Deftones
My Own Summer (Shove It)
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0:00–0:17 Locks the riff contract
Distorted guitar opens alone around 0:06, then drums and bass enter around 0:17 and seat a jagged, repeating chug. The track states its motor and harmonic floor before any voice arrives.
0:17–1:01 Soft voice rides the grind
A near-whispered vocal enters over the still-heavy riff—first address (Hey you, big star), a brief instrumental cut, then the voice returns and tightens toward the turn. The section keeps the riff unbroken while the lyric leans in.
1:01–1:22 Screamed refrain hits
The vocal flips to full scream on the shove it cycle as guitars and drums thicken into a denser wall. The refrain is proved once, then the wall pulls back.
1:22–2:11 Resets and reruns the contract
The opening riff returns clean. Soft verse two re-enters on the same groove (I think God is moving its tongue / in my own summer), then the screamed refrain reloads and spends itself again. Repetition does the formal work: same frame, second pass.
2:11–3:25 Bridge thins, then gathers
Voice drops out for grinding riff and bass pulse; density later falls to sparse ringing chords. Soft vocal re-enters over the reduced groove (the shade is a tool), then guitars and drums swell until the bed is a full wall again—delay and rebuild rather than a third early chorus.
3:25–3:45 Final shove, hard cut
Screamed vocal bursts back over the massed riff for a last refrain surge. A final heavy chord rings and breaks into silence; the form ends by rupture, not fade.
The song is a held riff engine that twice trades whisper for scream, opens a thinned middle, then returns the scream only long enough to stop cold.
Last updated Aug 23, 2026 · Written with Grok 4.5 · Galdr 0.7.0.dev0 · Inner Ear Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
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