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Donald

by The Punchliners

Released January 20, 2025

Donald is a two-track satirical EP from The Punchliners - a small portrait of a public figure with a famously expansive opinion of himself, told through the medium of overconfident pop songwriting.

The EP

Two pop tracks written from inside the head of a character who is convinced, against all available evidence, that he is the best at everything. Genius opens the EP with the simplest possible setup: a verse that walks through the senses one by one and insists, every time, that the singer is the best - believe me. It's a song that earns its joke by committing to the bit so completely it stops sounding ironic and starts sounding like a manifesto. Big Wall takes the same character and points him at his most famous talking point - the structural fix for every problem is, of course, a wall, preferably the biggest one available.

The story

This is The Punchliners doing what the project was built to do: write a pop EP from the perspective of a character whose self-belief is the whole joke. The satire works because the songs are written without breaking character - there's no winking, no commentary, no narrator stepping in. Just a confident pop voice insisting on its own greatness, over a production that's perfectly happy to play along.

Tracklist
01
Genius
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02
Big Wall
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Written, composed and produced by Lars Curfs. Released on NovelGrooves.