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Do You Regret It

A Latin pop female empowerment song about a woman who is tired of wasting time on the wrong guy.

Lyrics: 
Ahora ya es muy tarde
tu crees que yo soy alguien 
A quien tu puedas mentir y manipular

Después de lo que vi 
estoy cansada de decir 
Sí
Tiempo de que te vayas 
de aquí de aquí de aquí de aquí 
no quiero nada más, nada más de, de ti de ti de ti de ti
no quiero nada más, nada más de ti

Tu crees que todo es tan fácil 
Decir perdón y ya te salvaste
Pero no sabes 
que yo soy el tiburón 
no te dejo dañarme lo juro mi amor

Después de lo que vi 
estoy cansada de decir 
sí
Tiempo de que te
vayas de aqui de aqui de aqui de aqui
no quiero nada más, nada más de, de ti de ti de ti de ti
no quiero nada más

Tu piensas que yo no puedo vivir sin ti
Al lado de mi
pero quiero que veas
que sigo bailando otra vez
tiempo e’ que te 
vayas
de aquí de aquí de aquí de aquí 
no quiero nada más, nada más de, de ti de ti de ti de ti, no quiero nada más
nada más de, de ti, de ti de ti de ti no quiero nada más, nada más de ti, de ti de ti de ti
no quiero nada más, nada más de ti de ti de ti de ti...

Nada Mas

Our Goodbye

Monique Barry keeps her eye on the hourglass and her talents in music’s time zone with her latest single

Time, as Tennessee Williams wisely told us, is the longest distance between two places—a perspective that singer-songwriter Monique Barry is more than prepared to support—and sing about. Always a musical innovator and a tuneful risk taker, Monique has often been ahead of her time, and shows no sign of falling behind. Ever since starting her musical career, she hasn’t just spent time—she’s also invested it in the evolution of her creative vision, as well as the exploration of her musical scope and diversity.

Monique’s newest single, Time, is the eighth and latest in a series of singles that’s slated to culminate in a completed album entitled HAAK.

A delicately atmospheric exploration of loss and connection, Time begins with a quiet, ghostly flair and a spellbinding background laced with breathy, faraway sighs (of someone who’s been running a great distance, it suggests, toward something…or away from it?) “Hope to see past your distance, it's dark and it's blue” she sings, gently reaching vocally through a caressing multilayered soundscape.

Also going the musical distance on Time are some of Monique’s most trusted and vibrant collaborators: Kevin Lacroix on guitar, Alisdair Jones on bass, Emma Campbell on vocals and Michael Philip Wojewoda on drums, vocals,  mix and co-production.

HAAK

Time

Time Monique Barry

When passion inside you burns your walls out and sets itself free.

RitaKAS

Naked Mystery

Summerstorm

Lovers Beware

Lovers Beware (Prod By. Pacific & IamCharlieAnderson)

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Let It Go

Get Over It (Kevin Shirley Mix)

You & I

Loop mode is out on all platforms: ffm.to/loopmodesingle

Watch the music video: https://youtu.be/6B9djwPwxTk

I made Loop mode 3 years ago in my bedroom in London. I found a cool synth loop on Garageband and used it to lay down all my thoughts. This is a song about overthinking and being stuck in your head. It took me 3 years to release it and I know some of you have been waiting that long for it, thank you.

Mixed by @a-charles-music
Pic by @ josscreative

LYRICS: 
My thoughts are on loop mode
Guess I'll just stop
Cause I'm way too out of focus on my way to the top
To the top (to the top to the top) to the top
It's not meant to be it's not effortless
I'm going with the flow no second-guessing myself
My back on the wall I trust the process
I'm growing like a flower trying to find a place on earth

On earth on earth
On earth on earth

I want to be perfect but I gotta let go
Cause emotions are imperfect that's how I keep you close
I'm here to reconcile the woman and the child
I'm here to lift you up with one foot on the ground
With one foot on the ground
One foot on the ground

I'm just trying to find my place on earth
I'm just trying to find my place on earth
On earth

Loop Mode

It's been 7 years since the first song for the album was written, the first in my life. 3 years since we started recording these songs. It's a long way to go. And complicated. It led me to where I am now. I am convinced that everything happens when it should. Now is the time when I became ready to present the pieces of my soul, made into music, to the whole world. 

5 songs are like 5 fragments from a personal diary: naive and overly romanticizing and dramatizing events. But that's how I am, that's how I feel. In my own world, everything was exactly as described in the songs. 

But these are only fragments. The full diary is an album of 12 songs that make up a complete story, called Worlds Apart, I'm sure it won't take so long to wait this time.

