General Elektriks is the brainchild of RV Salters. A French national and ke… Read Full Bio ↴General Elektriks is the brainchild of RV Salters. A French national and keen vintage keyboard player (check the RV Music section for records he’s played on at www.general-elektriks.com), he initiated GE just before moving to San Francisco. Using a computer, his oldschool keys and a SM-57 mike, he started sewing together loops, Funky keyboard licks, ethereal melodies and digital tweaking. GE became a musical journal that followed RV through his move to Seattle, then back down to the Bay Area, Berkeley, where he currently resides. There, he started laying keys down for the Quannum crew. Quannum’s own Lateef The Truth Speaker and Chief Xcel returned the favor by guesting on GE. Consisting of 12 songs from the journal, ‘Cliquety Kliqk’ was first released in France by Bleu Electric, then picked up by Compost for Europe and by Quannum for the US.

Aesthetically, GE is a project that refuses to land in a particular bin at the record store. A mix of vintage sounds, hip hop beats, noir riffs, dreamy vocals, cinematic arrangements and digital twinkle, ‘Cliquety Kliqk’ embraces all of RV’s musical addictions. Radically new yet strangely familiar, General Elektriks is like a friend that you meet for the first time but feel like you’ve known all your life.

Little Lady
General Elektriks Lyrics

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They'll dress your air with daisies
And honeysickle
But watch now child how they're cringing
When you're standing too tall

Hey Little Lady
Men say they own this town, don't let them hold you down
Hey Little Lady

The poems in your eyes, don't let them turn to sighs

Fresh out the womb they lay you
In a spink sugar cage
But now you're burning the candy house down
And sleeping on stage

They'll make you jump through those hoops
The hoops might be rigged

But child they don't even know
You're too hard for them to handle

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of General Elektriks' "Little Lady" tell a story of a young girl who is growing up in a world where men are in control and society is trying to mold her into something she is not. The first lines "They'll dress your air with daisies and honeysuckle" is a metaphor for how society tries to make things seem pleasant and sweet, but they are only doing it to control her. The next line "But watch now child how they're cringing when you're standing too tall" is a warning to the Little Lady that when she starts to show her full potential, people will try to bring her down and make her feel smaller than she is.

The chorus repeats a message of encouragement to the Little Lady, reminding her that men may try to hold her down, but she needs to stand tall and not let them get in her way. The line "The poems in your eyes, don't let them turn to sighs" is a reminder that she has beauty and creativity inside of her that can easily be extinguished if she allows men to control her.

The bridge of the song paints a picture of the Little Lady breaking free from the mold that society has placed her in. "Fresh out the womb they lay you in a spink sugar cage" represents the girl being born into a world that already has expectations and limitations placed on her. However, as she grows into her own person, she begins to rebel against these limitations, "But now you're burning the candy house down and sleeping on stage". She is no longer content with what society expects of her and is breaking free from those constraints.

Overall, "Little Lady" is a song that speaks to anyone who has ever been held back by society's expectations. It encourages listeners to break free from those limitations and stand tall in their own potential, no matter what others may say or do.

Line by Line Meaning

They'll dress your air with daisies
They will surround you with pleasant things

And honeysuckle
And sweet-smelling flowers

But watch now child how they're cringing
But be aware of how they react with discomfort

When you're standing too tall
When you show too much confidence

Hey Little Lady
Addressing the young girl

Men say they own this town, don't let them hold you down
Men think they control this place, don't allow them to oppress you

Hey Little Lady
Addressing the young girl again

The poems in your eyes, don't let them turn to sighs
The emotions you express through your eyes, don't let them become despair

Fresh out the womb they lay you
From the moment you were born

In a spink sugar cage
In a world of alluring deception

But now you're burning the candy house down
But now you are breaking through the illusions