{"id":2444027,"date":"2019-05-10T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=831680"},"modified":"2019-05-10T07:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T13:00:50","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-tiana-khasi-georgias-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-tiana-khasi-georgias-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Tiana Khasi, \u2018Georgia\u2019s Track\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/03.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span>The neo-soul that enjoyed critical and commercial success in the late Nineties and early 2000s is a popular inspiration for young musicians today. But many forget that the best products of that period were more than just delicious atmosphere, cooled-out phrasing and lazy-but-spine-stiffening rhythm \u2014 the songs themselves were immaculate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Australian singer Tiana Khasi nails both the aura and the songwriting on \u201cGeorgia\u2019s Track,\u201d which appears on her solo debut EP,<\/span> <em><span>Meghalaya<\/span><\/em><span>. Khasi\u2019s lyrics trace a crumbling romance \u2014 she accommodates the whims of a selfish partner until she reaches a breaking point. But as Khasi burns \u2014 \u201cloving you is like real-life torture,\u201d she sings \u2014 the instrumental remains impassive, a<\/span> <em><span>Baduizm<\/span><\/em><span>-like slab of funk. To ward off self-seriousness, Khasi adds jolts of playful pizzicato from a small string section and impressively harmonized backing vocals. The singer describes the resulting track as a tale of \u201cintergalactic heartbreak.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Khasi grew up listening to her grandmother\u2019s extensive jazz collection and toying with her piano; she got her start as a singer by working with Brisbane-based producers like The Kite String Tangle. \u201cGeorgia\u2019s Track\u201d started during another group session. \u201cThe instrumental was written as part of an instrumental hip-hop project I\u2019m part of called Astro Travellers,\u201d Khasi explains. \u201cThe band had started writing that, but it wasn\u2019t quite fitting in with what we were working on at the time. I felt a lot of momentum lyrically with the storyline, passionate about finishing and releasing the song.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When she connected with the producer Sampology to begin work on what became<\/span> <em><span>Meghalaya<\/span><\/em><span>, \u201cwe turned fragmented ideas from years back as well as current, improvised ideas into full songs.\u201d \u201c\u2018Georgia\u2019s Track\u2019 is one of the oldest tracks that had been previously written before the recording process,\u201d Khasi adds. \u201cBut as we approached it in the studio, we added more vocal harmonies, and Sampology came up with a great string arrangement. It snowballed into a Khasi song.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/tiana-khasi-georgias-track-831680\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neo-soul that enjoyed critical and commercial success in the late Nineties and early 2000s is a popular inspiration for young musicians today. But many forget that the best products of that period were more than just delicious atmosphere, cooled-out phrasing and lazy-but-spine-stiffening rhythm \u2014 the songs themselves were immaculate. The Australian singer Tiana Khasi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2444027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 21:33:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}