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Priya Nair

PURSUIT IS NOT LOVE

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
99
key
F minor
energy
0.71
dance
0.93
valence
0.48
vocal at
1.5s
length
2:30
language
Ta

lyrics

(not love)

He waits outside her college and the strings come in
He follows her for ninety minutes and we call it romance
And the whole country sings it at weddings afterwards
And nobody in the room has ever once objected

Pursuit is not love (not love)
It never was, not love
Say it plainly, not love
Not love

Not love, not love, not love, not love
I will not put a melody on a man who will not stop
Not love, not love, not love, not love
Because a good tune makes it beautiful and it is not

A director told me I was taking it too seriously.
He said it is only a film. He has two daughters.
I asked him about that. He changed the subject. Twice.
(BAND RETURNS)

Not love, not love, not love, not love
I will not put a melody on a man who will not stop
Not love, not love, not love, not love
Because a good tune makes it beautiful and it is not

(not love...)
PURSUIT IS NOT LOVE — Priya Nair · FERAL