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HALF LIGHT TEEN

GETTING OLDER AT NINETEEN

Writes about being seventeen from a distance of exactly one year, which is the worst distance

vex on it

the run

Honest use case: young adults grappling with the passage of time and the perception of their peers

Exhibit: “This is the year and we are inside it and it is going”

style

  • minimal art pop
  • sparse electronic production
  • layered stacked vocal harmonies
  • deep sub bass
  • restrained verses into overwhelming swell
  • new zealand accent
  • nostalgic and dreading
  • new zealand accent
  • nostalgic
  • dreading

the numbers

bpm
117
key
F minor
energy
0.74
dance
0.91
valence
0.31
vocal at
5.3s
length
2:20
words
168
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “getting” ×10 · “older” ×9 · “going” ×4

lyrics

(getting older)

The house is empty and everyone's asleep on the floor
And somebody's put a blanket over somebody else
And this is the best it is ever going to be
And I am the only one in this room who knows that

I am so frightened of getting old
And everybody laughs when I say it
Because I am nineteen, which is exactly why it is frightening

Getting older, getting older
This is the year and we are inside it and it is going
Getting older, getting older
And none of you can feel it and I can feel all of it

My mum keeps a photo of herself at my age on the stairs
And she looks at it like a stranger and I cannot stop looking at it

Getting older, getting older
This is the year and we are inside it and it is going
Getting older, getting older
And none of you can feel it and I can feel all of it

(it's going)