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Priya Nair

ORU KAADHAL PAADAL ILLAI

Writes anti-love songs in a film industry that only commissions love songs

style

  • tamil indie pop
  • carnatic influence
  • mridangam
  • electric guitar
  • female soprano
  • agile and ornamented
  • modern production
  • rhythmic complexity
  • indian accent
  • dry

the numbers

bpm
103
key
C# major
energy
0.71
dance
0.96
valence
0.41
vocal at
8.8s
length
2:42
language
Ta

lyrics

(illai)

They asked me for a love song on a Monday morning
For a film about a man who follows a woman home
I said I do not write those and they laughed politely
And commissioned somebody who does, by Wednesday lunch

Oru kaadhal paadal illai (illai)
Not one love song, illai
Eleven years, illai
Illai

Illai, illai, illai, illai
Oru kaadhal paadal illai, not a single one
Illai, illai, illai, illai
An entire industry runs on the thing I will not write

My mother asked me why I make it hard for myself.
I said the songs are not about love, they are about pursuit,
and I am not putting a tune to that. She said: "then don't."
(BAND RETURNS)

Illai, illai, illai, illai
Oru kaadhal paadal illai, not a single one
Illai, illai, illai, illai
An entire industry runs on the thing I will not write

(illai...)