Making God Laugh

Song Sheet - Disc One / Single / Date TBD (the Sept 18 slot went to Shapeshifter)

Fan hook. If you've ever caught yourself pushing on a closed pull door — this song is for you.

I started taking vocal lessons seriously this year. At 42. Better late than never, right.

The first thing my teacher told me was that I'd been pushing way too hard. For years. The way I'd been hitting high notes — squeezing, straining, white-knuckling my way to the top of my range — was the opposite of what was supposed to happen. The high notes don't come from more effort. They come from less. You stop squeezing and they open up.

I sat with that for about three days.

Because that is the entire story of my life. I have always taken the longest possible distance between two points. I've made everything harder than it needed to be. I've put my blinders on and bulldozed through when my body was screaming no and my ego kept saying yes anyway.

The whole time I thought I was being independent. Forging my own path. Doing it my way.

I was just making God laugh.

There were always signs. There were always people who showed up to point me toward an easier way. I never listened. I had to learn it through trial and error. Every single time.

Now, before you press play, I should warn you. Knowing me, you probably expect this to be the song where I show off the high notes I just learned how to actually hit. It's not. Making God Laugh is one of the lowest songs I sing on the whole record. Almost rappy. No high notes anywhere. LOL. Of course.

The lesson of this song isn't can you hit the high note. The lesson is what happens when you finally stop trying to.

• Nobody Wants to Hear — Make God Laugh versions: "be this honest" / "greenlit going to Nashville" / "in the music industry asked what she had to say" / "hyperfocusing for two years and writing 26 songs" — full lines in the Hook Library bucket below.
• Nature documentary narration hooks (Swipe #016): "She has made plans. God is laughing." / "Here we observe the independent artist in her natural habitat."
• "My videographer asked what I was on. I said the spectrum. He said okay." — all hook versions in the cartoon animals bucket below.
• Hustle culture pivot hooks — Make God Laugh version: the "tell God your plans" angle (Swipe #007 stitch → Making God Laugh)
• Cartoon animals MV hooks — below.
• Sounds like: TBD — brain dump needed from KB

• "Nobody asked a 43-year-old woman to be this honest. She was anyway."
• "Nobody greenlit a 43-year-old woman going to Nashville to record the record of her life. She went anyway."
• "Nobody in the music industry asked a 43-year-old woman what she had to say. Here it is."
• "Nobody told a 43-year-old woman that hyperfocusing for two years and writing 26 songs was unusual behavior."

• The origin: KB pitched her videographer a music video with cartoon animals. He asked what she was on when she came up with that. She said "the spectrum." He didn't have a follow-up question. This is already a piece of content.
• Best delivery: "My videographer asked me what I was on when I pitched him cartoon animals for a music video. I said the spectrum. He said okay." — the "he said okay" is the button. Don't add anything after it.
• Most shareable: "The spectrum is a hell of a drug. Cartoon animals. Music video. Make God Laugh. That's all I'll say."
• Best comment bait: "Make God Laugh music video update: there will be cartoon animals. My videographer asked what I was on. I said the spectrum. God is laughing."
• Best for the double album / AuDHD story: "Normal people pitch music videos with performance shots and mood boards. I pitched cartoon animals. My videographer asked what I was on. I said the spectrum. He's still my videographer."
• Execution: Talking head, casual. Could also be a text-on-screen format with a clip of KB looking completely unbothered. The delivery is the joke — keep it deadpan.
• When to post: During MV pre-production or filming. "Behind the scenes of the most unhinged music video decision I've ever made" is its own content series.
• Note for Make God Laugh song sheet: Log the cartoon animals MV concept and the spectrum content moment when that sheet is built.

• Cartoon animals music video concept
• "My videographer asked what I was on. I said the spectrum. He said okay." — full hook options
• Hustle culture stitch → Making God Laugh pivot version

• Source: Instagram Reel — https://www.instagram.com/reel/Daq47u_SDX_/?igsh=aTJnZDg3cTdobmdm
• What it is: Nic D is followed around by a camera crew in a deadpan nature documentary style — old-timey narration identifying him as a "caveman" who "gets food for the tribe" and "makes fire." Then it cuts to the song and the lyric is literally "I'm a caveman, I make fire." The narration setup and the song payoff are the same line. Funny, well-executed, totally ownable format.
• Why KB dropped it: The format is reusable for any song where a lyric is specific and funny enough to become the punchline. The genius is that the nature documentary narration sets up the absurdity and then the song delivers it straight — making the lyric funnier in context than it would be alone.
• The format principle: Deadpan nature documentary narration describes KB doing something ordinary → the narration language mirrors a lyric → hard cut to song where that exact lyric plays. The setup and payoff are the same words.
• Best MCA candidates:
• Make God Laugh — "Here we observe the independent artist in her natural habitat. She has made plans. God is laughing." → cut to Make God Laugh chorus. This one writes itself.
• You Better Fix My Life — "Here we observe the specimen on her treadmill. She has been told this will fix her life. She is still waiting." → cut to Fix My Life. Pairs perfectly with the treadmill music video concept.
• Walking Contradiction — "Here we observe a creature that defies easy classification. Scientists have been unable to place her in a single category." → cut to Walking Contradiction.
• Shaped By My Sin — "Here we observe the subject adding cowbell. She has no regrets." → cut to Shaped By My Sin.
• Execution note: The narration voice matters — needs to be deadpan, slightly old-timey, completely sincere. KB doing her own VO in that register would be funnier than sourcing someone else. The comedy lives in her playing it completely straight.

• Confirmed: every single in the campaign gets its own billboard. Not a phase-4 or cash-flow-permitting extra — a locked part of each release.
• Billboard copy: To add — write this song's billboard line here.