TANSU Unveils New Single ‘Downtown’
Harlem based singer-songwriter TANSU shares her brand new single Downtown, the latest single to be lifted from her debut EP, The City, out now via Little Planet Music.
Downtown is a sultry, neo-soul cut that finds TANSU beautifully showcasing her rich, expressive vocals and storytelling abilities over an infectious electro/contemporary r&b production. In this song TANSU sings about a bittersweet tale of love, sexy and jealousy, which attempts to interrogate the emotions that fuel nights of recklessness and partying. A relatable song about the ups and downs of a long term relationship that is wrapped around a memorable, undulating backdrop with a killer bassline, lush synths and groovy rhythms that together create an overall warm, laid-back atmosphere.
Speaking about the song, TANSU said,
I wrote this song on the heels of The First Big Fight with, who was then, my new boyfriend. It was weird, because I was treating the fight with one-night-nonchalance; kind of a, ‘don’t worry baby, I never liked you that much anyway’ type of feeling. Because that’s how you were SUPPOSED to feel when dating in the late 2010’s. ‘Grabbing my scars/ and then deciding just to walk out’ is a very intimate line. It questions how we can be intimate with someone, touch each others’ bodies, our scars, our souls, and then pretend that we can just move on. It’s hard to justify an intimate fling with your soul. ‘DOWNTOWN’ speaks to the juxtaposition of that mind fuck, fresh from the fight, I needed some glorifying attention from someone else. So I went to the studio to go write something. Luckily my producer was also going through a situational something, so we came up with a sexy song while both sexually frustrated. We ended up going out to Three Diamond Door in Bushwick that night after that session. The bridge is an interpretation of what happened after Three Diamond Door. We were buzzed, music made us dance, I got the attention I thought I wanted… but as soon as I stepped outside, I knew who I was calling.