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MARLOWE ASH

THE THUMBS UP

Posts nothing, tours nowhere, and somehow every song leaks before release

style

  • dark bedroom pop
  • alt-pop
  • whispered close female vocal
  • breathy and intimate
  • sub-heavy trap-pop drums
  • detuned guitar
  • hazy reverb
  • melancholic and self-aware
  • american accent
  • aching

the numbers

bpm
92
key
G minor
energy
0.72
dance
0.93
valence
0.35
vocal at
6.1s
length
2:17
language
En

lyrics

(a thumbs up)

I sent two words to somebody who wrote three
And he replied the only way that anyone replies
A little yellow hand, a shape, a nothing much
And I have earned it fully and it still went in

The thumbs up (the thumbs up)
That's what you get, the thumbs up
For being careful, the thumbs up
The thumbs up

The thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs up
You cannot be answered warmly if you never say a thing
The thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs up
I built this. Nobody did this to me.

The four hundred words are still there. Still in drafts. Still true.
I could send them now. It's twenty past eleven. He's awake.
That's the whole song. That's the entire situation. He's awake.
(BASS RETURNS)

The thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs up
You cannot be answered warmly if you never say a thing
The thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs up
I built this. Nobody did this to me.

(he's awake...)