3. LUBE Written and produced by Stephanie Fierce
Genre: Indie Rock, Pop 
Song Background and Lyrics
Stephanie Fierce wanted this song to be more of a listening song, hence the overall two minutes out of the 4 of just instrumental playing. But while the lyrics are quite short, it gets straight to the point in a collective kind of way and that's what she wanted with this song. 'Lube' talks about the feeling of prime time or in sexual terms the feeling of wanting to reach an orgasm. This song works. Because not only is it song about anal sex.....it's also double meaning in the sense of breaking free from something so intense. Something that might be out of reach.. It could be anything really. But she specifically wanted it to be about sex.
“ I'm not cutting back or hiding the element of the song. I'm being straightforward and coming clean. It's a listening song as I've stated. This is the song that sort of breaks away from the touchy touchy core of the album and we get into something much more free spirited, edgy and upbeat. You have the fast-sung but understandable lyrics, the stop and go guitars, distorted clavichords that do nothing but compliment the song...... What more could you want? It's more of an indie pop sort of record for me and once I'm giving my fans more of me.”Production and Composition
"LUBE", is the second and last song that does not include the “Fierce Atmosphere”. The song features an ongoing chorus with a jumpy stop and go guitar, as well as an electronic keyboard and a complimenting clavichord that is randomly played in many sections of the song. The song has a summery vibe, adding warmth to the album. The stop and go guitars are played throughout the song, as well as the drumming. All keys of the electronic keyboard are pressed six times at the finish of the chorus. A lengthy instrumental of the stop and go guitar and drum takes over as it finishes off.
Stephanie Fierce puts forward psychedelic like vocals, her range doesn’t grow pretty distant and the song doesn’t really emphasize on the vocals, as they sound faded or as if recorded with low quality equipment. Overall, “LUBE” was recorded, edited, mixed by Stephanie Fierce in four days in the matter of two recording section.
"LUBE" (Lyrics)
Don’t let the turtle be your inspiration,
You’ve been trying for weeks now
But your blow up sex doll deflated
These days, you gotta go the extra mile… for. It. to. work
You’re losing patience for the feeling
But this feeling is for the fortunate only
and you’re starting to get lonely
You disgusting romantic,
which version do you like the most
This feeling is so elastic but it doesn’t last too long
My strength's incompetent,this feeling in parentheses
I’m going to push it to the edge (sel feesh you),
I’m gonna push myself, (SELFISH YOU!)
I’m gonna hurt myself for you
But I’m now discouraged
AND THEN I FAULT.MY.SELF/ WHEN. I. CAN'T
(selfish-you)
And you get your sense of joy, you get your sense of joy
I’m like the tree that stares into the sun,
Looking for what could kill me.......
And needing more, I'm needing mo-ho-ore, I'm needing more
But the feeling's too intense, the idea lost its senses
Just a little lube, Look how easy it all becomes……….
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4. ELECTRIC GUITAR VIRGIN Written and produced by Stephanie Fierce
Genre: Alternative Rock, Minimal Trance, Classical Crossover 
Song Background and Lyrics
After the release of “Dying in the Airwaves” and making her guitar playing debut, Stephanie Fierce was inspired to write a song about guitars and her new found love freedom with them.
“I didn’t want the song to be this typical “rock” song with a guitar solo. So I added a classical crossover section towards the end, where everything settles down. That was bound to happen, anyway. As I’ve said I put boundaries, I didn’t want the song to turn the song into something it was not meant to be or something that didn’t represent me. Very complex to put it all together, but it worked.” The song’s lyric are simple word play with virginity and guitar playing.
Production and Composition
"Electric Guitar Virgin", is the only song of two that does not include the “Fierce Atmosphere” in the instrumentation. The song features an electronica based composition. A forceful instrumentation of a brawling guitar with driven bass, keyboards is heard. The song pays homage to “Electric Club”, mimicking its heavy bass line. The song starts off with a static like beat classified in the dubstep genre however that does not continue throughout the song. Once the chorus kicks in, the electric guitar dominates the overall sound leading up the guitar solo. The guitar solo mimics the chorus with emphasis and acts as a bridge. Due to Steph’s low experience with guitar solos, it’s composed to mimic the chorus. Once the guitar solo is finished, the track goes into this trance fusion like break, leading up to a classical music crossover section above a trip hop influenced beat. Stephanie Fierce arranged the beats with pre-recorded classical pieces. The classical crossover section features a striking violin that builds up to a non-stop 16 second vocal belt, making it the second vocal acrobatic done in “Free”. The song then proceeds with the trip–hop beat while slowly fading out.
Vocals are laid back through most of the song and the lyrics are purposely sung as if Stephanie was reading them out. She almost sounds as if she’s under control and the soprano side is more present. Stephanie Fierce’s vocal ranges from D3- E6 in her 16 second vocal belt. Overall, “Electric Guitar Virgin” was recorded, edited, mixed by Stephanie Fierce in two weeks. It was the last song to be mixed and shipped for the album.
