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Astrid Falk

Four Hundred Songs

Writes hits for other people and kept the best ones; this is what she kept

style

  • scandinavian pop
  • radio pop
  • huge polished chorus
  • tight programmed drums
  • female mezzo
  • bright and confident
  • glossy production
  • hook-driven
  • swedish accent
  • extended epic arrangement

the numbers

bpm
129
key
A# major
energy
0.69
dance
0.93
valence
0.55
vocal at
5.6s
length
2:51
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Four hundred songs and I can tell you where every one went
Eleven were hits, sixty were album tracks, the rest are gone
Not lost, gone — bought, filed, never used, owned by someone
(owned by someone)
There are songs of mine that no living person has heard

That is not sad (not sad)
That is a job, and I chose it, and it built a house

Four hundred songs
(four hundred)
And eleven of them I would actually put my name on
Four hundred songs
The other three eighty-nine paid for the eleven

People treat "commercial" like an insult, usually people
Who have never had to make rent from a chorus in February
I have made rent from a chorus in February for nineteen years
(nineteen years)
That is a craft. I would like it called a craft, once, by someone.

This one's number four hundred and one.
Nobody bought it. Nobody is going to.
Best thing I've done since 2011.
(FULL PRODUCTION, BIGGEST)

Four hundred songs
(four hundred)
And eleven of them I would actually put my name on
Four hundred songs
The other three eighty-nine paid for the eleven

(four hundred and one...)