Cadmium (song)

"Cadmium" is a song from the Every Ape and His Brother collection Elefante Elegante Interesante Importante. It is a parody of Evanescence's song "Lithium".

Overview
"Cadmium" was written as a response to the fact that when the Dozerfleet founder first heard the Evanescence song, the drug of lithium didn't first come to mind; but rather, lithium-ion batteries did.

As a joke, therefore, a similar song was made here about nickel-cadmium batteries, and how the urge to have them helps a man overcome his stinginess. The addition of the moral conflict of the man over whether or not to spend his money - and on what - is meant to poke fun at the struggle in the Evanescence song on whether to insist on being depressed all the time or to embrace happiness.

Instead of the girl contemplating whether she should embrace happiness or continually stay depressed, the man is contemplating whether or not his unwillingness to spend money even on the things that matter has robbed him of the chance to know love, far more serious than the fact that he has robbed himself of a good time by refusing to replace worn-out batteries for his remote-controlled car collection.

The genre aim of this specific song is "Gothic Country," an experiment that mocks the Gothic metal scene by combining two genres that normally don't belong together.