Bali: Beats of Paradise (2018) Movie Script

♪

(birdsong)

♪

I first heard gamelan

by accident

when I was working

in a used record store.

♪

And somebody just put on

this record called

"Music from the Morning

of the World."

It was Balinese gamelan.

♪

And my head just exploded.

♪

I never heard anything like it.

It was doing all the things

I was trying to do

in my own music, but all

in this very mysterious way.

♪

(flame crackling)

♪

(sizzling)

♪

(clanking)

(sizzling)

(scraping)

♪

(melodic ringing)

♪

When someone listens

to a Balinese gamelan

for the first time,

they have no idea

what they're hearing.

♪

I was just completely sucked

into that world

and fascinated by the dance

and the music and the sound.

It was gamelan music.

♪

The first time

I listened to gamelan,

I did not know much

about the uniqueness,

but once I come

to the United States,

I started to recognize and know

how precious and how unique

gamelan is.

♪

(flames crackling)

♪

It's just the soundtrack

of Balinese life.

♪

(waves crashing)

♪

Pak Wenten was one

of the first people

that I met when I was interested

in gamelan.

He may have been the first

serious Balinese artist

I ever met.

♪

1971, I took my first trip

to Indonesia

with a group of students.

We went to Indonesia

to study gamelan together.

My teacher was a composer,

Pak Tjokro.

His daughter was Nanik,

a dancer,

and her husband

was Nyoman Wenten,

and his importance

is maybe not so much

as an individual artist

but as an ambassador

for Balinese arts.

♪

I was 17 at that time.

I was a member of the

Presidential Mission Culture.

Our mission is to introduce

our culture

to different countries.

(plane soaring)

We went to North Korea.

That is considered

really dangerous at that time.

We performed for Kim Il-sung,

the grandfather

of this new president.

We performed in China

in the place called

Tiananmen Square.

♪

We took a picture with Mao.

I met Mao.

We shook hands with Mao.

We performed

for Kaisar Hirohito,

King Norodom Sihanouk,

King of Thailand.

This incredible feeling.

You cannot really replace it

with other--other gifts

to meet these people.

♪

I have an incredible experience

that affects so much of my life.

Bali is so small,

so I wanted

to actually introduce

the art of music

and dance of Bali

to the world beyond Bali.

So this is my dream.

♪

My life in LA,

incredibly busy.

Monday, I'm here at CalArts.

I teach here almost full day.

In the evening, I go to UCLA.

So, 14 hours every day.

Saturday, we have practice,

maybe perform

with my group here, Burat Wangi.

(applause)

I also perform

many different places.

Montreal, Mexico, to Europe.

♪

It's quite busy

through the year,

mostly involved with music

and dance of Bali.

That's my life.

(applause)

(birdsong)

Being an artist

is not really easy.

A lot of ups and downs,

but I'm very lucky

because I've been able

to work here.

Also I like people interested

in studying gamelan.

♪

He's such an incredible dancer

and musician,

but when you talk to him,

it just feel like he just wants

to be friends with you.

Like when he's teaching you,

it feels the same way;

when you're playing with him,

it feels the same way.

It feels like

you're like being held

in like a blanket or something,

like it's so warm.

♪

I respect him as a teacher,

but there's kind of like

a connection,

a friendship that I feel.

To talk about Bu Nanik,

I think they have a really good

working relationship.

Pak Wenten is working

with the musicians

and Bu Nanik

is running the dancing.

We met through dance.

We teach together.

We always help each other,

Wenten and I.

It's hard to separate the life

without music and dance for us.

Dance and music is like food

to our soul.

♪

(laughing)

Hi, my name is Balawan

and I am from Bali.

I'm going to play my song called

"What's Left in Bali."

The inspiration of this song is,

Bali changed a lot,

so not so many rice fields left.

♪

I'm often asked this question:

Why do young people

from America,

why are they interested

in gamelan

and young people

in Indonesia are not?