"Electric Guitar Virgin" (Lyrics)
She’s dress in black, with the pic and the spike
But they still say,
she a….Electric Guitar Virgin
She plays it hard, with the tongue out her mouth
But they still say…..
Electric Guitar Virgin
(I couldn't come up with full lyrics of this, so I just put a taster of what the lyrics would look like)
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5. IN LOVE ALONE
Written and produced by Stephanie Fierce
Genre: Alternative Pop, Downtempo, Fierce Atmosphere-Industrial
Song Background and Lyrics
So far while listening to “Free”, you get a sense of tenderness, and humility with the instrumentation of the first two tracks. “Dying in the Airwaves” and “Bird Flu Sung” seem more organized and both songs include a climax that might be predictable. With “Lube” and “Electric Guitar Virgin” you get more of an experimental feel with the electronic elements and with the loose guitar selections, despite “EGV” having an classical like climax towards the end, it was only done purposely to bring you back and not lose its purpose. With the fifth song, Stephanie wanted to mix in the two vibes.
After feeling a bit overwhelmed with the recording process of “Free”, Stephanie Fierce wrote “In Love Alone” inside a New York City train terminal late at night, she placed herself within the group of passengers to give her ambition and a sense of company. But not even that numbed her into normality nor gave her a purpose to finish the song. Steph surprisingly wrote what she could in about 10 minutes, lost all ambition and didn’t finish it leaving the lyrics incomplete. With the song’s lyrics, Steph seems to become the narrator of her own thoughts, opening up about the feelings of her ex-husband Johnny once again. It’s the one song on the album where that she hated, especially throughout the process of actually making it.
“In the process, I was thinking what the hell happened to me. Why am I putting all of this effort into this guy and he’s not even putting any effort into showing affection towards me. Affection and communication is a big part of love. I didn’t understand it because I felt like we had everything we needed to be the best lovers we could possibly be. Money wasn’t an issue and time wasn’t that much of an issue either. Being with this man, felt like being at the mountain top, him missing, and no one to share the view with. I felt like a balloon full of nothing but air. Going up, and up without an actual purpose. So these lyrics are not only a reflection of my annoyance and loss of ambition, at the same time it’s a song about something so simple and cliché that I could in fact have finished. But I didn’t.It’s kind of interesting.” Production and Composition
“I guess you can say that I was trying to make this song as interesting as possible. When I wrote the song, it was already looking out to be some sort of boring ballad. At the time, I was very worn out with looking at myself and after going over the unfinished lyrics, I was pretty bored with the sound I was already creating in my head. Everything about this song was just annoying to me for some reason and til this day I don’t know how it made its way to the album. Maybe the fact that it’s unfinished made it…. finished." “IN LOVE ALONE” jumps back into the Fierce Atmosphere, and goes a bit deeper into the darker soundscape, that was not showcased in “Dying in the Airwaves” and “Bird Flu Sung”. The song also features the more industrial side of the fierce atmosphere that eventually meets up with a collection of brass instruments. The industrial sound, sounds like machinery hitting against each other almost like train tracks, as if the machines are on-going without a purpose. This reflects the “no progression” of the lyrics. Even with the glitchy instrumental parts of the song, the song suffers progression before ending with a collection of brass instruments going off, giving the ear a sense of freedom, escaping from the dark sounds of the Fierce atmosphere, and finally introducing a moment of progression. However, after the collection of brass instruments go off, the song ends and train tracks are heard once more.
“Brass instruments make the perfect sound, if you’re introducing a moment in music. It’s almost welcoming. That moment comes in, the overwhelming sound of brass instruments going off give you a sense of freedom. I never thought I was going to use this part of the “Fierce Atmosphere so soon into making the album to be quite honest.” Stephanie Fierce’s vocals are sound as if annoyed and almost forced through boredom. Her range is heard all over the place and it doesn’t seem structured. Overall, “In Love Alone” was recorded, edited, mixed by Stephanie Fierce in the matter of ten days in the process of three recording sessions.
"In Love Alone" (Lyrics) "Are you here with me
(Whispers)You really had me going,
but left me empty handed
In need of it...................
I'm screaming with confidence I swear
Out this coffin you put me in
With one eye open, as my intuition ends
It seemed like I was in love
In love with with the air
Freely, but waiting for the rush to begin
In reality............
You had the floor above my head
and I was falling effortlessly
Viewing the picture all alone
In a cold mountain top
How nice could that possibly be?
Not knowing or receiving anything
And it feels like I’m In Love alone....
what an irritation
This loneliness brings Irritation
And it feels like……
In Love Alone, giving my everything
and I still look for your love I confess
But it’s nowhere to be found"
