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All My Friends and Charlotte

by Loa & Koan

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With 'All My Friends and Charlotte', the alternative pop trio Loa & Koan bid summer a warm welcome with an equally solemn and outgoing anthem about why you shouldn't proclaim yourself an artist.


Lead singer Loa explains':

»This is one of a few songs I wrote about a group of self-declared artists I hung out with in my teenage years. They aimed for the stars and ended up in the gutter. It is a love declaration to every hopelessly pretentious Morrissey believer who ever set out on a Friday night to win over life, only to find themselves defeated by the merciless clarity of dawn. Originally intended to be performed as a Dylanesque acoustic guitar song, it ended up being arranged for a drum machine, an analogue synthesizer and some MØ- inspired shouting.«


lyrics

If there is a judge in heaven
I hope he is kind to me and my friends
for while we claimed to know what the hell we were doing
oh I don’t think we had a clue
when in the morning hour we reached for our computers
like Charlotte, I reached for you

all my friends were at the party
all my friends were poets and artists
each of the friends had got something smarter
to say than all of my other friends about
his or hers, and this and what but
Charlotte, you’re not like that

all my friends were at the party
talking about global warming
but at eleven clock there’s nothing to do about it
so Josephine says let’s just get this party started
and later as we’re walking through the park
I caught a glimpse of something dark

behind Josephine's shoulder
and I thought oh my god, oh my god, how could we not have known it? and my voice broke from panic when I told them
but all my friends they were just reaching for their telephones
and soon I’d also composed my own 2 ’o clock poem:
Charlotte, I’m coming home

and Charlotte the nights that I came to your house
although I knew I shouldn’t
because I knew you wouldn’t
let me inside
those were cold nights
you were a sharp knife
I was all talk

and all my friends were gone or drunk

credits

released June 25, 2021
Lyrics & Music by Loa Esaias

Arrangement by Maria Jagd



Loa & Koan is:

Sebastian Vinther Olsen - guitar

Maria Jagd - violin

Loa Esaias - vocals, keys, programming


Produced by Loa Esaias & Sebastian Vinther Olsen 

Mixed by Sebastian Vinther Olsen

Mastered by Brian Mørk Hansen


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