♪

It's part of colonial history

that maybe they don't want

to perpetuate.

They want to be part

of a modern world.

♪

(music playing on video)

♪

I like to introduce my culture

to people

from all over the world,

no matter where they are.

So that's my goal,

that's why I get the idea

to make a music video.

It can reach not only a hundred,

two hundred, a thousand,

but a million people.

Having to, of course,

advertising

online, Facebook, maybe YouTube,

maybe as my director,

Livi Zheng, can tell me to do.

♪

Livi Zheng,

she's an Indonesian director.

She directs Hollywood movies.

(applause)

So that's why I need her

to direct this music video.

♪

I don't have that much

experience doing music videos.

Most of my work is narrative,

drama or action.

(shouting)

I really want to help him,

and I guess if he makes it

really different

and maybe he collaborates

with somebody in the U.S.

that's also very unique,

maybe that's, you know,

it's something that people

would want to see.

So Judith Hill approached me

a few months ago.

She was looking for someone

to compose Balinese gamelan.

-Hi!

-Hi.

-How are you?

-Good, good to see you.

This is Pak Wenten

and Bu Nanik.

-Hi, nice to meet you.

-Nice to meet you.

-Judith Hill approached me

and my wife

to compose and to choreograph

for her soul.

So, it's an opportunity for me

to collaborate with her

because she's

an incredible singer

and you can hear her

in YouTube.

♪ I just can't stop loving you

♪ No, baby

I don't know if I had a long

career as a background singer,

but I had a substantial time

with amazing people,

and some of them were

Michael Jackson

and Stevie Wonder.

♪ The way you make me feel

♪

♪ You really turn me on

And that was the end

of my background singing days.

♪ Change is gonna

♪ If only you cry

a little bit longer now ♪

I was always a solo artist.

I went to school as a composer,

and one of the styles

that we learned and embraced

was gamelan music.

I was just completely sucked

into that world

and fascinated by the dance

and the music and the sound,

and everything about it

was just so intriguing to me.

♪ If you cry, cry, cry

♪

Originally it was--it was just

gonna be a traditional piece,

but then the second idea is,

"Let's do a music video."

♪

Thinking about if I can

collaborate with you,

maybe publish a video.

Yeah, we should talk about

what kind of song we should do.

So we'll have

to experiment with it

'cause it's my first time

inserting gamelan

into funk music, so.

(music playing on video)

♪ I'm a rough, rough gutbucket

♪ I know you loving my style

♪

♪ I'm a slow burn for ya,

churn for ya ♪

♪ Honey learned my ways

in the wild ♪

(imitating gamelan melody)

♪ Bucking in the deep down,

kicking up dust ♪

♪ Now I'm rising on top

When I first met him,

I thought,

"Wow, what a sweet man."

He just had such a kindness

and softness to him.

It was just so beautiful.

I could tell he's just full

of so much joy in his heart

and so much love.

(imitating music)

Look at you,

Mr. Funk over here.

(laughing)

I love it.

(typing)

Before I did this project,

I looked

for gamelan videos online

and there weren't

any gamelan music videos

that's of this style,

and even those didn't have

a million views.

So I think it's gonna be

a lot of work.

♪

-To have a million views?

-Maybe more.

Pak Wenten wanted to have

a million views.

I can't control that,

that's--that's like, um...

If someone asked me,

"Could you choreograph this?"

I doubt something for myself.

♪

Can I do it? Can I do it?

I have that doubt, but not him.

So his optimism

will give him problem.

Pak Wenten is basically

competing with Snoop Dogg.

Snoop Dogg has a lot

of funding behind it,

marketing money behind it,

and Pak Wenten don't have that.

I hope he can get

the million views

and I really would like

to see that as well,

and we'll try our best

to do that.

This was my dream come true.

You know, I hope so,

I'll be able

to accomplish something

before I retire

from teaching here in the U.S.

(frogs croaking)

Why I want to retire in Bali?

