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Ivy Solano

Passport Name

Called Ivy at school and something else at home, and both are on the passport

style

  • latin pop
  • reggaeton pop crossover
  • bright guitar
  • dembow groove
  • female vocal
  • playful and confident
  • huge radio chorus
  • bilingual hooks
  • summer production
  • american accent

the numbers

bpm
172
key
A# major
energy
0.71
dance
0.91
valence
0.53
vocal at
7.6s
length
7:59
language
En

lyrics

(eh, eh)

The passport says the long one, the one nobody attempts
Border guards look at it and then look at me
And I watch them decide how much effort I'm worth
(I'm worth, I'm worth)
Some of them try. I remember every single one who tries.

It's four syllables (cuatro silabas)
It is not a difficult name, it's an unfamiliar one

Passport name, passport name
The one they mispronounce is the one that's real
Passport name, passport name
Say it wrong but say it, that's all I want

Starbucks gets "Ivy", the doctor gets the long one
Teachers got whatever they invented in September
By October I stopped correcting them, which I regret
(which I regret)
Nineteen years old is when I started correcting people again

Mi abuela never called me Ivy. Not once. Not ever.
She'd say the whole thing, all four syllables, every time,
like it cost her nothing. Because it didn't.

Passport name, passport name
The one they mispronounce is the one that's real
Passport name, passport name
Say it wrong but say it, that's all I want

(passport name...)