Regardless of the upbeat sound delivered to us by producer Jai Wolf and singer/songwriter BANKS, the lyrics for “Don’t Look Down” convey a extra susceptible temper to the general tune.

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Eight years for the reason that launch of her first studio album Goddess, BANKS has continued to go away an impression on the music trade. With hundreds of thousands of world streams, quite a few high-charting songs and albums, and releases like “Higher” getting used for the hit tv present Women, the BANKS’ influence has absolutely been felt.

In her fourth studio album Serpentina (AWAL Information), BANKS stayed true to her creative model, whereas additionally branching out and creating sounds that had been new to followers and artist alike. But she nonetheless managed to execute the vulnerability she is understood for in songs like “Burn” and “Birds by the Sea,” the place she expresses the acquainted, but harsh feelings that comes with dropping somebody you as soon as cherished.

On “F**okay Love,” an up-tempo hip-hop-influenced tune, BANKS admits to not figuring out a lot about love and never desirous to cope with any of the bullshit that comes with relationship. With lyrics like, “I don’t find out about love, I don’t give a shit about it,” that daring message turns into much more obvious.

Subsequent on the observe listing is “Deadend,” the place we hear BANKS admit to not desirous to be damage once more in a relationship and coping with one other “useless finish.” In “Spirit,” some of the distinctive tracks on the album, BANKS collaborates with North Carolinian R&B singer and songwriter Samoht. Introduced on by the acquainted environment of a keyboard ever current in a Black church, the 2 sing about not giving up and having religion amongst the wrestle:

It’s simpler to only really feel defeated
Ain’t nothing actual to lose
when you by no means get your hopes up
I do know when you strive, you’ll be able to obtain it
F**okay anybody who tells you you’ll be able to’t do it,
you don’t want it
For those who maintain digging deep, you’ll see it
Child, once I really feel like, really feel like giving up

One thing in my spirit tells me
I ain’t had sufficient
And I do know it don’t really feel straightforward
’trigger life can really feel down and up
However there’s one thing ’bout the wrestle
that makes me wanna get again up

With lyrics like these, the tune is certainly extra of a 180 diploma flip from the remainder of the album, and in one of the best ways but. Undoubtedly take a look at the remainder of BANKS’ Serpentina to listen to for your self.

On to her latest feat, “Don’t Look Down,” which is delivered to us by a collaboration with Bangladeshi-American digital producer Jai Wolf.

Wolf’s work is a little more upbeat than BANKS’ songs on Serpentina, and she or he lends her vocals to make an ideal collaboration and a surefire summer season hit. Whereas “Don’t Look Down” differs fairly a bit from her personal newest album, its message is once more coping with that very same vulnerability and empowerment – and in the identical breath.

The observe opens with a dramatic begin, then rapidly transforms right into a synth-pop tune paying homage to “Spirit,” with BANKS’ uplifting and critical vocals and lyrics – after all,  accompanied by Wolf’s enjoyable, upbeat manufacturing:

Typically I overthink
Compulsively get in my head
Look ahead to the reality to sink in, to really feel my very own pores and skin
Whiplash in polaroids
Left to the flip of a coin
Dissonance turnin’ your voice into white noise

So what if I say out loud
What I’m afraid of?
From my coronary heart to my mouth
Climbin’ the best way up
I do know I’m terrified
After I get too excessive

But when I don’t look down
I received’t be too dizzy to remain
And I received’t go slippin’ away
I’ll maintain my head within the clouds
If I don’t look down
Possibly I’ll land on my ft
Discover consolation in quiet and peace
I’ll be within the right here, I’ll be within the now
If I don’t look down

BANKS describes the exhaustion that comes with overthinking, and the way it looks like as soon as the reality hits, it’ll convey one again middle.

However what if as a substitute of overthinking and getting in her head, she admits her fears – giving energy to herself within the midst of it? And what if, by not getting too into her head, she will nonetheless dream and never really feel that whiplash of actuality – and as a substitute, simply reside in that second of freedom?

I’m on a carousel
Spinnin’ so quick, I need assistance
In all the muted pastels, losin’ myself

Right here she describes that feeling of spinning uncontrolled and loosely hanging on to what she has left, for the ideas are attending to her and bringing her down.

So what if I say out loud
What I’m afraid of?
From my coronary heart to my mouth
Climbin’ the best way up
I do know I’m terrified
Whеn I get too excessive

But when I don’t look down
I received’t be too dizzy to remain
And I received’t go slippin’ away
I’ll maintain my head in thе clouds
If I don’t look down
Possibly I’ll land on my ft
Discover consolation in quiet and peace
I’ll be within the right here, I’ll be within the now
If I don’t look down

But regardless of feeling like dropping herself from the ideas in her head, she as soon as once more needs to flee the overthinking, escape actuality, and as a substitute proceed to dream and be at peace. As a result of if one will get too excessive up and doesn’t look down, what’s there to be afraid of?

The lyrics themselves function a reminder that overthinking and self-doubt are inevitable – however what if one may delay such ideas and proceed to dream and really feel peace amidst the intrusion? Jai Wolf and BANKS’ “Don’t Look Down” presents consolation in with the ability to just do that.

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