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The Black Bride – RUDIQUE feat. tiar: about the song

The Black Bride – RUDIQUE feat. tiar

In this blog post I will tell you about a song of two emerging Russian creators and musicians, The Black Bride – RUDIQUE feat. tiar. You’ll get to learn more about how it was created and what made it happen. The meaning and thoughts behind the song The Black Bride – RUDIQUE feat. tiar

The table of content:

  • The story

  • The lyrics

  • The emotions

 

THE STORY


Who are the musicians and how they created the song

The Black Bride - RUDIQUE feat. tiar
The Black Bride – RUDIQUE feat. tiar

On November 18th, 2022, a song called “The Black Bride” was released to the public.
It was created by two young Russian musicians RUDIQUE and tiar. RUDIQUE is a 23-year-old musician currently based in Berlin, he creates atmospheric electronic music, he creates the instrumental of the song. tiar is a 23-year-old singer and a songwriter currently based in Toronto, she makes rock and alternative music, she wrote lyrics and the vocal melody for the song.

Creators met in Moscow in 2020, they both were always passionate about music and songwriting, but by the time they decided to create a song together they already lived in different countries. RUDIQUE left Russia after the war started and tiar stayed for one more year to finish her studies in Moscow. These factors made creation of the song long and hard. Therefore, creators were collaborating through social media, sending each other short records of their ideas just to find that exact emotion that they wanted to put into the song, figuring out the way how it could create something that they both loved through distance and time.

The song is about a sad love story tiar went through, in which she ended up feeling left alone and betrayed. In the process of creating The Black Bride she was mad, angry, and furious about the situation but at the same time the anger made her feel empowered, she felt like she could take the power into her own hands.

THE LYRICS

“Turned my demons to my friends
I’ll do the same with yours
They look in my eyes they give me their hands
I’ll help them kill their host

Brought myself up from hell
And you will take my place
You won’t get out of my web
Don’t try to save your face

Watch me bring out a rusty knife
Pray to the gods and make me cry
My tears will burn down your shitty life
That’s why they call me “The Black Bride”

Watch me bring out a rusty knife
Pray to the gods and make me cry
My tears will burn down your ****** life
That’s why they call me “The Black Bride”

You’re pouring fuel down your throat
I think I’ll light the match
I don’t excite you anymore
But I will be your crash

Your little nosey gossip girl
Became a bird of prey
Your new baby beautiful
Is the price you’re gonna pay

Watch me bring out a rusty knife
Pray to the gods and make me cry
My tears will burn down your ****** life
That’s why they call me “The Black Bride”

 

The meaning and thoughts behind the song The Black Bride – RUDIQUE feat. tiar

 

The song is about a feeling of craving revenge for someone who hurt you, about a moment when love turns to hate. In the lines “Turned my demons to my friends, I’ll do the same with yours” the author of The Black Bride is talking about how she was struggling with mental health, and she refers to that as “her demons”. At the time when the situation that the song is about occurred, she learned how to control her emotions and her inner demons. So, then she wanted to turn the demons of a person that she is singing about against them.
In the next lines “You won’t get out of my way web, don’t try to save your face” she is saying that not only she wanted to turn their demons against them but also the people around, to affect the reputation of the person. And in the chorus the author is talking about her emotions which made her feel sad and miserable; and how now she wants to turn these feeling into the weapon against the one who created them.

 

THE EMOTIONS


What went through creators’ heads while writing the song

The song itself is very dark, mysterious, and quite revengeful. The instrumental of the song is electronic music that is filled with dark feelings. However, it is not sad, it is a feeling of finally breaking free, how the anger gives you strength to say goodbye to the thing that you tried to fix for so long and finally destroy it to the ground. This anger is not about screaming, hitting the walls and breaking stuff, it is about standing calmly in the shadows with a smile on your face and watching the world burn.

 

Creator’s words

 

As a creator says, “I created this song because I felt power and I wanted to share it with others. Because I know that I’m not the only one who goes through feeling powerless, hopeless, and week. Therefore, I wanted to show people that even if someone wronged you and you are a victim in the situation, it doesn’t mean you need to feel like a victim. You can take all this pain and turn it into strength and power.”

There is another emotional aspect to the song. tiar also sees the song as a piece about female empowerment. This is what she says about it herself:

“I love women’s rage, it’s beautiful. Women are mostly shown in social media is being quiet, or cute, or funny, or sad, or boring but never mad; and it’s not the truth. We must hide our anger because we’re not supposed to be angry. But we are. We want to show it and we want others to see it. We don’t want to be the ones who are scared anymore, we want to be the ones who scare others.”
The meaning and thoughts behind the song The Black Bride – RUDIQUE feat. tiar

The song is available on all platforms, go listen to it on Spotify, check put the link:
https://open.spotify.com/track/5sNhbR03EZEqsHKdeeGONE?si=08e5d1440a2f49bf 

Arina Tishaeva

Speeding up with TikTok: the Sped up song versions

 I want to dedicate this note to a new trend in the musical field: the Sped up song version, which basically consists of increasing the speed of a song to 150%. This practice was generated on TikTok thanks to contributions from anonymous users. They would tune the song to the new style and make it freely available for others to upload with their own videos or choreographies. Regardless of whether Sped up song versions are considered a valuable artistic product or not, the truth is that originally, this was a community and anti-capitalist movement. This is because TikTok users who made their own versions posted them on the networks for free circulation and did not obtain financial benefit from it. To this, we should add a huge number of tutorials with tricks to make your own accelerated version that can be seen on various platforms like YouTube.

 

The side effects of Sped up song

The trend of Sped up song versions has contributed not only to generating new hits but, paradoxically, has helped turn relatively recent pop songs into unexpected super hits, even if they initially weren’t.  This is the case, for example, of Sure Thing, by the American R’n’B singer Miguel (original from 2010), Die For You, by The Weeknd (from 2016), Cool For The Summer, by Demi Lovato (2015), Sway, by Michael Bublé (2003) or Say it Right, by Nelly Furtado (2006).

In all these cases, the exponential increase in clicks has been so overwhelming that the artists themselves have succumbed to the trend and started to publish these versions officially. TikTok content with the #spedup hashtag already has 10 billion views, and, according to data published by the US magazine Billboard, 80 of the 100 most listened-to songs on that social network have an altered tempo. The phenomenon has already spread in such a way that Spotify has even created an official playlist of Sped up song versions, which exceeds a million likes and includes songs by superstars such as Madonna and Rihanna.

 

A generation Z movement

The rise of this practice confirms that TikTok users, mostly composed of generation Z individuals, are no longer satisfied with being mere passive spectators. “Fans come to our platform not so much to enjoy the music, but to express themselves creatively and connect with each other through it, and with their favorite artists. Fans here have the chance to participate in the musical creation process”, says Soraya Castellanos, head of TikTok Content, Community, and Associations in Spain and Portugal. “Within our community of users, a movement is generated, an impressive wave of inspiration, which invites collaboration and enrichment of the content. People riff on ideas, take full advantage of our effects, and use sounds that someone has created on the other side of the world,” she adds.

Although speeding up a song by itself doesn’t have much merit, there is no creative decision beyond that tempo change, it is possible to build on that idea to introduce other new elements. Surely faster songs will also be made and heard due to this trend started by the Sped up song versions. In this sense, TikTok users are the true generators of a trend and the music market adjusts to it.