The following commentary is properly placed on this track's main release, Homestuck Vol. 9.

6/17/2012with respect to this album —
about 5 days later captured 12/17/2018 Michael Guy Bowman ✑ Tumblr

This track was an attempt to try something in the same vain as the soundtrack to Jet Set Radio Future which was recommended to me by friends Erik Scheele and Richard Gung. Composer Hideki Naganuma has created some of the most intricate and engaging pieces of dance music I've ever heard - his signature approach is his construction of entire songs around only a handful of samples (check out "Funky Dealer" for a good example).

Going off of the notion that there aught to be some music dedicated to the 3 years that John, Jade, and Davesprite spend by killing time in Ghostbusters 2 MMORPG, I recorded myself singing the famous exclamation uttered by Ray Parker Jr partway through the legendary 1984 single. What is the deal with that line, really? Apparently chasing ghosts isn't just a public service for Mr. Parker - it gets him off.

The majority of the track is driven by drum and crowd samples with some very funky but intentionally primitive synths on top. I liked the idea of building up to some big climactic house beat, and the climax of the song is sort of an homage to Kalibration and his EDM project Screamcatcher (albeit missing all the cool).

9/11/2017with respect to this album —
about 5 years, 3 months later Michael Guy Bowman ✑ Bowmantown Discords

Busting makes me feel ahead of the game

RJ once called me a Neil Wannabe I think on Twitter
Richard called me "budget Lemon Demon" in college
It is the thing that appears on my related artists on Spotify
Neil is fantastic though, if this is great minds thinking alike I'm honored

I think he understands a generation so crystal clearly though in a way I'm still never going to. They'll look at him like Andy Warhol someday. He's the next great voice in pop art after him, certainly. They want to give that honor to Banksy or some other pretentious counterculture figure but I think Neil looks up to kitsch rather than down to it. That makes all the difference, like comparing Dan Harmon to Seth McFarlane. Parody should honor its subject, not condemn it

7/20/2024with respect to this album —
about 12 years, 1 month later Michael Guy Bowman ✑ Michael Guy Bowman Talks About His Homestuck Music, adapted to text

(gasp) Busting Makes Me Feel Good! Now that's a piece where I have to say... I beat Neil Cicierega to the punch on that! I'm just saying! He did that Bustin' thing years later. I beat him to the punch. I'm not - no, I'm not sore about that, you know. Parallel thinking. Everybody wanted to make fun of Ghostbusters. It's a weird line. I mean, "busting makes me feel good"... you know, there's entendre built in there, you know.