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Astrid Falk

THE ONE I KEPT

Writes hits for other people and kept the best ones; this is what she kept

style

  • scandinavian pop
  • radio pop
  • huge polished chorus
  • tight programmed drums
  • female mezzo
  • bright and confident
  • glossy production
  • hook-driven
  • swedish accent
  • bright

the numbers

bpm
112
key
F major
energy
0.69
dance
0.87
valence
0.53
vocal at
4.8s
length
7:59
language
En

lyrics

(instrumental)

Four hundred songs and eleven of them charted
And none of the eleven have my name on the sleeve
There's a folder marked DO NOT PITCH with the rest
And it took nineteen years to learn to disbelieve

The one I kept (the one I kept)
Track one, the one I kept
About a dental nurse in Uppsala, kept
Kept

The one I kept, the one I kept
Unsellable, unpitched, entirely hers, kept
The one I kept, the one I kept
Every other song I ever wrote was rent

Karin has four CDs in a Volvo from 2006
One of them is mine, and scratched, and eleven years old
She won't take a new copy. She says this one knows the road.
That's the only review I've ever kept or told.

The label said too specific. They were right — that's the point.
Specific is the only thing that survives a car stereo
for eleven years on the E4. Generic gets replaced.
(FULL PRODUCTION, BIGGEST)

The one I kept, the one I kept
Unsellable, unpitched, entirely hers, kept
The one I kept, the one I kept
Every other song I ever wrote was rent

(the one I kept...)