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Trina Chakrabarti shares new single, “Take A Stance” – Interview

Where her debut EP, Underworld, processed personal trauma through myth and metaphor, "Take A Stance" drops the allegory entirely. "I wanted this song to be more stripped down, and really have the lyrics shine," Chakrabarti says.

Trina Chakrabarti shares new single, “Take A Stance” – Interview

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Where her debut EP, Underworld, processed personal trauma through myth and metaphor, "Take A Stance" drops the allegory entirely.

"I wanted this song to be more stripped down, and really have the lyrics shine," Chakrabarti says.

From there, the song widens into a broader argument about complicity and silence, delivered without a single metaphor standing between the listener and the message.

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Where her debut EP, Underworld, processed personal trauma through myth and metaphor, "Take A Stance" drops the allegory entirely. "I wanted this song to be more stripped down, and really have the lyrics shine," Chakrabarti says. From there, the song widens into a broader argument about complicity and silence, delivered without a single metaphor standing between the listener and the message.

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  • Chakrabarti, who works as a registered music therapist, says she wrote the first verse after watching colleagues in her field grow more concerned with the professionalism of language than with the human...

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