Each day, visitors come — producers, label executives, fans with hungry eyes — and each one pulls a lever. The lever activates a memory. A song spills out. Allie doesn’t choose. They do.
Third lever: “Lifted” — a trap-pop fever dream about wanting to float above the wreckage. But every time she lifts, the ceiling lowers. The visitor laughs. They don’t understand that for Allie, euphoria is just another cage.
Second lever: “Vintage” — a shimmering, bitter ode to being replaced by something shinier, younger, less broken. The visitor is a former lover who now dates a hologram. Allie sings through clenched teeth, but her smile is perfect. Porcelain doesn’t crack until it does. allie x collxtion ii
The porcelain cracks. Not from sadness — from refusal. Allie steps off the pedestal. The wires in her hair snap. She walks toward the exit, and as she does, the museum walls crumble. The visitors applaud, mistaking her escape for a performance. But she keeps walking.
The first lever: “Paper Love” — a jagged, synth-pop confession about a romance folded into origami shapes, then set on fire. A visitor pulls. Allie’s mouth opens, and out comes the chorus: “Cut me open, I’m not a paper love.” She bleeds ink, not blood. Black ink. The kind that stains vinyl grooves. Each day, visitors come — producers, label executives,
She’s been here before. In CollXtion I , she was the collector, gathering artifacts of her own decay: a locket of lost love, a lipstick stain from a fight, a voicemail that ends in a dial tone. But now, in CollXtion II , the roles have reversed. The museum owns her.
The last lever is unmarked. It’s red. Rusted. Allie tries to speak, but her voice box glitches. The visitor — a young woman with tears already on her cheeks — pulls it anyway. Allie doesn’t choose
A sign above the door reads: