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Mrs Wanjiku

Ex-gospel choir lead who found four-to-the-floor

style

  • afro house
  • deep house
  • tribal percussion
  • log drum
  • soaring female vocal
  • powerful belt
  • Swahili chants
  • euphoric
  • festival-ready
  • east african accent

the numbers

bpm
123
key
F minor
energy
0.71
dance
0.95
valence
0.55
vocal at
2.8s
length
2:39
language
En

lyrics

(Kesho!)

She corrected my timing in front of everybody in June
Seventeen women watching and she did not lower her voice
"You are rushing. You have always rushed. Count."
(count, count)
Forty years old, three albums, and I counted like a child

And I was rushing (was rushing)
Every session for two years, and nobody in London said a word

Mrs Wanjiku
(Wanjiku!)
The only person alive who still tells me the truth
Mrs Wanjiku
A wooden spoon and forty years of not being impressed

Producers say "that's amazing" to everything now, everything
It is the industry's way of saying "I want to go home"
She has never said amazing. Not once. To anyone.
(to anyone)
And when she says "yes, that" you could build a house on it

(a cappella, seventeen voices)
Count... count...
(CLAPS, DROP)

Mrs Wanjiku
(Wanjiku!)
The only person alive who still tells me the truth
Mrs Wanjiku
A wooden spoon and forty years of not being impressed

(Kesho...)