Because Bali is part of my life.

I was born, grew up in Bali.

♪

Whatever I do, Balinese music

always be part of my life.

♪

We should do your idea first.

Let's just go around

before I like start--

you know what I mean?

And then just playing with it

a little bit, what you think.

I think not everybody

play together at once,

so first maybe

the big instruments,

and then maybe the Calung

because Calung...

Pak Wenten had this idea

of why don't we incorporate

gamelan music into more

of a funk setting?

And that was something

that we have to work in

and get our heads around.

And we're gonna just vibe it out

and see what

we can come up with,

collaboration between

a funk song and gamelan music.

(laughs)

♪

(unintelligible lyrics)

When I first played them

my music,

there was this like

kind of shock reaction

and then

an immediate excitement of,

"Oh, we can do this over here,

we can do this over here."

♪

So today we worked

on two different songs.

One is a very funk-driven,

like, old-school Parliament,

George Clinton, hip hop thing,

which is like, "What on Earth?"

with gamelan.

♪

Lay 'em back a little bit.

(imitating rhythm)

So they're really laid

in the pocket,

and then you guys are just...

You know what I'm saying?

One, two, three, four.

♪

That's good.

It's a very exciting journey

to see what we'll come up with

and how we can create

that world.

♪

It's a collaboration

that has room for their tuning

so that you can hear

their tonation,

then it creates

this interesting dialogue.

♪

Yeah.

♪

When I compose for music video,

I still get my inspiration

from music I grew up with.

♪

(speaking foreign language)

(singing)

(birdsong)

♪

In the history of gamelan,

according to folktale

or legends,

gamelan was made

by Batara Indra.

(flames crackling)

(insects chirring)

Batara Indra made

a musical instrument

called the gong.

♪

(flames crackling)

♪

Before creating a gamelan,

an offering must be made.

♪

The craftsmen

will sometimes fast for days

to purify the body

before embarking

on the gamelan crafting process.

(flames crackling)

That's why the gamelan

contains a spirit.

When the gong was sounded,

it is a sign for meeting

between the guards.

♪

The gamelan making

is learned and passed down

from one generation to the next.

Each craftsman learns

to master a specific task

in the gamelan creation process.

♪

Wood carver learns the intricacy

of the design process

meant for the wooden frame.

♪

There are two common types

of material used

to cast the gamelan instruments,

bronze and iron,

the bronze gamelan being

more expensive and prestigious

because it delivers

a high quality of sound.

(melodic ringing)

♪

Over the years,

I have collected

many different sets

of gamelan.

♪

(birdsong)

♪

So for this music video,

my vision is to shoot it

in a desert,

and we chose Joshua Tree.

♪

There's a lot of challenges

in the process of making

this music video happen.

First of all,

gamelan is an ensemble.

It's made up of instruments

that's big

and there's a lot of them,

and you cannot just bring one

and shoot it.

You have to bring the whole set.

In an orchestra, individuals

own their instruments

and they take them home.

In a gamelan, it's really like

it's one instrument.

It's built together

and it's tuned together.

So you just have to know

a little bit

about the architecture,

the structure of the music,

to be able to listen to it.

The sound of a gamelan

is like a tree.

The trunk of the tree is played

by certain instruments.

♪

In a Balinese gamelan, there are

two of every instrument,

and they have

almost the same notes

except they're tuned

just a tiny bit higher.

♪

And what happens is,

when they play the same part,

you hear this kind of beating.

♪

And that gives

Balinese gamelan

what some people call

a shimmering quality.

The branch and the leaves

and the flowers

are played by the Gangsa family.

♪

And then Kempli,

the time keeper.

(imitating beat)

♪

And then a small instrument

we call Klenang.

♪

And the Ceng ceng.

(imitating rhythm)

And the Reyong,

the part instrument.

♪

Flute.

And they play Rebab.

Next the drum.

♪

The drummer, he's considered

the leader of the ensemble.