The opening track - Light - embodies a bright beginning in every sense. The first affection, the first song, the first guitar, the first step into a new life. It's still special to me, and in fact, I probably like it most of all these songs in terms of sound. When we started recording it, it turned out to be quite melancholic and unhurried, and as for me, it sounded cool, but I was prompted and also guessing myself, that it would be good to make it kind of more up-tempo, I wanted to find a balance, and I am very pleased with the way we made it.

As part of this EP, Circles is a sharp rewind of events forward. This is no longer "Now I finally see the light", but "You will only make me suffer, whether you want it or not." There was no doubt about how this song should sound: definitely more rock and expressive compared to the others.

New Chapter: "And after all this time and songs, it’s the first one about something real that you and me feel." It’s true that a lot of songs had already been written at the time of writing this one. The first reciprocity. At least for a while. I had thoughts that maybe a lot of repeatings in the song would seem boring to a listener, but I no longer think so about what it turned out, especially thanks to Ruzel's backing vocals, which really enlivened it.

In the process of keeping a diary, one page was torn out. This is You Make Me Feel (Higher), the third song I wrote. At one point, it began to seem not good enough to me, and I excluded it from tracklist of the future album. However, later, while recording this EP, I decided to give it a new life, changing it a little, and the missing link was found, becoming such a bonus track. Someone even liked it the most.

Affection is the track that has already become landmark. The last song on this EP and on the upcoming longplay. At the same time, it was the first one that we began to rehearse, record and play in public. Someone has already had enough of it, but not me, I still consider it one of the best songs I ever wrote. "I made everyone believe in a perfect explanation. Now I don’t know how to feel, cause it seems like it is real, but I have the same affection." Thus, we return to the same place from where we started, but with a new awareness: love, suffering - all for the sake of art.

It was decided to make an acoustic version of the song, different from the version on the future album, as in the case of the previous song - for a change. But not only for that. I really like how this melody is combined with a tambourine. And in general, I'm glad that at least one song became more or less minimalistic, because the rest are too full of sounds, one might say noisy. At least we got what we did, due to the first experience and the tendency of both musicians to complicate everything:) And it's funny that now, with more experience, I’m going to move in the direction of simplification.

Anyway, I'm very happy to finally share the music of my heart with you and hope it will resonate with someone!

Light

Rising Tide

....mkay

sorry for the quality, left my mic at home so recorded through my laptop

Mr Mackey

mr mackey

Slow Boat To China

Available on all platforms: ffm.to/tellmewhydivianne

CREDITS
written by me and Jamie Amos
produced by Jamie Amos
mixed by Jamie Amos
mastered by Brett Shaw

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

Since the tidal waves I've been
Trying to catch my breath
We go through the motions
Drinking all the poison
This time I'm finally free

Wreck me 
You did it so easily

Tell me 
Tell me 
Tell me why
Please
Tell me 
Tell me why

I've been 
Trying 

I kinda want to forget
All the damage you made
You took me for granted
I lost you as a friend

We go through the motions
Drinking all the poison
This time I'm finally free

Wreck me 
You did it so easily

Tell me 
Tell me 
Tell me why
Please
Tell me 
Tell me why

I've been 
Trying 

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh

Divianne - Tell Me Why

written by me
produced by me + Alan Charles Smith
mixed by Alan Charles Smith
mastered by John Webber at Air Studios, London

LYRICS
My dreams turn into nightmares
Every cell of my brain is screaming your name
Do you often think about me

Wherever you are
Wherever you are, you're so far
Wherever you are

Oh I didn't say I love you
Now I wish I did
You were a beautiful sunrise
You faded too quick
And I try not to be mad
You stop showing up with time
All I can say now is goodbye
Is goodbye
Oh oh
Is goodbye
Is goodbye

Alone in my bed
You're on a plane I'll find you again
I'm thinkin' no man ain't like you
And just for you the door stays open
I get carried away
You'll never know and I hate it

Wherever you are, you're so far
Wherever you are

Oh I didn't say I love you
Now I wish I did
You were a beautiful sunrise
You faded too quick
And I try not to be mad
You stop showing up with time
All I can say now is goodbye
Is goodbye
Oh oh
Is goodbye
Is goodbye
Is goodbye

Oh I do baby
I still think about you
Oh I do baby
I still think about you
Oh I do baby
I still think about you

Divianne - I didn’t say I love you

written by me
produced/mixed by Alan Charles Smith

LYRICS
Sometimes I feel like I’m a different person at night
My skin gets thinner and I believe all of my doubts
Burning like a fire I lose most of the time
You can show me the cards but I know I can’t escape 

My ghost house
I’m scared to close my eyes 
I’m back in my ghost house
I’ll find a way out

Sometimes I wonder why it’s so hard to surrender
They want me dead I run to find shelter
Fighting for survival I know it’s in my nature
Show me the cards at the end of the day it’s me and 

My ghost house
I’m scared to close my eyes 
I’m back in my ghost house
I’ll find my way out

