Underground

* Album Art
* Art on Soundcloud

**UNDERGROUND** is the opening track and lead single on Neoni's EP, *All My Favorite Monsters*. The song was released On October 28, 2022, the same day as the EP.

Listen to **UNDERGROUND**

## Background

* The tracks title was revealed via Discord on September 30, 2022 when Neoni teased the EP's tracklist
* The track was officially announced on October 24, 2022 via TikTok.
* The album art was made by Simon R Mulligan.
* When promoting the song on TikTok where they showed books that fit the theme of their songs, **UNDERGROUND** was linked to **Six of Crows** by Leigh Bardugo.
* The song has alternative album art on Soundcloud, where it has a green border with the word "Underground" on it.

## Theme

"This song means a lot to us as artists personally, and it means a lot about the community that we’ve all built together around neoni and wars and all the other songs. As independent artists, the world can be a little rough sometimes, It’s hard to get people to pay attention and hear what you’re doing, ‘Cause you don’t have your name and lights, you don’t have the big companies hyping you up, we’re not on billboards. But thus far, that wasn’t our journey, and so we wrote this song from our perspective as a journey as independent artists, but also more in general, I think that there’s a lot of underdogs in this world, a lot of people who didn’t necessarily come into whatever they’re doing at the top of their game but had to start from the underground. This song takes that and puts it on its head of : you’ve built this underground and built this really cool community and all those people who thought they were better than you are having to come down and join you. You don't have to go up and try to be them, because what you are is special, is unique, is alive, is building a community that they want to be a part of. It’s about doing your thing with so much enthusiasm that you build something really cool that other people who may not have gotten it at first now want to be a part of. It’s a song that’s got a lot of rage in it, so many feelings, I think it’s my favourite bridge we’ve ever written. Look out for Easter eggs in this song, and especially in the bridge, so keep your ears out"

## Lyrics

[Intro]

Underground, underground

Welcome to the underground

You know that we run this town

Welcome to the underground

[Verse 1]

Guess who's laughing now?

Look who's on their way down, yeah

Deep in the belly of the beast

You lost all of your authority

The world is a playground

And You're in our game now, yeah

Nobody here will kiss your ring

Nobody's coming when you scream

[Pre Chorus]

You're listening now cause there's blood in the water

We'll show you around but don't mess with the monsters

[Chorus]

Underground, underground

Welcome to the underground

Won't bow down, bow down

There's no kings here, leave your crown

You say that we're vicious

Best to keep your distance

You know that we run this town

Welcome to the underground

[Post-Chorus]

Underground, underground

Under, under, underground

Underground, underground

Under, under, underground

[Verse 3]

We built an empire

I bet you feel inspired

Think you can come and take a piece?

We'll never be a part of your machine

You wasted your time

'Cause we don't play nice

With people who think that they're some different kind

We don't buy they hype

I'd say we don't bite

But you never know

We just might

[Pre Chorus]

You're listening now cause there's blood in the water

We'll show you around but don't mess with the monsters

[Chorus]

Underground, underground

Welcome to the underground

Won't bow down, bow down

There's no kings here, leave your crown

You say that we're vicious

Best to keep your distance

You know that we run this town

Welcome to the underground

[Bridge]

They like to think that they're heroes

And we're just all ones and zeros

Programmed to add to the noise

But to never be seen as an equal

But here comes the sequel

We turned wasteland to wonderland

and now they're interested

They want a taste of this world that we invented

All this attention, it comes unsolicited

Did they really think we'd forget it?

We're cutthroats and criminals

Say we're too difficult

Watch what you say

You're down here with us

And we go for blood

[Chorus]

Underground, underground

Welcome to the underground

Won't bow down, bow down

There's no kings here, leave your crown

You say that we're vicious

Best to keep your distance

You know that we run this town

Welcome to the underground

[Post-Chorus]

Underground, underground

Under, under, underground

Underground, underground

Under, under, underground

Underground, underground

Under, under, underground

Underground, underground

Under, under, underground

## Trivia

* This song references many of their other songs
	+ "We built an empire" references "Empire"
	+ "We'll never be a part of your machine" references "MACHINE"
	+ "We turned wasteland to wonderland" is a reference to both "Wasteland" and "WONDERLAND"
* Caitlin revealed that UNDERGROUND was inspired by Arcane in a Discord Q&A
* The Pre-Chorus line "You're listening now 'cause there's blood in the water" was taken from another unreleased song "Vicious", which they said will likely never be released because it sounded too "techy".

## Sources

1. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7158111655468043566?is\_copy\_url=1&is\_from\_webapp=v1
2. ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@weareneoni/video/7247556302258605358
3. ↑ https://youtu.be/YMggH9w41gQ
4. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/1007820518973509784/1007820519434878996/1060990673186213888