{"id":641856,"date":"2024-10-18T16:41:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dua-salehs-heavy-songs-for-end-times\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T16:41:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T13:41:32","slug":"dua-salehs-heavy-songs-for-end-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dua-salehs-heavy-songs-for-end-times\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dua Saleh\u2019s heavy songs for end times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a39b7c312398\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dua-salehs-heavy-songs-for-end-times\/#The_Sudanese_American_artist_discusses_the_personal_and_global_influences_behind_their_new_album_I_SHOULD_CALL_THEM\" >The Sudanese American artist discusses the personal and global influences behind their new album, I SHOULD CALL THEM<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Sudanese_American_artist_discusses_the_personal_and_global_influences_behind_their_new_album_I_SHOULD_CALL_THEM\"><\/span>The Sudanese American artist discusses the personal and global influences behind their new album, <i>I SHOULD CALL THEM<\/i><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265021\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" 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750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/9e461692-3e1b-11ef-845e-44a842376381_falpig\/dua-saleh.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/9e461692-3e1b-11ef-845e-44a842376381_falpig\/dua-saleh.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/9e461692-3e1b-11ef-845e-44a842376381_falpig\/dua-saleh.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/9e461692-3e1b-11ef-845e-44a842376381_falpig\/dua-saleh.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/9e461692-3e1b-11ef-845e-44a842376381_falpig\/dua-saleh.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Dua Saleh\u2019s heavy songs for end times\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Dua Saleh<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      Grant Spanier<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265013\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            When Dua Saleh jokes that <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/earth-will-capture-second-moon-sept-2024\">the second moon<\/a> is fucking everything up, it\u2019s really just code for mankind. We\u2019re on the precipice of a presidential election, still reeling from a pair of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/helene-milton-hurricanes-climate-development-damage-costly-82c1d5df81c76fa08e035bf7c6db3a37\">Category 5 hurricanes<\/a> and bracing ourselves for an incoming <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nesdis.noaa.gov\/news\/severe-geomagnetic-storm-causes-visible-aurora-north-america\">severe solar storm<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265030\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265014\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            \u201cThe flooding h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening throughout the U.S., the fires on the West Coast,\u201d the Sudanese American artist says, adding to the list. There is also \u201cthe piles and piles of trash and technological excess and waste\u201d a few miles away from their extended family, who are living through what\u2019s at least the country\u2019s third civil war in 20 years. <\/p>\n<p>            It\u2019s almost enough to compete with the environmental apocalypse depicted on their full-length debut, <i>I SHOULD CALL THEM<\/i>, where a tumultuous past relationship serves as \u201can allegory for human interactions with Earth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            \u201cIt\u2019s about how we fell in love with Earth when we were first born into the world, as organisms and as humans,\u201d says Saleh, who also starred as Cal Bowman in Netflix\u2019s <i>Sex Education<\/i>. \u201cBut there&#8217;s a bit of toxicity and back and forth between us and the Earth,\u201d they continue, while detailing the personal reckoning that came with writing their most forthright work to date. <\/p>\n<p>            <i>I SHOULD CALL THEM<\/i> is a beautifully conflicted and layered work that still feels intimate, while also addressing so many global and domestic sociopolitical issues. They write about queer love, situationships, and anxiety in a way that\u2019s painful and direct, held up against a chaotic backdrop of experimental pop-R&amp;B that incorporates elements of heavy metal, trap, hyperpop, and Sudanese orchestral music. The album\u2019s woozy textures and cinematic crescendos were created alongside close collaborators Ambr\u00e9, Gallant, serpentwithfeet, and Sid Sriram. Saleh\u2019s doomed love story is a tale of both agony and ecstasy, brutal in its simplicity and told so beautifully, there are points where it truly feels like the end is nigh.   <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265019\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 786px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2994012583\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=de270f\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/duasaleh.bandcamp.com\/album\/i-should-call-them\">I SHOULD CALL THEM by Dua Saleh<\/a><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265031\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265015\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>The FADER: Why decide on a narrative-driven record? <\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>Dua Saleh:<\/b> I write songs in a way that&#8217;s flowery because of my poetry background. Distraction has been a way for me to avoid vulnerability but I didn\u2019t want to cloak my words in this rich complexity, I wanted it to be raw and pungent. <\/p>\n<p>            It actually brought me back to the era when I was doing open mics. There was one in particular that was a few blocks from my mom&#8217;s house, where the poets who\u2019d come on stage spoke in these accessible ways. I\u2019d start crying hearing their words, more than when I was listening to somebody else using theatrics for a \u201cslam poetry\u201d style performance. <\/p>\n<p>            Writing [<i>I SHOULD CALL THEM<\/i>] also reminded me of my historically Black neighborhood. There are ways to be an orator outside of white academia, which is enriching for the acquisition of vocabulary, but not always reflective of real life experience.