So all these different types

of instruments,

that is the gamelan.

♪

Gamelan means the ensemble.

♪

(birdsong)

I kept my Balinese tradition

here in my house.

I built a shrine.

I pray every day, play gamelan.

♪

I've been living here

for 45 years.

I tried to speak English,

but I still feel...

I'm Indonesian.

When I first came to the U.S.,

I have two kids,

daughter and a boy.

The oldest was

two and a half years.

The youngest was eight months.

I came here,

I left my kids back home

with their grandparents

in Indonesia.

The last time

we saw my daughter,

you hug her, you kiss her,

you don't let her go,

but then you had to.

It's really, really,

really, really hard.

I feel kind of bad,

but the long run,

I think it was

the right decision.

Because we believed also that,

before we bring

our children here,

they have to have

a good background

of their culture,

so they should know

Balinese dance.

I based my life and my art,

starting dance when I was young.

♪

(bird squawks)

(insects chirring)

(drumming)

♪

I feel the sound

and the atmosphere,

so unique in the temple.

♪

When you hear

the gamelan playing...

♪

...the audience reacts

to your movement.

♪

That was the greatest feeling

I had, even still now.

Incredible feeling.

My grandfather gave me

art of dancing of Bali.

I wanted to keep his legacy

alive through me.

♪

So that changed my life forever.

♪

(waves crashing)

In Bali,

playing gamelan is part

of the fabric of life

for your entire life.

♪

I didn't know it then,

but the music of gamelan has

always been a part of my life.

Since the moment I was born,

music is more than just art

and performances.

♪

In Bali, the gamelan is used

for all rites of passage

in one's life.

♪

From the moment we are born...

♪

...to the moment we cross over

to the afterlife.

♪

We have many uses for

the gamelan's music and dance.

♪

It is used

for special occasions...

♪

...spiritual events...

♪

...and entertainment.

(applause)

♪

It is not only a big part

of our culture

but also

our Balinese communities.

These momentous occasions

are not meant

to be celebrated alone.

♪

Big events with gamelan

are planned with the help

of the entire village.

These big moments

and celebrations

are what helps bring us

together.

♪

Of course, outside Bali,

the gamelan is most well known

for entertainment.

♪

We have many traditional plays

that use both music and dance

to tell stories.

♪

Stories about love...

♪

...gods...

♪

...and ancient royalty.

♪

A vast majority

of costumes and puppets

are very intricately designed

with the gold coloring

to symbolize nobility

and deities.

♪

The puppet in our play,

I used to portray

otherworldly characters

that are within

our Hindu belief

and ancient stories.

For example, the Barong Lion

is the good king

who fights against evil spirits.

For example, the Rangda.

(screaming)

(bells dinging)

♪

For many events

in the community,

spirituality is infused

with our gamelan

and Hindu tradition.

(dinging)

(chanting)

When someone dies in Bali,

there is a moment of sadness,

of course.

But, we send our loved ones

into the afterlife

with a celebration.

♪

(cheering)

(drumming)

♪

(cheering)

When someone

passes away in Bali,

their body is buried temporarily

up to many years.

The family saves money

in order to

send their loved one

to the afterlife.

♪

The cremation is

a celebration in Bali.

The Ngaben ceremony is often

a communal cremation.

It is one of

the most important ceremonies

of Balinese culture.

♪

When my time comes and I die,

of course

I want gamelan to play.

I want to be remembered

for my teaching,

my performances, and spreading

my Balinese culture.

(fire crackling)

♪

(birdsong)

♪

I just remember I couldn't

take my eyes off of the dancer,

'cause I had never seen

anything like that.

I'd never seen how the eyes

moved, and just the mystery

just sucked me in.

♪

The dance is really old.

The movement is like

a mystery in a way.

♪

In Bali, people say

that the movements

are taken from nature.

In rice paddy,

the leaves are coming out,

and the wind blew.

