It was written before the song became apt: the artist was surprised herself how precisely ‘Add Some Light’ hit the moment
The singer says the brightest songs are written in the darkest times.
DOROFEEVA has released the dance track ‘Add Some Light’ along with a video.
The outlet TabloID wrote about it.
A coin at the bottom of a fountain
The song is about the state you end up in “under the pressure of falling ceilings” — daily shelling and anxious news — when you start to feel like a coin at the bottom of a fountain and ask more and more often where that light at the end of the tunnel is.
“When my co-writers and I were making this song, we could not even imagine how relevant it would be now. It is about the state we all found ourselves in. About the feeling when the darkness closes in and there is no way out. But inside us there is a strength that keeps us from breaking and leads us to the light,” the artist says.
Who made the track and the video
The track was co-written with Misha Katsurin and Ivan Klymenko — the same pair she would keep working with afterwards.
The video was directed by Ruslan Makhov, who reinforced the song’s message with bright symbols and made the clip emphatically danceable.
“We are all living through dark times, we live in our own ‘bubbles’, we look for light and wait for it to come on. This is a story about a girl who lives in exactly such hard times but keeps creating, keeps being bright, keeps dancing… And she hides past hurts and wounds under protective armour, which is what the image of Nadia the archer stands for,” the director explained.
The symbols read one after another: the bow and arrows are both a challenge and a strength, the cube stands for boldness and a shared dance floor, the web-like rigging for a reality left hanging. Even the ‘heartbeat’ logo is different here: the heart has been tempered by reality and turned sharper.
The artist puts it briefly herself: the brightest songs are made in the darkest times — and this release only confirms the thought.
As ONE//FM reported earlier, the artist gave the Ukrainian romantic comedy ‘Pesyky’ the song ‘Murakami’, which she had kept unreleased until then.
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