Singer-songwriter Tiana Tara journeys out and in of pangs of loneliness to really feel gratitude within the music video for her newest track “Glad You Got here Alongside.”
The observe, made with guitarist and songwriter Debanjan Biswas beginning throughout the pandemic-enforced lockdown in 2021, was pushed previous the end line a lot later once they started working with producer Hardik Pandya.
Whereas the audio was launched round Valentine’s Day, Tara says it may be interpreted as conveying extra than simply romantic love. “For me it’s taken on so many extra meanings about being an expression of gratitude for these individuals in our lives who make us really feel at dwelling and fewer alone. It’s additionally about how we present up for ourselves the extra we develop and alter and start to understand the nice round us,” the artist says.
That’s precisely the type of transformation that Tara undergoes within the video directed by filmmaker Ayush Saxena with manufacturing home THNDRtv. Tara says, “The intention was to take the viewer by way of an inside monologue of our protagonist as she seems away (actually) from every part that she needs to be grateful for and as an alternative spirals in negativity and dwells in her disconnectedness. Till she takes discover of how the individuals round her present up for her and the way she is surrounded by love.” By the tip of it, the track and video exhibits us a protagonist who feels seen.The motive, based on the artist, was to make the viewers “really feel the heaviness” proper as much as when the video sees Tara floating, buoyed by the lightness of her realizations. “Our DOP, Leslie D’Souza, left empty areas within the body to showcase the vacancy in me. Because the story proceeds and I begin gaining confidence, the body begins to refill,” Tara says.
The video additionally options fellow indie artist Perp as one among Tara’s associates, who comforts her. Rising shut ever since they enrolled at music college in 2015, Tara counts Perp as one among her finest associates who has additionally been a previous flatmate and collaborator on the one “Weatherman” launched in 2023. “She’s hilarious and it was a lot enjoyable having her on the shoot. All of the scenes on the eating desk the place I’m laughing hysterically was all actual due to the loud, craziness that ensues every time we’re collectively,” Tara says.
Along with prepping the discharge of “Glad You Got here Alongside,” Tara has frolicked upskilling when it comes to manufacturing, songwriting and guitar enjoying. She provides, “I really feel like its taken me some time however I lastly really feel like I’ve some path and momentum about my sound and the themes I wish to discover in my music. I’ve been engaged on some music for an EP that I’m enthusiastic about and am hoping to launch this 12 months together with additional growing my stay set.”
Watch Tiana Tara’s ‘Glad You Got here Alongside’ video beneath.
