What is “GLITCH” about?
"GLITCH" turns a computer malfunction into a statement of identity. Instead of being perfected "pixel by pixel," the five members cast themselves as the bug nobody can fix, and the verses pile up tech imagery, from buffering and ctrl-alt-delete to a crashed mainframe and rewritten code, to describe breaking out of a programmed mold. The title track sits second on the album, right after the opener "BOOM," and was also issued on its own as a single.
GLITCH lyrics
G-G-G-Glitch!
Prism Five!
Woke up feeling like a different girl
Mirror mirror, who's about to change the world?
Flip the switch, now everything is bright
We don't fit the code and that's alright
They want us perfect, pixel by pixel
But we're the error that became official
Catch me if you can, I'm buffering
Loading something new, it's happening
Three, two, one and then we
Glitch, glitch, we're a glitch in the system
Breaking all the rules, yeah we flipped 'em
Glitch, glitch, can't control what we're feeling
Watch us rewrite, hit the ceiling
G-G-G-Glitch!
We're the bug they can't fix
G-G-G-Glitch!
Five girls and we don't quit
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na glitch!
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na glitch!
Yeah, we came to crash the mainframe
Five different colors, but we share the same flame
They tried to program us, ctrl-alt-delete
But we rewrote the code and now we own the beat
Pixelated dreams turned HD reality
We're the anomaly, not the formality
Don't try to debug us, we're meant to be this way
Prism Five in your system and we're here to stay
Catch me if you can, I'm buffering
Loading something new, it's happening
Three, two, one and then we
Glitch, glitch, we're a glitch in the system
Breaking all the rules, yeah we flipped 'em
Glitch, glitch, can't control what we're feeling
Watch us rewrite, hit the ceiling
G-G-G-Glitch!
We're the bug they can't fix
G-G-G-Glitch!
Five girls and we don't quit
(G-G-G-Glitch!)
...
(System error)
(Reboot in three, two, one)
Glitch, glitch, we're a glitch in the system
Breaking all the rules, yeah we flipped 'em
G-G-G-Glitch!
We're the bug they can't fix
G-G-G-Glitch!
Five girls and we don't quit
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na glitch!