MALIA - Deep Blue

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🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

MALIA - "Deep Blue" from the 2021 self-released album Unpolished.

Originally from Seattle, Malia Cunningham moved to California to study political science and sociology. “I just went through the motions. I never did anything with music throughout those years,” she told Buzzbands L.A. “I was so unhappy and realized that everything about my life had to change. That’s when I sat down and had the first, honest conversation I’d had with myself in years. I asked myself, ‘What makes you truly happy, fears aside?’ And I knew the answer was and always had been music.”

From there, she learned how to play guitar and put her soulful voice to work as MALIA. Her debut full-length was appropriately titled Late Bloomer, and a subsequent tour with Syd from the Internet introduced her to a wider audience. Her latest LP, Unpolished, is anything but. In a press statement, she states the album is "about embracing the sides of ourselves that may need some work or TLC, and in doing so, finding great inner peace."

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0:00.0	I just wanna chill and feel good around you
0:16.0	You feel like the bottom of the sea
0:19.0	Yeah, like the thin things I still don't know about you
0:22.0	There ain't no answer, deep blue
0:28.0	That's you, deep blue
0:34.0	That's you, you're filling all my blanks
0:42.0	I like wasting time in the backyard
0:45.0	Looking at out of space
0:49.0	Wonder how I like it so far
0:52.0	I always pass away, don't even know it is
0:55.0	Like we step into a secret little vortex
0:58.0	It don't matter what it's after before it is
1:01.0	Cause all the way, all the way
1:04.0	I'm just tryna chill and feel good around you
1:07.0	You feel like the bottom of the sea
1:10.0	Yeah, like the thin things I still don't know about you
1:14.0	There ain't no answer, deep blue
1:19.0	That's you, deep blue
1:25.0	That's you, like we're all in never ends
1:31.0	Day we won't forget, could we run in circles
1:34.0	And I won't get sick of it
1:36.0	So kinda where we are forever
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