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NOVA REIGN

PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

A former competitive swimmer who writes about discipline disguised as pleasure

style

  • dance pop
  • four-on-the-floor
  • disco-inflected bassline
  • polished female vocal
  • huge euphoric chorus
  • nu-disco strings
  • british accent
  • glossy and joyful
  • british accent
  • euphoric

the numbers

bpm
129
key
F minor
energy
0.72
dance
0.95
valence
0.67
vocal at
11.6s
length
3:14
language
En

lyrics

(physical evidence)

I swam four hours a day for eleven years of my life
Same pool, same lane, same black line on the bottom
And people say I must have hated it and I loved it
I loved knowing exactly what my body was for

And now I do this instead
Same discipline, different room
Everybody thinks it is abandon and it is arithmetic

Physical evidence, physical evidence
The proof is in the doing and the doing is the point
Physical evidence, physical evidence
I am not losing control, I have never once lost control

There is a photograph of me at fifteen on a starting block
Same face I make at the drop. Exactly the same face.

Physical evidence, physical evidence
The proof is in the doing and the doing is the point
Physical evidence, physical evidence
I am not losing control, I have never once lost control

(the point)