Once, in a fit of pique after I'd had enough of the usual rounds of social media self-promotion in all its forms, I posted a poll asking if being amazingly vainglorious was a necessary quality for being successful as a creative. The poll results came back as a resounding "yes".

From the Electric She EP, currently rolling out to streaming platforms. This is essentially a radio edit, the Bandcamp version of the EP also includes the full album version (from Ballyhoodunnit, coming in 2026) and bonus instrumental versions of all tracks.

lyrics:

Never face reality
If you hope to keep your sanity
Dream with fierce ambition
And let nobody say it's wrong
Shine your light out brightly
Though it's not the only one
In a firmament of billions
Burning out but never gone
Ahh...

Sell yourself up and out
Commodify what you're about
Sacrifice integrity
To the chimera of celebrity
Fear to be irrelevant
Don't look at the elephant
Do we really have to discuss
The need to be amazingly vainglorious

The total perspective vortex
Claims another victim
As round the edges merchant ships
Maintain safe orbit
Confidence is influence
And influence is product
And product is to be bought and sold
So don't get high on your own supply
Ahh...

Do your best and do your worst
Before somebody does it first
Build a high and mighty pyre
And feed the haters to the fire
Fear to be irrelevant
Don't look at the elephant
Do we really have to discuss
The need to be amazingly vainglorious

Sell yourself up and out
Commodify what you're about
Sacrifice integrity
To the chimera of celebrity
Build a high and mighty pyre
And feed the haters to the fire
Do your best and do your worst
Be amazingly vainglorious

The need to be amazingly vainglorious
The need to be amazingly vainglorious
The need to be amazingly vainglorious
The need to be amazingly vainglorious

The Need to be Amazingly Vainglorious

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Gender and genre fluid  singer-songwriter and producer from the UK.

I trained as a jazz musician initially on piano and vocal, but I also have a taste for dark, heavy and satirical music and whatever best matches how I feel at the time.  I play all my own instruments, but then so does everybody these days, it's (rightly) what you do with them that counts. 

This soundcloud represents my various identities, projects and collaborations over the years and is used mostly for  generating playlists for my main site at kjkmusic.co.uk .

The Need to be Amazingly Vainglorious

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