Minor Feelings
Rina Sawayama * Track #1 On Hold The Girl (Japanese Edition)
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Minor Feelings by Rina Sawayama
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Rina SawayamaProduced by
Clarence Clarity & Barney ListerAbout
“Minor Feelings” is the opening track on Rina’s second studio album Hold the Girl, the song is titled after the book Minor Feelings by Korean-American poet Cathy Park Hong about the marginalisation of the Asian-American experience.
As Rina told in a press release:
It sets the thesis for the record...
Minor Feelings Lyrics
[Verse 1]
How am I supposed to feel
When you're telling me that nothing in my life is real?
When you throw your words and hide behind a plastic shield
I just sit and smile
[Verse 2]
Writing my own fairytales
Building forts between the sofa and the windowsill
Dreaming of the day I'm tall enough to save myself
But I was just a child
[Pre-Chorus]
What it takes to recognize
Emotions that I try to hide
The more I keep them all inside
The more they bury me alive
[Chorus]
All my life, I've felt out of place
All my life, I've been saving face
Well, all these minor feelings
Are majorly breaking me down (Breaking me down)
All my life, you took me for a fool
All my life, you told me what to do
All these minor feelings
Are majorly getting to me now
Minor Feelings Q&A
Who wrote Minor Feelings's ?
Minor Feelings was written by Rina Sawayama & Lauren Aquilina & Vic Jamieson.
Who produced Minor Feelings's ?
Minor Feelings was produced by Clarence Clarity & Barney Lister.
When did Rina Sawayama release Minor Feelings?
Rina Sawayama released Minor Feelings on Fri Sep 16 2022.
What did Rina Sawayama say about "Minor Feelings"?
I was so inspired by the title [of the book] itself, because a lot of racial microaggressions are minor feelings, things you don’t feel you should speak up about because it’s not a hate crime or something you think about telling the police. But the reality is, especially with Asian people, that actu...
What have the artists said about the song?
The title of this song is kind of the secondary title of the record. It was inspired by a collection of essays called Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong. It’s the name she gives to this collective feeling that a lot of Asian Americans have about racial microaggressions, and I really connected with th...