Tune into the Madness

Tune into the Madness is a song released on 7 May 2021 by The Stupendium. It features Dan Bull

Description
In Tarsier Studios' Little Nightmares 2 you are thrust once more into a twisted nightmare world of shadows; now lit only by the ominous flicker of countless televisions, as you guide Mono and Six on a journey to the Pale City to discover the mystery of the Thin Man and his broadcasts.

This one was a long time coming! Dan and I began talking about this project back in 2019 when the game was first announced. Dan's 'Dive Into the Madness' was a personal favourite of mine and when pitched the idea of a sequel called 'Tune Into the Madness' he not only liked the idea, but invited me to join him on it!

This was one of the most ambitious live action videos I've ever made, from the multiple physical sets to the location shooting (at night!) to the unprecedented volume of post production. I've been working on this video since January, half of it was actually filmed before my previous video! I'm super happy with the end result and really excited to finally be able to share it with you all!

A huge thanks to my patrons for making this video possible (and Dan's!) and to everyone else who helped put this project together.

Lyrics
AD BREAK 1

Good evening, do you know any good monsters?

Did you ever swerve your car at today’s top speed of 35 miles per hour into an automobile

Do you ever do the dishes for your wife? - I should say not!

Mrs. Carter doesn’t really mind washing her teflon-coated pans

New, vital and fashionable!

Fond of children? Well it’s only natural!

Yes, you can’t get away from it!

There are branches everywhere! And it’s safe?

Yes, sir!

VERSE 1

Deep down down, between the trees

Nestled in the leaves gleams a TV screen

near a small lad sitting in the tall grass

It’s an odd transmission to be broadcast

Listen as we talk dark thoughts and soar past

the watershed line before your bedtime

You’ll panic like a rabbit that is caught in headlights

Reckon we’re manic? of course you’re dead right

You better exercise more caution next time

Or you’ll end up in tomorrow morning’s headlines

Obituary nothing more than “born and then died”

And not a single family member or a friend cried

CHORUS 1

Tune into the madness

Tune into the madness once more

Tune into the madness

Tune into the madness, encore!

AD BREAK 2

This remarkable offer, the first and only one of its kind

Delicious, nutritious breakfast cereals shot from guns!

Yes, sir! You could buy eight additional teaspoons!

VERSE 2

Oh look who's come for tea

Are you sitting comfortably?

All of the children better sit still then

‘Cause when little kiddies fidget then I kill them

Class is now in session - time you learned your lesson

Stare into the glare until your mind is effervescent

Bubbling the troubling you'll find it less depressing

Open up your eyes, you'll be surprised what you might let in

The violent and the tragic - hiding in the static

This silent enigmatic child had better pack it

In – And leave the schedule to the grown ups

Revel in the pestilence Auntie Beeb throws up

AD BREAK 3

As a result of long continuing results in commercial explosives-

Pepsodent’s new, improved formula cleans teeth whiter than ever!

Mh, it certainly does!

Tune into the madness

Pictures handpicked to be sickening, queasy

Tune into the madness

Transfixed and bewitched by the flickering TV

VERSE 3

Hold up, don’t touch that dial

Look at our isle of muck and bile

With a saviour clad in a paper bag

That must be one ugly child

Gaze into the space between the pixels on the screen

There you’ll see a place between the signal and the screams

Feel the oscillation of the crystal in your dreams

Just switch off your brain and let it sizzle in the beams

These scenes some viewers may find disturbing

Violent and unnerving. Frighteningly alluring.

Slightly stomach churning. Why would you be turning

Over? Oh so many programs for discerning

Viewers who are just like you

Eyes locked to the box for the schlock like glue

Shambling in their droves, scrambling their lobes

Get mangled in the strobe ‘til you’re cross eyed too

AD BREAK 4

Here’s a message to millions of people who are continually pale and washed out, weak and run down.

All I do is bring you pounds and pounds of baby food

Good lean butcher’s steak - very satisfying cake Impress this fact upon mother

Boys and girls have overactive oil glands

Don’t say it like that! You’ll make her sound ungainly!

CHORUS 3

Tune into the madness

Tubes swimming with miasmic blackness

Tune into the madness

Sit glued to your viewing apparatus

VERSE 4

Izzy wizzy let’s get busy!

Such a pity diddy kiddies threw a tizzy

Don’t be silly, what’s the trouble, little Timmy?

Itty bitty nippers should be giddy for the TV

Strange lights are disguised in the bright glare

Day time television’s hellish in the right mind

Set, Too much time staring’ll make your eyes square

Any more, you’ll end up like that child there...

Can’t toggle off the gogglebox so pop another bottle top

Top up your cup and sup the propaganda, prost, mazel tov

They say it’s challenging to break a daily habit

Pacified into paralysis: a state of telly addicts

Maybe one day the cathode rays will be chromatic

Bringing colour to the pallor of the faces in the static

Taking off the mask, my behaviour is erratic

Claiming to be sane but I’m just asymptomatic

Wait, did you hear that? someone’s pacing in the attic

What in the blazes could be making such a racket?

Oooh, I say, you gave me a fright there

I think I’m having another little nightmare

CHORUS 4

Tune into the madness

Urchins channel surfing and subservient to the sadness

Zoom in with the cameras

Squirming as the sermon’s stirred into your hippocampus

AD BREAK 5

Cream. Not a soap, not a liquid, but a dainty cream.

It covers everything easily and beautifully

And what an eyeful they’re going to get!

Mhh! Mh-hm-hm.

VERSE 5

Feast your eyes til you’re anaesthetised

Lead a peaceful life for the cheapest price

No need to seek advice or plea to Jesus Christ

In the deep of night you’ll really see the light

No one observes just how ominous the world is when monotonous

Channelling the brightest minds until they turn witless and ponderous

Their alertness is interred in this infernalest sarcophagus

The absurd and the preposterous burned in by the phosphorus

uncertain what lurks under the surface of your consciousness?

Observe it and you’ll learn that it’s perturbing, sick and monstrous

keep surfing through diversions: Uma Therman’s new detergent

Normal service will return after a word from our sponsors

AD BREAK 6

Ladies, what’s your problem?

Gracious! I’ve nothing for the Johnson’s yet!

Keep calm, folks! Buy the gifts that will look more expensive than they are!

200 different formulations of dynamite, so powerful that it’ll kill a rat

Press this secret button right here and an authentic western pistol pops out and fires!

CHORUS 5

Tune into the madness

A bountiful lineup of schooling and comedy!

Huge wins at the Baftas

Bound to be prizes when you’re every nominee...

Tune into the madness

Tune into the madness once more

Tune into the madness

Tune into the madness, encore!

AD BREAK 6

No guest is ever truly happy without the right kind of tea

Well don’t keep staring at it. Taste it!

Getting high on life could be habit forming

You just can’t grow up fast enough can you?