Interpretations:I Am A Robot

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The sequel to Become A Robot

After becoming a robot (whoops, too late...), the protagonist is left in a robot body, with a completely infantile memory and intellect. He must be retaught all over again, from everything including the alphabet. He becomes obsessed with the English language and from then on, all he knows how to do is recite the alphabet with young children. Tis a sad life indeed... Mr. Klaw (talk) 13:44, 28 December 2017 (EST)Mr. Klaw

To get back at Mr. Klaw, no, kids just like talking robots. Like, I understand that a lot of songs (most of them) possibly have deeper lore. But kids just like robots.

You are BOTH WRONG! The robot is planning to destroy humanity by getting rid of every child. The robot does this by enticing children by reciting the alphabet with them, trapping them in robot suits. And destroying them. It’s all very clear and simple. SorryForHittingYourEye (talk)

robot war

mr. robot benignly teaches this girl the alphabet - while also giving her a robotic exterior in the meantime. her parents either do not mind or do not care. she returns in I Am A Robot (Type B), searching for more alphabetical wisdom, and mr. robot teaches her how to recite the alphabet super quickly. (he remarks "i didn't expect to see you coming back around" as he is thrilled that his plan is working.) if there were a type C, it would reveal that mr. robot turns the girl into a full-on cyborg and teaches her to process the alphabet at millions of letters per second. type D would reveal mr. robot teaching her that humans are to be either upgraded or exterminated. in the IAARverse there are of course many robots doing this to children across the globe, such that the next generation of humanity is no longer human but is now working to build a giant cyborg - robots will "obey what the children say" because the children are also robots, and are the revolutionaries that result in robots taking over the world. (Become A Robot is of course a schadenfreude-ridden folk song shared by the last human survivors.)

see also mark stewart's As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade and Passivecation Program, two songs similarly utilizing voice modification and spoken word that cover similar themes (and which were released the same year as Become A Robot - coincidence?) and also share the same target audience as I Am A Robot. jk luv u mark. consider also the allegory for children growing up at the mercy of manipulative profit-driven social media corporations, and that this is a joke. --Ncrecc (talk) 06:02, 31 August 2022 (EDT)

also notice how she kicks the girl in the chest at 0:11 for literally no reason --Ncrecc (talk) 22:34, 4 September 2022 (EDT)

Half-decent Speak & Spell impression

Flans is putting his voice through a sample rate reducer (often confused with "bitcrushing", a related digital audio effect) to emulate the sound of early digital audio chips, somewhat similar to the vocal synthesizer chip used in the Speak & Spell. The way he enunciates each letter really reminds me of how the Speak & Spell would read out letters as you typed.

This is neither here nor there, but one of Kraftwerk's most famous songs [1] is entirely composed of similarly digitized voices reciting numbers in several languages over a funky electronic beat. Perhaps this is a subtle nod? --99.0.24.187 21:05, 28 September 2023 (EDT)