And when i wake up i search for the meaning
When it gets dark I spend the whole day healin
Fighting for survival I know it’s in my nature
Show me the cards but I know I can’t escape

Ghost house
I’m scared to close my eyes 
I’m back in my ghost house
I’ll find a way out

I don’t want to go back
Can’t stop closing my eyes
I don’t want to go back
Back to my ghost house

I’m scared to close my eyes 
I’m back
I’m scared to close my eyes 
I’m back I’m back

I’ll find a way out

Ghost House

written by Ian Holmes + me
produced by Ian Homes
mixed by Ian Holmes
mastered by Brett Shaw
cover by Ruby Graunt

Voices in my head
What are you waiting for?
Struck by lightning
Like that old broken Ford 
Parked on Ivory Road

One more day
The sun will rise again

When doubt comes creepin'
And I'm losing myself
Your hands on the blanket 
Holding me hostage

My mind is an ocean
You're just a wave
I know who I am
So who the hell are you anyway?

Who the hell, who the hell
Who the hell are you
Who the hell, who the hell
Who the hell are you anyway?

Ah ah ah 
Ah ah ah ah

I want to take more space
I want to say what I want to say
Even if my voice shakes

I'm tired of always puttin' up a front
I'm sick of never gettin' what I want
Maybe I'm meant for more than holding on

One more day
The sun will rise again

When doubt comes creepin'
And I'm losing myself
Your hands on the blanket 
Holding me hostage

My mind is an ocean
You're just a wave
I know who I am
So who the hell are you anyway?

Who the hell, who the hell
Who the hell are you
Who the hell, who the hell
Who the hell are you anyway?

Ah ah ah 
Ah ah ah ah

Ah ah ah 
Ah ah ah ah

Who the hell are you anyway?

Who The Hell Are You

I kept this song to myself for nearly 10 years. It's now yours.

written by me
produced/mixed by: Alan Charles Smith
mastered by: John Webber at Air Studios
keys: Freya Ward-Smith
violin: Anabel Roberts
trumpet: Simon Pelé

LYRICS (IN FRENCH)
Les murs s'effondrent les couches s'écaillent
Pour ne révéler que les fêlures dans les détails
Accepter de les laisser au gré du vent
C'est comme ça que j'ai su, tu étais important

Lire entre les lignes, déchiffrer les intervalles
Et se retenir pour ne pas se faire mal
Bâtir des murs pour se protéger
Tomber dans l'eau le cœur desséché

Je ne suis qu'une âme taillée à la pierre
Toi tu la réchauffes comme un manteau en hiver
Je ne cherche qu'un souffle, un filament de lumière
Tu me fais l'effet apaisant de la mer
Tu me fais l'effet apaisant de la mer

Jeter des mots en carton sur le papier
Repasser la cassette de mes pensées rembobinées
Attendre une voiture qui n'passera jamais
S'enivrer d'un regard qui s'est détourné

Je ne suis qu'une âme taillée à la pierre
Toi tu la réchauffes comme un manteau en hiver
Je ne cherche qu'un souffle, un filament de lumière
Tu me fais l'effet apaisant de la mer
Tu me fais l'effet apaisant de la mer

Un jour saisirons-nous le noir de nos ratures
De ces instants de grâce il me reste mon armure
Un jour saisirons-nous le noir de nos ratures
Tu restes ma plus belle erreur d'écriture

Oh oh oh (un jour saisirons-nous le noir de nos ratures)
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh (un jour saisirons-nous le noir de nos ratures)
Oh oh oh (saisirons-nous le noir)
Tu me fais l'effet apaisant de la mer

Oh oh oh
Tu restes ma plus belle erreur d'écriture

LYRICS (IN ENGLISH)
Walls are crumbling, layers are flaking off
They're revealing the cracks in details
I let them sway softly in the wind
That's how I knew you were important

Read between the lines, decipher the intervals
And holding back to not get hurt
Built walls to protect oneself
Falling in the water with a dried heart

I’m just a stone-carved soul
You warm it up like a coat in winter
I’m only searching for a breathe, a light filament
You're like the sea you're soothing me

Throw empty words on the paper
Play again the cassette tape of my rewinded thoughts
Wait for a car that will never come
Get drunk on eyes that have looked away

I’m just a stone-carved soul
You warm it up like a coat in winter
I’m only searching for a breathe, a light filament
You're like the sea, you're soothing me

Will we ever understand the blackness of our crossings-outs
What is left of those moments of grace is my armor
Will we ever understand the blackness of our crossings-out
You’re still my most beautiful writing error

Oh oh oh (will we ever understand the blackness of our crossings-outs)
Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh (will we ever understand the blackness of our crossings-outs)
Oh oh oh (will we understand the blackness)
You're like the sea, you're soothing me

Oh oh oh
You’re still my most beautiful writing error