<\/p>\n<p>            I feel like that&#8217;s what this is, though, so I&#8217;m excited to put it out because I&#8217;m making my neighborhood proud. In my heart, I feel like the neighborhood that I was primarily raised in, the people will hear the music and finally hear me. [<i>I SHOULD I CALL THEM<\/i>] is processing my love life, and I wanted to give people insight into my lived experience by making the songwriting more accessible. The conceptual and heavy stuff is still there \u2014 in the overall story and sonically in the production \u2014 but I wanted people to understand the lyrics. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>Speaking of the production, the album is much more experimental musically than your past releases. What was the impetus for this?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            As a story, it&#8217;s all about two lovers that fall in love, move away from each other for a bit because of toxicity, find each other again, and then reach the apex of their relationship \u2014 just as the world is falling apart around them. The climax is \u201c2excited,\u201d which starts as contemporary R&amp;B with some jazz fusion and, at the end, you hear me screaming with the guitar and a double kick-drum before exploding into a black metal song. <\/p>\n<p>            It&#8217;s part of a concept I begged the executive producers to put onto the album, because I wanted to do a screamo R&amp;B song. But they thought black metal R&amp;B made more sense, because screamo is a bit more angsty and requires certain inflections. We did attempt it, but I didn&#8217;t realize how complex doing screamo would be. Technically though, I think we did create a new sub-genre around this song: Black R&amp;B.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265016\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2excited\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yv3wwoOdHL8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265017\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>Since this record is deeply rooted in your own personal experience, did you consciously try to incorporate any sounds or imagery in homage to your identity as a queer, Muslim, first-generation Sudanese American?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I wanted to do an R&amp;B project, because it reminds me of the Rondo neighborhood where I grew up in Minnesota. The Black musical sound of R&amp;B also reminds me of traditional Sudanese music. It brings me back to a place of listening to operatic Sudanese singers using the pentatonic scales that Destiny&#8217;s Child and Beyonc\u00e9 were also using to be expressive in their singing. <\/p>\n<p>            I\u2019m influenced a lot by the orchestral sound of Sudan, a lot of which came between the \u201880s and blew up in the \u201890s. I also do like the traditional sound of oud-playing, which sounds like guitar-playing in the U.S. So in \u201ctime &amp; time again\u201d featuring Sid Sriram, we added guitar just to make it seem more natural and bring it back into that ethereal string sound. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>Was there a reason you didn\u2019t include an actual oud?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Just access to players. They\u2019re really difficult to find, and I wanted to have a Sudanese person do it. But that&#8217;s probably going to come in a future project that&#8217;s more organic-sounding and more influenced by actual musicians from Sudan. <\/p>\n<p>            That reminds me, in Sudan, there are a lot more women who are musicians, because we&#8217;re such a musical landscape. Like my aunties will play drums at town gatherings and stuff, where everybody will sing along, and some of my other aunties play strings and stuff like that. They know how to play viola and violin, and you&#8217;ll see them in the orchestras now, mainly because of modernization. There&#8217;s more access and less of an effect from what some might call it \u201cMiddle Eastern imperialism\u201d and [conservative Islamic tradition], I think. I can&#8217;t speak for everybody, but I think it&#8217;s cool that Sudanese women do that, and how people will bust out into songs at everything. <\/p>\n<p>            My siblings have sent me videos of people busting out into song and like the women playing drums, but I didn&#8217;t even realize that until recently, because I&#8217;ve never been to Sudan [as an adult]. They had the death penalty up until 2020 for gay people and trans people, so I was scared. I mean, my family members know that I was in [Sex Education], and I don\u2019t think they didn&#8217;t care as much, because my auntie Aisha calls me every once in a while on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a>\u2026But I knew that it would be different political terrain for me to be in, physically. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>I can\u2019t imagine what it\u2019s like to have such a deeply personal connection to something like that, let alone how emotionally devastating it is to watch everything from afar. Add that to the environmental havoc being caused and the foreign nations feeding into political instability for natural resources, it feels like a lot.