Hiatus Kaiyote - 'Red Room' (Official Video) 

it really hasn’t felt like that long. they’re the kind of artists that produce long-lasting music

@@princylady1 Still bumping Tawk Tomahawk and Choose your weapon daily like they came out yesterday!

@@bizgraft - Well it seems like Mood Valiant gonna be added. Can't wait.

@@Girlforaction no doubt

Yeah, I wasn't even mad. I understood. And I feel so blessed. I feel like I was part of the process. Like all our collective waiting was necessary to produce this. Wow like wow. The best personal gift for Freedom Day in South Africa and I'm gonna share it. Hope to experience you all one day🇿🇦🇿🇦

This is a beautiful comment ❤️❤️

you still gotta go to the gig

rip

sending love to you + your family. we seeing you in SA

@@lubyp16 No doubt. Her best friends and I will be weeping the whole time

@@hiatuskaiyote appreciate you guys

YES OMG

Yes. I was getting serious Erykah Badu vibes from this delicious song.

🔥🙌🏾

Funk to the yesssss A soulful goldshine that b

Praise

Word!

Ong

Facts lol. So raw

I have been a singer ALL MY LIFE, countless features, solos on projects, the whole nine. I have work with such an impressive list of people..... BUT HER?.... I would love to just be in the SAME ROOM with her has she sings and creates. I am positive that even though I have over 43 years of classical piano, house, gospel, you name it..... That I would learn SO FREAKIN much from her about tonality, breathing, construction of harmonies (which in my circles I am one of the best) and overall bad ass-Ness in 3 hours that it would change the way I approach music for the rest of my life. Love this and every other project. She is AMAZING.

That vulnerability is so raw

What is “cryptic truth”?

Lol @ cryptic truth 👏🏾💛🤗

Do the lyrics mean anything or does she just smoke lots of bong lol

@@HarveyJackson1967 a lot of meaning in it all

@@HarveyJackson1967 Nai explains the lyrics of Choose Your Weapon in the Commentary album.

Yes, probably because arrangement is build around her voice

She sounds like every other brown bread singer of the past 5-10 years lol She even does the retarded trend of mispronouncing words.

It’s literally a carbon copy of Jill Scott

​@@moonchartWell you can tell she likes Jill😂😂

​@@moonchartcarbon copy not in the slightest lol

T o me its cause the tone changes, each time like a new chapter In the narrative

Facts

Straight fax

YEEES!

I'm way too obsessed with them

Knew before I even heard the singles lol I was excited to see they dropped a single though!

Omg, yes!!!!!

How have they not done one already?! That's crazy! 100% agreed.

EXACTLY!

I’d pay as well.. I’ve only been asking for this .. for the last 3-4 years.. i stopped once COVID hit.

Absolutely 100%

100% truth..

Her voice is so beautiful.

Everything about Nai Palm is beautiful, as well as her voice.😍😊❤🌹❤

2:33 :D

It would be nice if that were possible

😊

Amen

this woman was sick? :O

@@elgatoflaco25she beat breast cancer

Ain't just her...

@@ofentsemore not taking anything away from the rest of the group, they’re all amazing! just giving nai her flowers for being an inspiring lyricist/songwriter/performer.

Well put!

@@leopastel this is like the nai formula

she has some lyrics workshops on youtube from years ago they are verry good and worth a watch , enjoy haha

I guess you could say it's such a Mood Valiant 😎

Most def!

Whole thing is a mood haha

is it the car from the nakamara video ??

I hardly think it's haunting. It's such a warm song.

Its a beautifully childlike way of thinking ... just being in the moment and feeling bliss and gratitude in the simplest of things.. reminds me of when my 5 year old daughter told me our blue shower curtain makes her happy 🤣

That is why I love it I can relate to this song so much

I just learned of this group this morning and I’m so glad you explained the song because I’m going on 60 and couldn’t comprehend what the h*ll she was talking about lol I guess if I had listened a few more times I could have figured it out. Her voice reminds me of Macie Gray

reminds me of doing shrooms at sunset in my living room once

@@tysonloveisthemessage7296 I'm 58 and I felt the same way you do about the meaning of the song, lol, that's why I came to the comments to find out, you can learn a lot in comment section most of the time First time hearing of this group today✌️

Husky falsetto and a great recording engineer

How does Otis Redding’s voice sound like cigarettes and velvet?😊

There's a story behind this recording, check it out!

@@444Krich where can I check it out?

@@pamtoledo8126 In HK's Facebook page, a post from a few weeks ago

Was just listening to your music! Happy coincidence we're both here 🌧️

luv u

It has a very pure soul this song! ❤️

What you said .💯💯

There is nothing fragile about her vocals. This is one strong, soulful singer. Stop virtue signaling lol

@@sauceysinister7924 nah they right. She’s portraying a baby girl. If y’all don’t hear what I’m hearing y’all really need a third eye. This shits scary.

the fact that she recorded this while really sleepy but decided to keep it in kinda shows me a need to interpret the vocals as the comfort she feels in the room lol

Certainly, well said.

A true Goddess

Same here. ❤️

It's really quite something. The out of tune piano really surprised me and it fits so well with the cracking 5octave voice

And the lazy drum feel ooph

great comment

It had like a lo fi feel to it, right?

There is loads of good music on there you are obviously not looking or listening deeply enough

the beat is on the kick and they're all very much aware of that you tryhard

@@gloverelaxis lmao relax bro

Lmaooooo so true

Fun fact: there are 525,600 minutes in a year

@@arunkarthikma3121 maybe he meant seconds. Lol

They’ll get a gold record just from you

My Body is Ready

Reminds me of Sia - "Breathe Me" in the beginning. Love that rawness.

Like nails on a chalkboard for me.

@@thewirah1, then go ahead and leave the classroom.

@@alexvanbergeijk609 😭😭😭

@@alexvanbergeijk609, you are my goddamn hero. 😂😂

😂SAME!

Yes!

Right??!!!

It's in the works ;-)

@@hiatuskaiyote OH MY GOD 😭 that would be a dream come true

@@hiatuskaiyote my heart just skipped a beat

@@hiatuskaiyote YesYesYes!.....been trying to conjure you guys onto a Tiny Desk for a year. It would make my millennium. Oh and if you could hit an Outside Lands or Bottlerock Fest in the Bay Area, I would truly be ready to descend. Love you guys. You make magic, love and light.

@@hiatuskaiyote GET OUT NO WAY OMGGG AHHHHHHH!!! THAT'S POG!!!!

Agreed!!!

Chivalry Is Not Dead and All The Words We Don't Say are also on it

welcome to the multiverse of Hiatus Kaiyote

@@nushiousim currently exploring that multiverse and do not want to leave❤️

Could not have said it better myself!!

Hiatus opened for Erykah Badu at Coney Island a few years ago, it was a fantastic match-up!

🤣🤣 ammonia face!!!!

I was thinking the same, this track is very baduish

I hope no one comes at me for this, because I do love Badu's voice. Nai is just so much more refined to me, she just has this coat of polish I've never heard before while still maintaining that raw, queen Badu energy

Yeah! This is the perfect counterpart single to Get Sun with its maximalist production.

Yasssssss!!!!

EVERYTHING

❤ sameeeee i feel like she uncovered a lost gem

This ain’t lost! Glad y’all are finally here :)

❤❤❤❤❤

haha def not

Haha nah I heard it with headphones on the 5th play, and noticed her voice panning back and forth, I had my eyes closed and they were wet when I opened them 😂 💦 sometimes music makes your eyes buss one

I do too

No

No you're not love.💖

It's time for you to showcase your art. I would enjoy watching you create art to ,music like this. let your emotions take over the brush. Call it soul brushing!

@@icpgraphics thank you for saying this. Just know I really needed to hear/read this 💖. I'm going to start posting my art very soon. Thank you my brotha.

@@missmusiq101 Glad the word reached...I will take it a step further. I am willing to create your facebook page intro and edit or help you edit your first 5 videos for free and no strings attached. I just want to pay it forward. if your interested it's all yours and if not, I still believe in your success. #nomoreexcuses

Y'all literally helped save me/my life from a kaleidoscope of pain and loss.. Thank you too all of you since 2015

Alice……come back and listen again……it’s Saturday night…..😎👻

She didn't make it known, this video already had more views than Doja's cover got before she covered it.

So shall it be written, so mote it be!

But so far :(((

I already love this! Thank you!!!

YES

The thought of that gives me goosebumps

that will go crazy!

Yes❤

Thanks, ME TOO!!!

@@phneutro6813 you're welcome

Pp

Ppp

The lyrics, to me, are about an approaching ending that requires entering a safe haven and an ability to savoring the final moments. Red means both danger and gorgeousness to me, and it feels like she’s in a place of great safety, one that is both beautiful and secure. The red hour immediately suggests danger to me, but the way she sings the lyrics makes it feel like she’s glossing over it, so she doesn’t focus on the danger. The sunset in her bedroom exaggerates the presence of the ending (as opposed to it being simply outside her window). The places she’s “in” are interesting to note. A flower and her eyelids. One external and one internal, suggesting that she’s reached a deep place where all of nature connects. The final line creates different meanings based on how it’s sung. “I don’t wanna be” implies she doesn’t want to exist, but then the line is completed by “anywhere but here.” Maybe the “be-ing” is a state of existence that seems fabricated compared to the inner sanctuary of the red room. The delivery of the song is really what ties it all together for me. With each iteration of the text, Nai Palm get more emotive and higher in pitch. For me, it’s almost paradoxical: on one hand, it seems like Nai is getting stronger with every repetition. The way she sings “I got a red room” almost sounds like bragging. On the other hand, it sounds as if she’s regressing into a baby’s voice. If there wasn’t a video, I could imagine her crawling into bed and rocking herself into a fetal position. But it feels like this regression into an infantile innocence IS the strength that she is singing about. It something that comforts her to the point of sleep (the ending sounds like she tired herself out and is being lulled to a haze). To me, there is this complete sense of vulnerability that leads to a profound strength (it is called Mood Valiant, right?) that all beings possess. It’s a reality that’s more real and pure than the reality “outside”. It’s a reality that restores childhood to the point of infancy. It’s a sense of an ending that leads to the beginning of who we really are.