The leaves are moving sideways.

♪

Sideways shake.

♪

Balinese women used to

carry everything on their heads,

and you see someone,

it's hard to turn your head,

so you use your eyes.

You have the eyes

to get the accent

of the end of a cycle.

♪

So, the movement has that

kind of lizard in the water.

♪

Because of her music,

the movement will not be

completely traditional.

Well, I can do movement,

but I don't ever shake

with that, the music,

so I have to adjust

a little bit,

her music.

Hopefully I get it by tomorrow.

Or soon.

♪

Yes.

We should start the song

like that, okay.

So, I'm gonna record you,

you could just play,

like, some acapella.

-Yes.

-Okay, here we go.

♪

We recorded a bunch of different

gamelan instruments,

everything from the flute

to the different percussions,

to the different gamelan sets.

It gave me lots of

different options to work with.

I think the biggest challenge

with infusing gamelan

into this song is

the intonation and the tuning.

We only get five notes

in the gamelan scale,

which makes it difficult

to work into Western music,

and sometimes things

sound out of tune.

♪

Okay, cool, it's kind of hard,

'cause that's, like,

in a totally different key.

Given the nature of this song

and that it's kind of like

a quirky, unique-sounding song,

I think that

some of that dissonance

adds a certain

type of aggression,

so it'll be interesting

to fit both worlds together.

I pitched it so that it--

it's in the key.

-Yeah.

-But, do you have that note?

I thought--I thought

one of the notes was in there.

Yeah, and go doo-doo-boo.

-Oh, okay.

-Boom-doo,

just like the octave thing.

(dinging)

I collaborate with other people.

It doesn't necessarily change

my way of playing gamelan.

It's just to enrich my ability.

I learn something new,

musically as well as sound,

how to make a new sound

with the gamelan.

It was really fun to play

some of the stuff with Wenten.

It's hard actually.

It's just learning the rhythms,

and really opens up

a whole world of gamelan,

and the possibilities

are just endless.

♪

That was awesome,

I think we got it!

Incredible.

(vocalizing)

♪

I think initially,

the goals of gamelan programs

outside of Indonesia

was to convey traditional art.

But, over time,

the gamelan started

interacting with

its new environment,

and people started

getting creative with it.

♪

So, you have people

like the guitarist Balawan.

Even if he tried hard

to be classical,

his composition

has that Western touch.

♪

So, that's why gamelan now

mixes or combines sound

using Western instruments,

like saxophone.

♪

Or maybe guitar.

♪

I learned Western dance,

modern dance, tap a little bit.

My choreographer uses

Western influence in it.

♪

Yeah!

♪

Thank you very much.

(applauding)

We love new sounds.

The new generation needs to hear

this different kind of sound.

(birdsong)

I was incredibly intrigued

by both of them,

and the collaboration

of the two of them

was just so sweet.

It just made me want

to learn more about them,

and their culture,

and who they are,

and where they're from.

♪

When I see Pak Wenten

and Bu Nanik working together,

it's always really delightful,

'cause I feel like

a lot of times

they try to act

like they're not excited

to dance around each other,

but there's no hiding

how much they enjoy it.

♪

(chuckling)

♪

(applauding)

♪

The challenges

of making this music video

was that we have to

make the music,

we have to

choreograph the dance,

we have to shoot this.

♪

For something like this,

two weeks is

a very tight schedule.

On top of that, the next day,

Pak Wenten and Bu Nanik

flying to Bali.

♪

So, it has to happen perfectly

during this one day.

♪

Gamelan comes in a set,

so we have to bring this gamelan

to Joshua Tree.

We only have one of these,

so if something were to happen

during the transportation,

that's it.

(clinking)

♪

Hopefully it made it

safe here today.

♪

Not so bad.

(chuckling)

(clanking)

♪

We're using Balinese

traditional dance costume,

which take

a long time to change,

because once

you change the costume

you have to change the makeup.

