Vane: For a moment please picture me, high out of my mind after taking a rip from my roommate’s bong. A bong named John. John the Bong. You see, there’s a feeling of divine introspection when you take a rip from John. And for me, when John’s bliss washed over me and relieved me of the stress of monotonous university life I realized right then and there. Damn. I have GOT to write more about fuckin’
Jamie: TRUE! Somebody get this they a true. I also separately had the realization that I need to write more about fuckin', so I was more than happy to oblige Vane's desire here.
Rice: I was excited to write a funny song personally
Jamie: i mean yeah its got mario paint samples and jerma screaming on it we stay sillyyyyyy
Rice: The thing is we’re all really fucking funny
Vane: we are really funny is the thing. when I initially started rawdog, I started off with a mostly written pre-chorus and a loosely toplined chorus with Teto soundin like she’s auditioning for her high school theatre production of RENT but forgot the lyrics midway through. And it was really funny because I knew I wanted the hook to be “i need a rawdog lovin” but I was scared that would be too much. The most I’ve ever pushed the limit was with the lyrics in Collared. However, I failed to consider that the other foleys are also fans of Same-Sex Relationships.
Vane: If you have a keen ear, you might notice the pre-chorus instrumental here is the post-chorus in the final version!! We decided to reharmonize the pre-chorus to be a bit more tonally ambiguous and sultry, but kept the section as the post-chorus to maintain the goofy/lighthearted vibe of the song.
This song is about gay sex, but it also has a bit of Gender in it. (“I’m not your princess, I’m your martyr.”) I didn’t know where to mention this but it's important to me that you all know this intention. Thank you.
Rice: I wrote the verse melodies. After I wrote the melodies, the other 2 were like, “so do you have any ideas for lyrics?” and I was like “y’all should not let me write lyrics because if you do it’s gonna start with ‘hot dog’”. Needless to say they let me write lyrics
We thought Hayden was the funniest vocalist option, so we went with him as we prioritize the funniest option above all. For one thing, the VIMALION design of him is quite uhhhhhhhh Catholic, so it’s a funny gap moe. Secondly, the vocal modes shown in Hayden’s original demo (“Wallowing” “Introspective”) have always made him seem a little bit sopping wet/pathetic/poor meow meow to us, so we’ve all kind of gotten attached to that mental image even though they tried to make him more respectable by the time of product release. Also, he sounded really good singing the song. So that’s why we picked him.
I was a little bit concerned about this being the first time I seriously used him since I have the unfortunate status of "Official VIMALION Character Designer", so I made this cover in a hurry before rawdog dropped in a shallow attempt to curb how this would affect his image. Lol.
I was also quite intentional about putting this song out after BUTCHER VANITY- I didn’t want us to get pigeonholed into one genre or theme, so we were being pretty careful about the kind of precedent we set. I figured rawdog was quite a deviation from BUTCHER VANITY, and also did good to establish what we’re all about here at FLAVOR FOLEY (gay sex). But then I wrote the “hot dog” lyric so I guess it was still about meat and I actually kind of failed on this front. Hot dogs aren’t real meat anyways it’s fine
Jamie: Also "Hot Dog" is just such a phonetically funny phrase. Two inherently goofy words paired together. Hod dog that's meat
Rice: It’s not meat the point is that it’s not meat hot dogs arent real meat . Hot dogs aren’t even real. Toby Fox made them up for Undertale
Vane: the meat beaterrr
Rice: Also, here is the commentary contribution from our Japanese translator, our good friend Rikikun “DOG NOISE” Dot Com. He’s still working on it.
