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ZZK Records Presents Jackie Mendoza’s "Mousetrap".
“Mousetrap", the third single from Galaxia de Emociones was written and produced by Jackie Mendoza and mixed by Rusty Santos. The instrumentation was recorded in her then Brooklyn apartment at the beginning of the pandemic. The song starts with a trap style beat, fluttery hi-hats, a slappy snare, 808 bassline intertwined with guitar bass, and ukulele, everything accompanied by screeching and whaling synths turned down just beneath the surface to disguise themselves. There is a tension between the melodious inflection of the vocals with the steady beat. “I named the demo “Mousetrap” because I thought it was a fun play on words relating to the trap beats, but it painted an image in my head about how some relationships are like mazes and the breakup is a mousetrap.” The song is about rejection and the feeling of disorientation, solitude, and heartache that come with it. “It feels cliché to call it a breakup song now when it’s been so long since it happened but I was devastated at the time when I wrote it.” Mendoza left New York after a breakup and took a solo drive across the country back to San Diego. “I was driving through Utah in the middle of the night and the stars were so bright and vast. It made my breakup feel small and momentary, it was comforting.” It was the hard goodbye from a relationship and her life in Brooklyn that brought the song to life.
The music video for “Mousetrap”, directed by Artie Tamayo, was filmed in Mendoza’s neighborhood park in Golden Hill, San Diego and the Desert View Tower and a wind turbine farm in the desert. The video starts with a cartoon mouse animated by Karina Cervantes. The mouse is walking through a maze and looking for the cheese they smell in the air. The video then cuts to a live action scene with Mendoza and a mouse character played by Laura Gonzalez. The video follows the breakup and angst that comes with it. Taking inspiration from early 90s music videos like the rawest of breakup songs, Alanis Morissette’s “You Oughta Know” and Slash in the desert scene in the “November Rain” by Guns and Roses, Mendoza lip syncs in the desert in a dramatic manner as drone cameras swoosh around her as she plays bass by the wind turbines. “I wanted this video to have layers and for it to feel raw and ambitious like the ones I would see on MTV in the 90s.”, says Mendoza. The video ends with the mouse escaping the maze, finding the cheese, and smoking a cigarette while gazing out into the Milky Way.
lyrics
I went away with prayer beads on me, prayer beads on me
I’m the one (I can bet) you could do without then (could do without me)
Look me in the eye
Tell me goodbye
Oh it’s outstanding
Oh, lookin at the bar, how low it is now
Oh, the silhouette of a miserable excuse for a goodbye, so goodbye
I wanted to reinvent myself for you
I missed the mark (you can bet) I thought that you’d still be there (you weren’t there)
I thanked you for inviting me in
resented you for spitting me out
Now I am wishing upon a star
gazing at the sky how dark it is now
the Milky Way is morphing into the smoke from your cigarette, cigarette
credits
from Galaxia de Emociones,
released March 3, 2023
Written and performed by Jackie Mendoza
Mixed by Rusty Santos
Mastered by Mike Bozzi
Cover art by Karina Cervantes
Dearest Arooj, firstly thank you. My brother died this year n what can be said about such loss n sadness. I saw n heard you at The end of the Road in England. I spent many years in India n love all the music, poetry of your heritage. Thankyou Arooj❤️ ben1769
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