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  1. delightfully ingenious and thoroughly convincing Corporate Cannibal

    March 3, 2010
    by Jeanne-Salome Rochat
    contemporary/modern art, dance, discussion, inspiration, performance

    During the stretching sessions of my dance courses, I often happen to broadcast Grace Jones’ Corporate Cannibal piece and while working on the elongation of specific muscles & muscle group, I ask my students to focus on the experience of fascination, which I interpret to be at the crossroads of the imaginary and the corporeal.
    Rather than asking how one would have to define the ontological status of fascination, I actually wonder why fascination proves to be a paradigm “par excellence” to cover, that is to say, both nominate and legitimate, contemporary artistic experience?

    Pleased to meet you, pleased to have you on my plate
    your meat is sweet to me
    your destiny
    your fate

    you’re my life support, your life is my sport

    I’m a man-eating machine
    I’m a man-eating machine

    you won’t hear me laughing, as i terminate your day
    you can’t trace my footsteps, as i walk the other way

    i can’t get enough prey, pray for me
    i can’t get enough prey, pray for me
    (i’m a man-eating machine)
    corporate cannibal, digital criminal
    corporate cannibal, eat you like an animal

    employer of the year, grandmaster of fear
    my blood flows satanical,
    mechanical, masonical and chemical
    habitual ritual

    i’m a man-eating machine
    i’m a man-eating machine

    i deal in the market, every man, woman and child is a target
    a closet full of faceless nameless pay more for less empitness

    i’ll make you scrounge, in my executive lounge
    you pay less tax, but i’ll gain more back

    my rules, you fools

    we can play the money game
    greedgame, power game, stay insane
    lost in the cell, in this hell
    slave to the rhythm of the corporate prison

    i’m a man-eating machine…
    i can’t get enough prey
    pray for me
    corporate cannibal…
    digital criminal…

    i’ll consume my consumers, with no sense of humour
    i’ll give you a uniform, chloroform
    sanatize, homogenize, vaporize… you

    i’m the spark, make the world explode
    i’m a man-eating machine, i’ll make the world explode
    corporate cannibal…

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