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Priya Nair

THEN DON'T

Writes anti-love songs in a film industry that only commissions love songs

style

  • tamil indie pop
  • carnatic influence
  • mridangam
  • electric guitar
  • female soprano
  • agile and ornamented
  • modern production
  • rhythmic complexity
  • indian accent
  • dry

the numbers

bpm
99
key
F major
energy
0.70
dance
0.95
valence
0.42
vocal at
10.8s
length
2:21
language
Ta

lyrics

(then don't)

She has watched me turn down eleven years of work
Films with money in them, films with proper budgets
And she has never once told me to be sensible
Which for a Chennai mother is a kind of miracle

Then don't (then don't)
That's what she said, then don't
Two words, then don't
Then don't

Then don't, then don't, then don't, then don't
I explained the whole thing about pursuit and consent
Then don't, then don't, then don't, then don't
And she listened and she said then don't and made the tea

She was married at nineteen to a man chosen for her.
It worked out. She says it worked out and I believe her.
And she has never once suggested that I do the same.
(BAND RETURNS)

Then don't, then don't, then don't, then don't
I explained the whole thing about pursuit and consent
Then don't, then don't, then don't, then don't
And she listened and she said then don't and made the tea

(then don't...)