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Switch

by Leila Misel

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With it's mesmorising guitar riffs and unique, bluesy-rock vocals, Switch is the debut single of Australian singer/songwriter Leela Misel.

Illuminating the darkness through story-telling and catchy melodies, Switch explores themes of racial discrimination and code switching.

Leela Misel wrote this song after hearing the term 'code switching' on a podcast. The song celebrates this as a skill, while also grieving at repressing "so much of what makes me who I am, just to keep others from treating me differently because of my race or heritage".

lyrics

Can’t be myself around strangers
I hide, in plain sight
Like an agent, undercover
My cloak is my smile

Don’t chip away at my identity
Don’t trip out on my ancestry
Big hair, brown skin
Roots north, off the coast of Darwin

I got my super high highs
And my super low lows
I can switch, I can switch,
I can Tik Tok and Blow!
All the supervised lies
And the future don’t know
I can switch, I can switch,
I can, TikTok and Blow!

You! Can’t turn my volume down
No! I will not compromise
Rules! Rules are meant to be, broken
Broken like my eyes….

I got my super high highs
And my super low lows
I can switch, I can switch,
I can Tik Tok and Blow!
All the supervised lies
And the future don’t know
I can switch, I can switch,
I can, TikTok and Blow!

Turn me upside down
Turnin’ white from brown
No big, no bold
Stolen rivers of gold

I got my super high highs
And my super low lows
I can switch, I can switch,
I can Tik Tok and Blow!
All the supervised lies
And the future don’t know
I can switch, I can switch,
I can, TikTok and Blow!

I got my super high highs
And my super low lows
I can switch, I can switch,
I can Tik Tok and Blow!
All the supervised lies
And the future don’t know
I can switch, I can switch,
I can, TikTok and Blow!

credits

released March 25, 2022
Andrew Day, Nightswimmer

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Leila Misel Melbourne, Australia

Singer-songerwriter of Indonesian-Malaysian heritage, Leela Misel is based in Melbourne/Naarm.

Leela Misel is a cultural nomad, drifting obsessively between tribes & identities. Looking outside her skin for her truth.

An experienced performer, Covid inspired Leela Misel to learn guitar for the first time & embark on an unexpected, emotional journey into the craft of songwriting & recording.
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