Cyborg Centos

Tiffany Xie & Phoebe Pan

Centos collaged from the following song lyrics: “Cyber Stockholm Syndrome” by Rina Sawayama; “Faceshopping” by SOPHIE; “Immaterial” by SOPHIE; “Simulation Swarm” by Big Thief; “Spud Infinity” by Big Thief; “Femmebot” by Charli XCX; “home with you” by fka twigs; “Sci-fi Silence” by Florist; “N.E.O.” by CHAI; “Take A Byte” by Janelle Monáe; “The Princess and the Clock” by Kero Kero Bonito.

Cyborg Cento (Tiffany’s Version)

I’ve never seen a hero like me in a sci-fi:
artificial bloom, hydroponic skin, pretty

but sad inside---isn’t she beautiful?
Crashing slowly, your code is programmed

not to love the bugs in me, so I’ll
lick an angel just to purify again

Accepting the alien you’ve rejected
You could be me and I could be you

We are so cute nice face:
Immaterial girls (anyhow, any place)

Tell me, where do I exist?
I’m real when I shop my face

I’ll love you in this space and time
I’ll be your femmebot

I was just a lonely girl
in the eyes of my inner child

How many lies must I become
to roam all over my cyber fantasy

Cyborg Cento (Phoebe’s Version)

I’ve never seen a hero
like me in a sci-fi flicker,
fever, fill the form of artificial
bloom, hydroponic skin healing
behind the armor that I hid
behind how many lies I must become
in this pretty but sad cyberworld.
Take a byte: I’m that special
drone inside the crashing fluorescence.
I’ll lick an angel just to purify my fantasy,
a lonely girl free to roam all over
pictures of the man that made her.
When I shop my face, I’m real.
When I say celestial, I mean extra-
terrestrial, I mean accepting the alien
you’ve rejected in your own heart.
Tell me, where do I exist?

            immaterial girls (anyhow, any place)

                                                                                immaterial boys (anywhere, anyone)

                                                    I’ll be your femmebot

I am connected, I am the girl you want to watch

                                                                                        I’m an upgrade of your stereotype

                                        You could be me and I could be you

        We are so cute nice face

                                                                        that silеnce, sci-fi silence

I’ll love you in this space and time