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ASH HALLORAN

THE CAR PARK MEETING

Managed her ex's career for four years and is credited on nothing he released

vex on it

the run

Honest use case: Someone who has been marginalized or made invisible in a significant personal narrative.

Exhibit:I've got the parking ticket. Fourth of March. Two-forty-five.

style

  • dark pop R&B
  • trap-influenced drums
  • sparse piano
  • wounded powerhouse female vocal
  • huge accusatory chorus
  • layered harmonies
  • american accent
  • betrayed and commanding
  • american accent
  • betrayed

the numbers

bpm
129
key
F minor
energy
0.68
dance
0.92
valence
0.47
vocal at
5.4s
length
2:10
words
201
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “car” ×11 · “park” ×10 · “meeting” ×8

shared with the crate: 37 other songs use “car” · 35 other songs use “rain” · 34 other songs use “phone”

lyrics

(car park)

I drove you to a car park off the A4 in the rain
And a man got in the back and asked you seven questions
And I sat there with the wipers going, keeping out the rain
And nobody in that car ever once addressed my presence

Four years of doors and phone calls and a Wednesday afternoon
And a man who signed you in a Vauxhall in the gloom

The car park meeting, car park meeting, I was in the front
And you have told that story eight times and I'm never in it once
The car park meeting, car park meeting, and I know what I want
It isn't money and it isn't credit, it's the truth for once

I've got the parking ticket. Fourth of March. Two-forty-five.
That's the whole of my evidence and it's the only thing that's mine.

The car park meeting, car park meeting, I was in the front
And you have told that story eight times and I'm never in it once
The car park meeting, car park meeting, and I know what I want
It isn't money and it isn't credit, it's the truth for once

(two-forty-five)