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            And mainly for a lot of rocks. They just like, want all the minerals and rocks, mainly gold. It\u2019s legitimately scary what\u2019s happening there and the rest of the Continent. I even reference it on \u201cunruly\u201d \u2014 \u201cdiamonds on my wrist \/ left blood on my hands\u201d \u2014 and all the weapons proliferation in Sudan as a result of the wars. The environmental effects of that, of crops being burnt by both  the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces, and how [foreign powers] were looking for access to oil in the \u201890s. Now, it\u2019s gold, and Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and other places in the Middle East are seeking out resources from Sudan that are shipped from my home area, Kassala. And that\u2019s the primary cause of political strife within Sudan right now. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>Honestly, it\u2019s a little shocking how little attention it\u2019s gotten historically. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I keep thinking about that, and I feel like people don&#8217;t really get it. I haven\u2019t really talked publicly about my past before, but I think upwards mobility has really skewed my perception of things.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265020\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_1_keahtk\/dua-saleh-i-should-call-them-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_1_keahtk\/dua-saleh-i-should-call-them-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_1_keahtk\/dua-saleh-i-should-call-them-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_1_keahtk\/dua-saleh-i-should-call-them-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_1_keahtk\/dua-saleh-i-should-call-them-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_1_keahtk\/dua-saleh-i-should-call-them-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_1_keahtk\/dua-saleh-i-should-call-them-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_1_keahtk\/dua-saleh-i-should-call-them-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_1_keahtk\/dua-saleh-i-should-call-them-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_1_keahtk\/dua-saleh-i-should-call-them-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/unnamed_1_keahtk\/dua-saleh-i-should-call-them-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Dua Saleh\u2019s heavy songs for end times\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Rhianna Hajduch<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265018\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>That was something you kind of addressed on your last EP, <i><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/duasaleh.bandcamp.com\/album\/crossover-deluxe\">CROSSOVER<\/a><\/i>. Granted, I also think that\u2019s just what happens with upwards mobility. It gives you a lot more time and energy to intellectualize, because you can focus on more than just surviving day-to-day. You have that extra time to think about the minutiae of the system and obsessively follow <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> \u2014 or just bury your head in the sand.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            It\u2019s funny, because I think I perused the news more when I was in survival mode. I think part of it is the laziness that comes along with wealth, because you&#8217;re not being directly affected in the way that other people are affected. But that\u2019s also something I think about with myself constantly because, before, I would actively seek out podcasts from people who are more left leaning closer to the socialist perspective. Now, I can just turn on Al-Jazeera or Sky News to see what&#8217;s happening. I used to endorse the Green Party and, now, I\u2019m more comfortable talking about the Democratic Party as something that would be more in alignment with what I would want for the kids of the future, which isn\u2019t necessarily how I would have aligned myself In the past. <\/p>\n<p>            But I think maybe that&#8217;s also rooted in transness as well. As I said before, there&#8217;s a lot of fear instilled in my heart as a result of being persecuted, both legislation-wise and in real life, and for trans Black women, trans women, trans men, non-binary people who like are post-op, trans people who are out, people who are pre-op, and anyone who\u2019s publicly honest about their identity. Even trans people who are closeted, or people who eventually find out that they&#8217;re trans in some capacity. I&#8217;m just scared of what&#8217;s going to happen for us. Scared about access to health care, scared about access to education, and even the books being s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped away from people like drag artists. Being unable to even read a wholesome book to kids, and seeing all these things piling up, it\u2019s detrimental to my mental health. And I feel like as a result of that, I see things through upward mobility, and it\u2019s a dilution of my older understanding of self. I am more comfortable in the status quo, which I don&#8217;t think is good. <\/p>\n<p>            <b>I think it\u2019s hard with this current system, though. Right now, you\u2019re having to choose between outright persecution or slightly less persecution, which is some real end-of-the-world stuff.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Yeah, the thought of an apocalypse feels too real. We&#8217;re truly on the brink of it. It\u2019s terrifying.  <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Sandra Song<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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