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Tavita Reyes

Six Voices

Sings with her cousins on every track

style

  • pacific soul
  • island reggae
  • warm bass
  • ukulele
  • layered family harmonies
  • female alto
  • rich and grounded
  • sunlit production
  • new zealand accent
  • pacific inflection

the numbers

bpm
83
key
F major
energy
0.69
dance
0.95
valence
0.47
vocal at
9.1s
length
2:19
language
En

lyrics

(mmm)

Label asked me to record it solo, "for the streaming"
Said the harmonies confuse the algorithm, apparently
I said the harmonies ARE the song, and they said yes but
(yes but, yes but)
There is always a yes but, and it is always about a machine

My cousins have sung on every track (every track)
Since I was eleven. They are not session singers. They are the sound.

Six voices
(six voices)
Take five away and you do not have a smaller song
Six voices
You have a different song by a different person

So I sent them the solo version as a joke
They laughed for about four minutes on the group call
Then Auntie said "it sounds lonely" and everyone stopped
(everyone stopped)
That was the review. That was the whole negotiation over.

(unaccompanied family harmonies)
Aiga... aiga...
(bass slides back in)

Six voices
(six voices)
Take five away and you do not have a smaller song
Six voices
You have a different song by a different person

(six voices...)