Rebecca Pittenger's Podcast of Weird Songs

This is a reprise of a song waaaaay early on in this possession album. In this song, the fire god talks to the girl through the flame of her lighter and tells her there's a mission - a thing they can do - to help out the world. It has to do with him knowing when wildfires are gonna start. If he tells her one is coming, can she warn people that it's coming so they can put it out? 

Here's the next sorta-song in the possession album - it's the introduction of the song I'm hoping to do next week - I probably won't get to it this weekend cuz I'm gonna have company.

Sorry to keep going on and on about how my voice is fucked up and how much my music is sucking these days. I mean, like, I've had writer's blocks and all that in the past, but for some reason, this particular writer's block is extra special shitty-feeling. And the mystery of my janky, fucked up voice continues to persist. I think the icky bad feelings over this musical slump are extra-special pronounced cuz 2021 was such a good year for music, and people started following my music and now I'm disappointing everyone with poop-worthy songs. 

This song is from the point of view of The Tax Man, whom nobody likes. Am I the only one who feels this way...like at any moment, I'm gonna get in trouble, even though I'm doin' everything I can to make sure the powers-that-be don't get mad at me? One little misstep, and it's off to debtor's prison or some dumb ass thing like that.

This is the next song in the possession album: The girl finally tells the dudes what's going Yeah, like some of the other tunes, I tagged it as bein' explicit not cuz of f-bombs, but cuz there's mention of pot in it, or cannabis, as some people call it.

The hook for this song came from a dream. I was just kinda dorking around, in creating this song. I tagged it explicit, not because of any f-bombs, but because there's a mention of pot in it. 

This is the next (very short) song in the Possession Album; the girl is getting ready to tell her friends about the weird whatever-it-is that she's experiencing.

In this song, Grandma and Grandpa muse about how things were different in the old times than they are now. In lots of ways, they were better, according to Grandma and Grandpa.

I’m tryin’ to put the feelings of dehumanization I get into words, when I think about the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Here’s what I came up with: One day, I went to bed, a regular, plain-old American citizen with all the rights afforded plain-old, ordinary American citizens. The next day, I woke up to find that my uterus is property of the state. It’s a truly icky feeling.I mean, I live in California, where things should be expected to stay the same as they were, but that doesn’t erase the icky feelings of dehumanization I and over half of the population are experiencing these days.I know this song sounds a bit over-dramatic, but when you think about it, the level of drama fits the situation. Many women are going to die - women who live in states where abortion is banned or hard to get, women who don't have the money or resources to go to another state to get abortion - and for whatever reason don't want to have a kid - will turn to The Coat Hanger Solution. Maybe they can't afford to have a kid; maybe they have health problems that make a pregnancy lethal to them; or maybe they're women who were raped and don't want to carry their rapist's child - many of them will turn to The Coat Hanger Solution. How many women will die because of this supreme court decision? Hundreds? Thousands?Congratulations, Supreme Court. You've just murdered lots of women. You have LITERALLY just murdered lots of women.

This is the next song in the possession album. Timmy, Bobby, and Father O'Malley see the girl looking blissed out about something and they wonder what it is.