Personal Decisions As Of Late

Yaya Bey “September 13th”

“September 13th” has a very casual and informal sound that makes it seem as though Yaya Bey just happened to walk into a room while someone was playing a little keyboard riff and started to sing, and someone else was like “oh, we’re doing a song now?” and improvised some percussion. There’s some conspicuous overdubs but they don’t break the loose feel of the song, which has a lost-in-thought quality as Bey works through her feelings after being dumped. She’s not wrecked by the situation, but she’s certainly feeling stuck and lost – the crucial bit here is the repeated thought “when I get out of this hole that you dug for me…” The choice of “when” over “if” in that sentence says a lot about her and the feeling of this song.

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