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KAJSA WILD

SHOES BY THE DOOR

Writes about sex, drugs and grief with the same flat honesty and refuses to make any of it prettier

vex on it

the run

Honest use case: People who are tired of emotional labor in casual encounters.

Exhibit:You're gonna come back Thursday. We both know you're gonna come back Thursday.

style

  • scandinavian pop sung in English
  • blunt explicit lyrics
  • hedonistic melancholy
  • big synth chorus with a cold edge
  • breathy-then-belted female vocal
  • party-sad production
  • slight swedish accent on English
  • honest and unguarded
  • swedish accent
  • horny

the numbers

bpm
112
key
B minor
energy
0.71
dance
0.94
valence
0.47
vocal at
6.6s
length
2:00
words
215
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “don't” ×8 · “back” ×5 · “need” ×5

shared with the crate: 37 other songs use “car” · 76 other songs use “door”

lyrics

(shoes by the door)

I woke up on your carpet with my dress still on my back
Your shoes were by the door and mine were somewhere in the hall
I don't remember getting here, I don't remember much at all
And I'm not gonna pretend to you that I want it coming back

I like it loud, I like it rough, I like it late
And I've stopped calling that a thing I need to fix

Leave your shoes beside the door and leave your questions in the car
I don't need to know your childhood, I don't need to know your name
I've been polite for two whole years and look at where we are
Come upstairs or go home, but don't ask me to explain

You text me "was that too much" at about a quarter past nine
It wasn't. It was Tuesday. Come back Thursday, that's fine.

Leave your shoes beside the door and leave your questions in the car
I don't need to know your childhood, I don't need to know your name
I've been polite for two whole years and look at where we are
Come upstairs or go home, but don't ask me to explain

You're gonna come back Thursday.
We both know you're gonna come back Thursday.
SHOES BY THE DOOR — KAJSA WILD · FERAL