitability of an ending to all things. so this song is about meteors that are fated to fall, but that the fleeting existence and the beauty in the fall (we call it a shooting star) is still something that we as humans marvel at and assign hope to through our wishes.

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Credits:
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Additional Production, Mix & Master by BlueDrak3
Artwork by mangdreams

Fall

stars aren't made for lasting, burnt out in the end

purpose doesn't always feel inherent. if you haven't yet found it, or once you've lost it, how do you get it back? sometimes you just want to want again. I wrote about this concept in 'Castaway' also thinking about how for some objects in space, they float endlessly and never run into anything else.

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Mastering by BlueDrak3  
Artwork by Qaramello

Castaway

searching for something to live beyond my days

I think we only really die when someone remembers us for the last time. we live on through our stories, but I feared for so long that I had nothing worthwhile to say to the world, that I would never amount to much and be forgotten with time. but now I've learned that just being alive makes my voice worth being heard. I want to show you who I am through my writing, so let me be that fleeting melody that lingers just a bit longer in your head

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Credits:
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Guitar by StarlightDaryl
Bass by Riptide
Drums by Cartian
Mastering by BlueDrak3
Artwork by Qaramello

Melody

but the more we go in circles, the less i wanna stay.

in writing this album, I considered a lot about how detesting someone is actually be a desire to be rid of them. a person for whom everyone else puts up with their behavior, but you see them for what they really are. egotistical, selfish, self-destructing. Icarus flying too close to the sun.

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Credits:
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Guitars by Cartian
Additional Production & Mastering by BlueDrak3
Artwork by mangdreams

Downfall

i can't be the only one who feels this way, wishing every night and day won't stay the same

we are stuck in a loneliness epidemic, with a desire to connect with others but no clear way to do it. this repetition of spending every day isolated, staring at my ceiling at the end of the day, wondering if things will ever change.

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Credits:
Writing by Derivakat, BlueDrak3 and Yuki
Vocals by Derivakat
Production, Mix & Master by BlueDrak3
Album Art by Qaramello

Alone

hearts were never meant to last, but they make us feel alive

I wrote this song for me and euni to sing together as a duet! it's a nice, wholesome song about appreciating someone through hard times, even when they're far away. this song was greatly inspired by the phrase "the rain was necessary so the flowers could bloom"

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Credits:
Writing by Derivakat and BlueDrak3
Vocals by Derivakat and eunivrz
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Album Art by Qaramello

Bloom (feat. eunivrz)

what will you reach if you never try?

Since I turned 25 this year, I’ve been thinking a lot about what I would say to myself from 10 years ago, when I was in high school. The lyrics of the song are both a question to my past self, and anyone else struggling with their “desire to live”, however that can be interpreted. How we have to be brave, put in the work, and let go of the things holding us back in order to move forward. Whether it’s through finding connections with others, finding purpose for my art, or figuring out how my experiences have shaped me into who I am, all of these things are my desire to be alive.

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Credits:
Writing by Derivakat & BlueDrak3
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Live

a lifetime of "love you's" inside my head

I was really bad at expressing myself and my feelings with words through much of my early life. I always thought I was a bad songwriter because of this too. So I also had a hard time telling people that I was grateful or appreciative or loving through words. The chorus of the song uses incomplete similes and metaphors to emphasize this, where I’d rather just sing my feelings and take action than put it into words.

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Credits:
Writing by Derivakat and BlueDrak3
Vocals by Derivakat
Production, Mix & Master by BlueDrak3
Album Art by Qaramello

Love You Like

i want to be loved again

this song is about finding someone who makes you believe you are deserving of love. even if it takes a long time. even if you cry your wishes to the stars on a cold spring night. even if you carry your pain from the past, hoping you can still heal. it's never too late to start again.

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Credits:
Writing by Derivakat and Netrum
Vocals by Derivakat
Production & Mix by Netrum
Master by BlueDrak3
Album Art by Qaramello

Late Spring

feeling pressure in my head again, find a way to ease the pain instead

I wrote this song when I was still in college in 2020. it's about feeling lost and unsure about what action to take to move forward. It's paralyzation in the face of a lack of desire. This album not only talks about desire and what it means to want something, but also what happens when you don’t have any desire.

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Credits:
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Master by BlueDrak3
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No Signs

Panic Room

cavetown // devil town v2

Fire Drill

Cavetown

Meteor Shower

Devil Town

This Is Home

Animal Kingdom: Comet

Boys Will Be Bugs

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