Theatre rock, Old school.
"Most of what is witchcraft is technology at the edge. You can't appreciate the pace until you're standing at the edge."
This song is not about witchcraft. It is about advanced technology that few including it's creators understand. So it is witlessly fielded and applied. And as in Forbidden Planet, even the Krell could not rein in their own demons and the technology does as asked. Eventually the survivors flee and blow it up. We don't have a getaway car, our idealists can't build them and in the end, we may stampede the starship. Caveat vendor.
Here are the chords and information about it's creation.
The song structure is AAABCBC which is a little unconventional but not mush. The chord progression is cleveness. See diagram. Basically it is what is called an Andalusian Cadence (See All Along the Watchtower) but uses slash chords (chord on top, note below). THis creates ambiguity and gives the melody more options. It is a little tough to play without practice because it isn't standard voice leading. But tasty.
THe B is a modulation to the parallel major in one way of thinking about it except the A section is technicall in d minor which is relative to F major. The B section is a Beatle thing (See It Don't Come Easy) which borrows chords from it's parallel minor. Then the C section modulates directly to A Major which it the V of D so it feels ok. It also borrows from it's paralell minor and ends on the V of A Major (E). It then goes back to D and repeats the C section to end thus using the melody and words from the first verse over the parallel key of the original.
Tricky? Not really. Basic functional harmony with chord extensions.
The video was easy to make. Use tthe Vivago.ai image generator to make two or more images from your prompt, Then use these as keyframes in the video generator to generate 5 to ten second clips. Put these in Pinnacle with the audio and render. Piece of cake. One hint: treat the prompts gently. It is easy to confuse AI and if it gets confused, it attempts to finish the task anyway (See Forbidden Planet). Sometimes the results are actually surprisingly better than you had in mind. Because you are chewing up credits, generating the images for keyframing is more efficient and effective than spitballing text to video. IOW, use images to generate the video. It's really a lot of fun
Orchestration: BBC Discover Orchestra, Jacob Collier Choir, piano wholes overdubbed with three parts of 12 string to get a Beatles feel in C section. Two part lead electric from Rick. Pretty much Beatle harmonies though I punted the falsetto and be barry. No pitch correction. No editing of breaths. Old school.
