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[adrienmundi]

I've had Six Underground in my head off and on for days now, but it always slips away when I'm near somewhere I could play it. Bass lines, turns of phrase, Kelly Ali's voice, all have been creeping around the edge of my awareness. Usually, I'd think this meant something, but it doesn't have that feeling of a(n increasingly frustrated) part of myself speaking in song to another part.

Anyway, tonight, alone at home, listening to the rain, in that rare moment I've got it on commercial radio, I caught a version I'd never heard before, with an extended intro, and it just seemed right. I still don't know what it means, but I thought I'd share.

It's really an amazing track, probably my favorite post-Portishead 90s female vocal trip hop.

Comments

[aesthetic.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooooh such a great song...

[adrienmundi]

It's one of the rare trip hop songs where music and lyrics work well together.

[fairyhead.livejournal.com]

Strangely, that song has been going through my head a lot lately.

[adrienmundi]

I'm probably wrong, but I suspect I know the lyrics you stick on:

"Don't think 'cause I understand, I care..."

"too strung up to sleep..."

[fairyhead.livejournal.com]

Don't think 'cause I understand, I care
Don't think 'cause I'm talking, we're friends

Those have always been the most resonant lyrics of that song for me. Very powerful.