My idea is

to know this gamelan can be

collaborative with anybody.

So, we have to come out

with a very precise idea.

That is the most

challenging thing.

♪

Scene two, take one.

Indonesian dance

is pretty complex.

For me, it's very difficult,

and I grew up in Indonesia.

Just to do the eye movement,

until now I cannot do it.

Judith hasn't done

this type of dancing before,

and she didn't have

that much time to rehearse.

Hopefully she will just nail it

like the first time we shoot it.

Scene three, take one.

♪

All right, one more time,

that's a quick intro.

Okay, okay.

♪

(unintelligible lyrics)

The collaboration

is a little bit hard.

Six, seven, ooh, yeah, eight.

In the beginning

I was a little nervous,

'cause I was like,

I walked in, I was like,

"Okay, what do we do?"

And then,

it started to come together.

♪

♪ I'm a rough,

rough gut bucket ♪

♪ I know you're lovin'

my style ♪

♪ I'm a slow burn for ya,

churn for ya ♪

♪ Honey, learned my ways

in the wild ♪

Cut, okay.

Make a very good video.

I can't wait to see it.

I was worried in the beginning,

'cause this is the first time

having a collaboration

like this,

and I wanted to make sure

the energy was right,

and it made sense with the song,

but as we went through it

the whole day,

the collaboration came together.

♪

♪ You don't wanna mess

with all of this ♪

♪ You know you're

playing with fire ♪

We chose this location

because it has a connection

with the history

of gamelan in America.

This music video was shot

outside Lou Harrison's house,

the most famous

gamelan composer.

♪

♪ Now when I get through

♪ You're sure enough

gonna remember my name ♪

Can you imagine collaborating

with the beautiful singers?

Incredible voice.

♪ Queen of the hill

♪

(vocalizing)

Sound of the gamelan playing,

the dance.

I play and my players

are playing instruments.

So, it was incredible.

It was just a blast,

the ending scene was just

really rewarding

to see the big reveal

of everybody there.

♪

Because it's so unique,

I think we made an impression,

I hope so.

♪

♪ I'm the brand new

queen of the hill ♪

I think we got it,

thank you, guys.

It was awesome.

(cheering and applauding)

I chose to come to the US

because of more opportunity,

and I wanted to bring

the Balinese culture

out from Bali.

♪

Of course, my entire family

is still in Bali.

I'm thinking

when I retire I'll go back,

retire in Bali.

We've been here

for around 40 years.

A long time.

In a way we always want to be,

like, American,

but for myself,

the different culture

between two nations

is really a big one.

♪

(plane engine whirring)

♪

Indonesia consists of

17,000 islands,

so each island

has their own culture.

Our tradition is really strong,

really grounded in a way.

♪

I fell in love with Bali,

because of

how beautiful Bali is.

All the culture.

All the tradition.

All the temples.

It was my wish

to become Balinese.

The people are so open,

and they accept you

like their own family.

It's really touching my heart

to be in Bali,

the land that I love.

♪

I'm happy, but,

I can't stop thinking

about the music video.

♪

Okay, let's play

the last 10 seconds again.

Okay.

I'm really happy

how the music video turned out,

because I think

it's very unique,

and there's nothing like it

that I've ever seen before.

-Yeah, I think that's good.

-Yeah, yeah.

So, hopefully

the public will like it

as much as we liked it,

and hopefully gamelan

will be more known

in the US and internationally,

'cause I think it's an asset

of Indonesian culture.

I feel great, I feel happy.

I'm so confident

we will get a big audience.

Well,

I don't know, but,

hoping that he can,

but he's not good

with all the technology.

Right, he doesn't know

how to use it.

We don't know

how to use it at all.

Well, my marketing plan is,

I'm going to send this

to my friend, Facebook,

WhatsApp, my students.

We will get a big,

big audience for that.

(message tone beeping)

There's a small possibility

we don't get a million views,

but I'm confident.

We will get a million viewers.

