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PAPER TIGERS

TELEVISION WEATHER

A collective that has never shown its faces and communicates only through the records

vex on it

the run

Honest use case: people who appreciate atmospheric, unchanging melancholy and specific trip-hop aesthetics

Exhibit:The forecast man, he almost knows

style

  • trip-hop
  • alternative hip-hop
  • dubby bassline
  • lo-fi drum loop
  • melodica and detuned keys
  • laconic half-sung male vocal
  • cartoon-band groove
  • british accent
  • hypnotic and cool
  • british accent

the numbers

bpm
92
key
F minor
energy
0.73
dance
0.91
valence
0.31
vocal at
0.7s
length
3:39
words
198
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “only” ×12 · “weather's” ×11 · “has” ×4

shared with the crate: 90 other songs use “light”

lyrics

(a TV hums in another room)
(mmm...)

The curtains stay exactly closed
An ashtray full of afternoons
The forecast man, he almost knows
It's raining in my living room
(slow, slow)

You left in what they called a heatwave
I've been cold since
(cold since, cold since)

The weather's only on TV
The weather's only on TV
No sky has touched my skin for weeks
The weather's only on TV
The weather's only on TV
(channel four, channel four)

Your mug still holds a tide of tea
A ring of you I will not wash
The remote control has learned my knee
The screen light is my only watch
(flicker, flicker)

The weather's only on TV (on TV, TV)
The weather's only on TV
No sky has touched my skin for weeks
The weather's only on TV
The weather's only on TV

Somewhere it is really raining
On people really getting wet
(lucky them)
I'm indoors with reruns, training
My heart to forget
(forget, forget, forget)

The weather's only on TV
The weather's only on TV
No sky has touched my skin for weeks
The weather's only on TV

(tomorrow: more of the same)
(the set clicks off)