Singer Shakthisree Gopalan on her latest independent release, 'Old Friend’
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It was during the lockdown in 2020 that Shakthisree Gopalan put pen to paper for a song. On a particularly uneventful day – the kind that makes you question where life is headed and revisit certain incidents – the singer-songwriter penned this line, “Why should I pay a price to be myself when the world is going mad?”Those words would finally find a home in ‘Old Friend’, an intimate track that may well be her most vulnerable work yet. “It’s about my inner demons. It holds everything – from my neurodivergence, my mental health, and above all, choosing myself,” she writes in a note about the track.First featured at a Friday student concert during her days at Berklee NYC, ‘Old Friend’ is a deeply lived song.“It is,” she admits, in a conversation with The Hindu, “Every time I have performed this song, some part of me healed.”
Shakthisree Gopalan during the shoot of ‘Old Friend’
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