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"Touch Me" is a throwback to the fun and flirty call-and-response R&B of the early 2000's. Featuring Bay Area rising act Stunnamn02, the two were first introduced after Stunnaman02 saw Pallaví perform at a show in San Francisco. Says Pallaví, "Stunnaman had me in for a session and I came with this song where I had already laid down the hook. We didn’t even write the song - it was purely just us playing off each other to create the lyrics."
"Touch Me" comes as the announcement of Pallaví aka Fijiana's upcoming album, name to be announced, and includes a music video with two scenes: one at a corner store in San Francisco and the other a recreation of the famous phone scene from the 1991 film Mississippi Masala. Staying true to her roots and themes of identity, Fijiana says, "We wanted to showcase Bay Area culture, where we are both from, and also pay homage to a great interracial love story.”
Pallaví aka Fijiana is an embodiment of the vibrant multicultural landscape of Fiji and the Bay Area. Her sound is as eclectic as her multiple identities, moving from jazz-influenced rap to modern pop and diving into genres like Indo-Afro beat to represent her dualistic cultural identity. She speaks on political issues, spiritual learnings, and romantic experiences but there is one thing everything has in common: everything is rooted in real emotions and experiences. Fijiana can be heard in STARZ’ Blindspotting (‘Droptop Shawty’), has been featured in outlets such as Rolling Stone India, Vogue India, KQED, and Brown Girl Magazine, and the music video for “Identity” was an official selection of the South Asian Film Festival of America.
lyrics
Love me touch me kiss me please me
Tell me you need me
Love me touch me kiss me tease me
Never gon’ leave me
Love me touch me kiss me please me
Tell me you need me
Love me touch me kiss me tease me
Never gon’ leave me
You lookin’ good
Aye fine baby gotta trackstar body where you wanna meet?
My appetite hungry for you tell me where you wanna eat?
Somewhere we could be loud
You know I don’t do discreet
I know you had a long day chill I’ll rub on your feet
How you talk to me smooth
I like that
I know what you used to
I’m not like that
You showing me the right signs
What’s your zodiac?
Reciprocate the energy I give it back
Look you got too much on you and I’m vulnerable so show me that
Telling me your feelings in the present make me unwrap
Aye your body like a boomerang it always make me come back
Know you got me open but I try not to get too attached
Love me touch me kiss me please me
Tell me you need me
Love me touch me kiss me tease me
Never gon’ leave me
Love me touch me kiss me please me
Tell me you need me
Love me touch me kiss me tease me
Never gon’ leave me
I heard you was a player
You believe everything you hear?
Of course I look player if I’m winning and they cheer
Look I heard that you be choosy
Yeah you heard right
I chose you for Fijiana now lemme book a flight
A flight?
Tell me what I need to grab
We could go to paradise and come back and get a bag
I’m a trackstar remember we could run it up
I got Chanel Telfar baby what you tryna stuff
Already gave you filling now we in a dream
You let me go first you know how to treat a queen
I could love you touch you kiss you girl you everything I need
I’m tryna grow with you I’m your garden plant a seed
Love me touch me kiss me please me
Tell me you need me
Love me touch me kiss me tease me
Never gon’ leave me
Love me touch me kiss me please me
Tell me you need me
Love me touch me kiss me tease me
Never gon’ leave me
credits
released September 29, 2023
Produced by Tilden Parc
A hard-hitting, meticulously assembled collage of Indian music spanning Bollywood samples, Bengali religious chants, and more. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 20, 2023