(engines whirring)

♪

♪ I'm a rough,

rough gut bucket ♪

♪ I know you're lovin'

my style ♪

Well, I tried my best.

I thought I did a good job.

I collaborated with Judith Hill,

but the music video failed.

Nobody watched it,

nobody's listening.

This is what makes me unhappy.

♪

After 40 years in the US,

you know, I try my best

to spread out the gamelan.

I feel it's not really working.

♪

You can't really predict it.

You always make music

because you're inspired,

and the right people

who are inspired

will also go and see it,

and that's the most

rewarding part about it,

whether it's 50 people

or a million, 2 million people,

the message is gonna get out,

and the energy's gonna get out,

and the right people

will see it and hear it.

♪

(text tones beeping)

♪

(popping tones)

♪

This is really good.

♪

(speaking foreign language)

♪

More than a million.

♪

-It's right there.

-One million viewers.

(chuckling)

♪

People are inspired by gamelan,

by just hearing the sound,

and it starts to appear

in lots of different places.

There was an episode

of Star Trek

where there were

instruments from Bali,

which represented music

from an alien planet.

-Do you still play?

-No.

Fellini's movie Satyricon

has a gamelan in it.

♪

(tires squealing)

There's a Japanese film

called Akira,

and the people who did that

actually studied Balinese music.

(tires squealing)

(engines revving)

♪

Avatar used some sounds

as part of the soundtrack.

It shows that every creative art

can connect with gamelan

in some way.

Gamelan has a place

in kind of every culture.

(vocalizing)

Considering here in America--

how many states in the US,

50 states?

Most of them have gamelan.

(vocalizing)

As well as in Indonesia,

all different types

of spiritual ceremonies

need the gamelan to play.

♪

So, I feel good

about it.

The gamelan will not ever die.

♪

(fire crackling)

♪

When I leave this world,

gamelan music

will keep flourishing,

keep moving on.

The life goes on,

and this part of life,

musical life, I contribute,

so I feel joy

when I leave this world,

because I--

I feel I've been part

of this great movement

called gamelan.

♪

♪ I'm a rough,

rough gut bucket ♪

♪ I know you're lovin'

my style ♪

♪ I'm a slow burn for ya,

churn for ya ♪

♪ Honey, learned my ways

in the wild ♪

♪ Bucking in the deep down

kicking up dust ♪

♪ Now I'm rising on top

♪ I'll make your heartbeat

pound so hard ♪

♪ Till it drop, drops

♪

♪ You don't wanna mess

with all of this ♪

♪ You know you're

playing with fire ♪

♪ I'll make you so hot, baby,

you're gonna make me ♪

♪ Your one desire

♪ Little Miss J coming at ya,

no shame in my game ♪

♪ And when I get through,

you're sure enough ♪

♪ Gonna remember my name

♪ So holla

if you see me coming ♪

♪ I'm the brand new

queen of the hill ♪

♪

(vocalizing)

♪ Holla if you see me coming

♪ I'm the brand new

queen of the hill ♪

♪

♪ Hey

♪

♪ Hey

♪

♪ I'm the gold chief

stone lioness ♪

♪ Louder than any other

♪ Ruler of the pack,

one queen highness ♪

♪ Reigning fire and water

♪ Water, water me down

and I'll crack sizzle burn ♪

♪ Into a whole new thang

♪ Betta, betta watch it 'cause

I'm coming, coming for ya ♪

♪ Ain't no stopping,

stopping at the sound ♪

♪ Of my thunder shock

♪

♪ Hey

♪ Queen of the hill

♪

♪ Holla if you see me coming

♪ I'm the brand new

queen of the hill ♪

♪

♪ Holla if you see me coming

♪ I'm the brand new

queen of the hill ♪

♪

♪ I'm the brand new

queen of the hill ♪

♪

(singing in foreign language)

♪

(dinging)

Bali: Beats of Paradise (2018) - full transcript