Evolution (Pretty Good Movie/Pretty Good Theory)

Evolution (Pretty Good Movie/Pretty Good Theory)

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The outlandish “Evolution (Pretty Good Movie/Pretty Good Theory)” serves as track 6 of Now the Moon’s Rising, and is all about the boys' alter-egos and personas, assimilating this with the theory of Evolution.

The title also references the 2001 science fiction movie Evolution, where the four main characters discover an alien inside a small comet that hit Earth.

While this is used to recapitulate $uicideboy$‘ typical movie reference insouciance, it is a direct interjection of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution to Ruby’s continuation and development of their alter-egos lore in his verse. The theory says that animals change over time, which correlates with how—he reveals—his personas die, but live on as the undead.

The melody for this song is taken from Garageband’s “Synth Arp” Loop: