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1. Gordi is a indie-pop singer/songwriter based in Sydney, Australia.
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Raised in the small, farming community of Canowindra in Australia’s New South Wales, amongst a minuscule population of 2381, Payten learned to play piano and guitar in her house — with Billy Joel on near-constant rotation. She left the rural life in her late-teens to pursue a medical education in Sydney alongside her musical career. The dichotomy of those environments — the pastoral and the modern — is surely a guiding influence in Gordi’s music. Earthy, wistful folk songs are cloaked in delicate-but- bold electronic production. And what an effortlessly flooring voice to carry it all, at once fractured and brimming with richness. These are songs you could hear bouncing through the alleyways of the city as much as you could hear them rolling across the fields. Fans in Payten’s native Australia have already been treated to a number of these magical musical moments courtesy of consistent rotation on triple j and FBi Radio, including nominations for a triple J J Award and 2 FBi SMAC Awards in 2015, on top of being named triple j Unearthed’s most played artist during 2015.
The single, "Can We Work It Out" has the big, worldly drums of those aforementioned Peter Gabriel classics and a towering, multi-layered vocal chorus that will instantaneously sear itself into your musical memory. The soft gallop and airy melody of EP opener “Nothing’s As It Seems” feels like the bittersweet sunset of a four-day weekend on the water. “So Here We Are”, a heartbreaking lo-fi piano and vocoder-led ballad. While the instrumentally lush “Wanting” submerges you in a joyous sonic landscape, a bold aesthetic for a tale of longing and reconciliation.
Moments in the EP may recall the early albums of Beth Orton, but more storming and redesigned for the stadiums, festivals and amphitheatres of the 21st Century. Staking that claim, Gordi is already sharing stages with contemporaries like Of Monsters And Men, Highasakite, Little May, Dustin Tebbutt and more. Clever Disguise was created with Melbourne producer Ben McCarthy with additional production by Alex Somers (Sigur Ros) and Francois Tetaz (Gotye). And if it’s merely an aperitif for what Gordi has coming up, we’re in for a magnificent show.
“An absolute work of splendour that will almost certainly make her a star"
- Stereogum (Artist to Watch; top songs of 2015)
“A song to score a daydream”
- Pigeons & Planes
“Breezy, wintry melancholy at its finest”
- The Guardian
“Our standards for indie-folk music this year have been set very high by artists like Vance Joy and Xavier Dunn, but here, we find that Gordi is still capable of surpassing our expectations with her lovely first offering, Nothing’s As It Seems”
- Hilly Dilly (Top 25 Australian songs 2014)
“What’s not to like about this”
- Stuart Murdoch, Belle & Sebastian
“Brand new label mate that is REALLY crushing music – G-O-R-D-I”
- Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)
"Gordi's most lushly atmospheric and spaciously produced work to date"
- The Line of Best Fit
"As abrasive as it is gorgeous"
- All Song Considered, NPR Music
"The smooth, low timbre of her voice feels like that still time of the morning before anyone else is awake, watching blooms of ice to melt into the window"
- Yen Magazine
“What a beauty! Smart production, sublime songwriting”
- Dom Alessio, triple j
“It is without a doubt that Gordi is charismatic individual, easily able to hold a crowd in the palm of her hand”
- Semplesize
“A musical mystic pulled from the pages of some pastoral romance.”
- Music Feeds
Can We Work It Out
Gordi Lyrics
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Wrestling my instincts to keep 'em at bay
'Cause forgetting you is like ignoring the weather
Or wanting you takes as long as forever
And I don't know how much longer I can keep it inside
Can we work it out?
Can we work it out?
That what you want can become something you need
Can we work it out?
Go on and get out of my head
Or stay, tell me something instead
Tell me how we work this out
And what the struggle's about
You're asking me to give you all I have
Tell me how to change your mind
Can we work it out?
Can we work it out?
'Cause every fiber of my being's agreed
That what you want can become something you need
Can we work it out?
Won't you just open your eyes?
And see that we are failing at our clever disguise
Can you pick a point that we can choose to rewind to
Or know there's better days ahead than behind you
'Cause I can't see anything ahead of me now
Can we work it out?
Can we work it out?
'Cause every fiber of my being's agreed
That what you want can become something you need
Can we work it out?
Gordi's song Can We Work It Out is a plea for communication and resolution. The singer is tired of repressing their feelings and wants to work things out with the person they are singing to. The first verse expresses their struggle to forget the person while also acknowledging that wanting them is a perpetual desire. The repetition of "Can we work it out?" reinforces that this is the main question they want an answer to. The singer is desperate for a response from the other person, asking them to "get out of [their] head" or to give them something tangible to work with.
In the second verse, the singer puts the ball in the other person's court, asking them to explain what they want and how they think they can work things out. The line "You're asking me to give you all I have" suggests that the other person is making demands without giving much in return. The repeated plea for resolution shows how important it is to the singer to work things out, but they can only do it with communication from the other person.
The bridge of the song is where Gordi highlights the importance of recognizing the problem and making a change. The singer asks the other person to "open [their] eyes" and see that their current approach is not working. They suggest that they need to find a point to "rewind to" or focus on the potential for better days instead of dwelling on past mistakes.
Overall, Can We Work It Out is a song about the importance of communication and resolving conflicts in relationships. The repetition of the title phrase emphasizes the singer's desperation for resolution and the importance of working through problems to move forward.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm tired of just hiding away
I'm exhausted from constantly trying to hide my feelings
Wrestling my instincts to keep 'em at bay
Struggling to control my feelings and impulses
'Cause forgetting you is like ignoring the weather
Trying to forget you is as impossible as ignoring the weather
Or wanting you takes as long as forever
My desire for you seems to be never-ending
And I don't know how much longer I can keep it inside
I'm unsure of how long I can continue to hide my true feelings
Can we work it out?
Is there a way for us to fix things?
Go on and get out of my head
I need some space to clear my head and figure out what to do
Or stay, tell me something instead
If you stay, please communicate with me and help me understand what's going on
Tell me how we work this out
I need to know how we can fix our relationship
And what the struggle's about
I want to know what the issue is that's causing our relationship problems
You're asking me to give you all I have
You want me to give you everything I have to fix our relationship
Tell me how to change your mind
Please help me understand what I can do to change your perspective and fix our relationship
Won't you just open your eyes?
Could you please see that we are struggling and need to work on our relationship?
And see that we are failing at our clever disguise
Our attempt to hide our relationship problems is not working, and we need to address them head-on
Can you pick a point that we can choose to rewind to
Can we identify a specific time in our relationship where things started to go wrong and try to fix it from there?
Or know there's better days ahead than behind you
We need to have hope that our future together will be better than our past
'Cause I can't see anything ahead of me now
I'm having trouble seeing a positive future for our relationship
Lyrics © MUSHROOM MUSIC PTY LTD
Written by: SOPHIE PAYTEN
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Gordon S
Been following you for a decade and you never disappoint.
Margarita Rodríguez Mazariegos
Esta canción me ha ayudado muchas veces en mis ataques de pánico. Gracias por existir. ❤️
MoMo Ng
been a super fan for a few years. love ur sh*T... keep it up. and the one think i love the most is all the new artist ur introducing to me and i thank you for that! -Morris
Prakeern Gupta
If you're reading this CAN YOU PLEEASE MAKE THE REMIX FOR KISS ME AGAIN available on Apple Music. It's one of my favourite songs ever and it isn't available on it.
Prakeern Gupta
@RAC you're literally the best for even taking out the time to reply to this, let alone taking the effort to actually making it happen. Thank you so much!
RAC
With remixes that's usually beyond my control, so I can't do much unfortunately. I'll send them a screenshot of this though.
Yawnza
Rac is my happy hours.
Caspar
Why is everything you touch so beautiful?
Sky
RAC Vol 3 soon? 👀
NAGEL_XD123
Been following you since I was 12, now im 16 :’)