"Taco's Tirade" is a song featured in "Truth or Flare". It was written and composed by Ben Cross, and was musically arranged by Adam Haplin. The song was performed by Rheagan Rizio as Taco and Justin Chapman as MePad respectively. The song was released on several streaming platforms on August 17, 2024.
This song is about Taco's true feelings as she deals with the consequences of her actions from "Journey Through Memory Lane (Part 2)" and "Hatching the Plan", which cost her all of her friendships and turned her into an outcast from the other contestants, causing her to sabotage the game as she believes she's incapable of changing. Whilst MePad desperately tries to persuade her to regenerate and start over.
Lyrics[]
Taco:
Any moment now...
MePad:
Are you sure this is what you want?
Taco:
(Scoff) Oh spare me your spin, you tablet tabloid. If you want to psychoanalyze someone, don't look at me.
Taco(sung):
Look at them! It's so pathetic,
How they run to fetch their sticks.
Sure, call me polemic, unsympathetic,
At least I know other tricks!
Look at me and all you'll see is the debris of some defective outcast,
A frenetic, antithetic (if poetic) little iconoclast,
But I won't live in the past.
Taco(spoken):
I almost won this game once, you know. But!
Taco(sung):
History is rearranged just to credit those who win the glory,
So reality is changed in the edit when they spin the story,
And we choose, to feel this pain,
And we lose, more than we gain...
But I will break this cycle,
Of mistakes, unlike all,
Of these snakes whom I call to condemn,
If I can't win the prize,
I'll play this last reprisal,
Just to bring their lies all to an end.
Taco(spoken): -Ack!
MePad: You need regeneration.
Taco: Unfortunately, I don't have much faith in that process.
MePad: Of course not.
Taco: Why "of course not?".
MePad: You believe yourself to be incapable of starting over, in more ways than one. I do not know who you lost, but is it not possible to get them back?
Taco(sung):
"Clear the slate, start again",
Are you hearing how preposterous that sounds?
How do you not comprehend that for someone with my MONSTROUS BACKGROUND,
the whole slate has fallen apart!
MePad(sung):
Taco that is not true.
There are other ways to-
Taco:
Its too late-
MePad:
It's not too late,
Taco:
For me to restart!
Taco:
But it's not I, its they,
(Let us talk about it when your),
Who deign to play this game, so,
(head is not so clouded. You're no),
Cruel and inhumane, base and uncouth,
(menace, Taco, how did they hurt you?)
(Please think this through)
I think they're too afraid to,
(Feeling double-crossed is part of),
Bear the bed they've made,
(Dealing with a loss, yes, but the),
Can't bring themselves to face the awful truth.
(Healing is a process, that's the truth)
Taco:
So I'm turning up the heat to "sauté",
I've a beef to get grilled,
But I fully guarantee that today all the beans that get spilled,
Won't be mine, no I'm fine,
Shhhh...
Now it's time...
Credits[]
PERFORMED BY:
- Rheagan Rizio
- Justin Chapman
MUSIC AND LYRICS:
- Benjamin Cross
MUSICAL ARRANGEMENT:
- Adam Halpin
MIXING ENGINEER:
- Hunter Bass
RECORDING ENGINEER:
- Thom Duell of Soundtek Studios
Trivia[]
- This is the fourth song where a non-contestant sings, the first being Keep On Cleaning (however that song is sung as a sextet, even though it focuses on Soap).
- This coincidentally, is also the third musical number that runs as a duet.
- This is the second song to be sung by no contestants who were currently competing in season 2. The first one being A Party.
- This is the first 'villain' song in the Inanimate Insanity franchise.
- This is the first time a co-host sings a song, and the second time host sings, the first being OJ in Keep On Cleaning.
- This was the only song to be given its own separate album, unlike the rest of the musical numbers throughout Season 2.
- This was before The Future Is So Yesterday and Karma Waits, which also received its own album on several streaming services.
- This song is written in the key of C-sharp harmonic minor, which then progresses to D harmonic minor when MePad begins to sing alongside Taco.
- This is the third song with the word "Taco" in the name, the other two being Taco Tango, and Taco's Sour Scheme.
- It was given a reprisal to pay tribute to MePad in "I, I", with Taco singing his part instead of her own as a sign to remember him in his honor.
External Links[]
| Songs | |||
| Season 1 | Elimination Time • It's a Ball • The Island Of Misfit Objects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 2 | Keep On Cleaning • A Party • Afterlife in The Limelight • Just Like Me! • Taco's Tirade • The Future Is So Yesterday | ||
| Soundtracks | |||
| Volume 1 | Afterlife in The Limelight • Keep On Cleaning • A Party • Purgatory Mansion • Tribal Council • Bow's Bar • It's a Trap • Taco Tango • Bucket Brigade • Mazed and Confused • An A-Maze-Ing Challenge • Pity Party | ||
| Volume 2 | Just Like Me! • Breaking Apart • Test Tube's Laboratory • Taco's Sour Scheme • Salt & Pepper's World • Meeting the Infinities • Logic and Chaos • The Painting Challenge • Touching Nerves • Just Like Me - Reprise | ||
| Volume 3 | Functional • Mine Your Own Business • Mysteries of Gemory Cave • Swashbucklin' Lightbulb • Lending a Hand • Mischievous Minecarts • Visions of MePhone • Shell of a Fan • | ||
| Volume 4 | Hatching the Plan • Test Tube Tango • A Song for Microphone • The Trials and Tribulations of Test Tube • To the Moon • why wont you believe that i care • Eureka! • On Knife's Edge • Invasion • saying hello, hearing goodbye • Ultimate Elmination • Bright Lights • They're Really Going For It! • dont leave me until i find my way back to you | ||
| Invitational | Invitational Intro • The II3 Recap Song • Lounging Around • Silver Spoon • Catching Cabby • Slingshot! • Floory's New Song (Interlude) • The Rise of Yang • Back to the Hotel • BOX • Cheer Factory! • Piazzolla's Puzzle • Something About Goo • One Bad Day • Ballpoint's Entrance • Tournament Arc • Candle's Meditation (Interlude) • A Lightbulb for Lady Luck • Escaping From Indefinite Island • Tootsy Wootsy • Floored • Elimination Theme • Balloon (Interlude) • Springtastic! • Spring Along! • One Last Attempt • Trains of Thought • Blueberry's Ball • Long Road for Nickel • The Four Forcer • Battle of the Inner-Flames • Unvitationals • Invitational Ultimate Elimination • See you next time! | ||