Our song of the week for (09/25) this Friday is No Wind Resistance! By Kinneret. This song came out of Kinneret’s DMZ album, produced in 2019. Now this song is in a “New Age” genre, but what even is that? This song is extremely indie to me. You can find this song on Apple Music, Spotify and Youtube.
Best Scenario for this song to be played: When you’re doing homework and you can’t focus.
Lyrics
But can you ever reach the end of a timeless existence?
I’ll fly under no conditions
Teach myself complete submission
While I grant myself complete permission
Hating your confusion
Denying till it’s proven
Laughing at illusion
Thinking institution’s the solution
While tyranny and irony float in its pollution
Janet, you’ve got no one else you can blame
You’ve stuck all your conscience inside of your brain
So no you just shoot stuff inside of your veins
With your methamphetamine
And once you can see that you’ve trapped all your grace
Maybe you’ll join me and girl we can race
I’ll fly under no conditions
Teach myself complete submission
While I grant myself complete permission
Off-beat heartbeats
Just window seats
For free, for free
Fun story about this song, I found this song on Tik Tok, and someone said that Kinneret promoted it by saying ” if you listen to this on loop you’ll get your homework done”. She did this to boost streams because no song can get you to study unless you allow it to. Tik Tok has been known to get a lot of never before heard of songs or old songs back in the loop and played again. Either way, I was like okay let’s try it. It did not help me, but I did find the song to be really good and I’ve been listening to it since.
It has a nice melody to it and her vocals are on point. When I first listened to this song I had no real clue of what it meant because I was so focused on the melody, but after listening lyrically I still have no real clue of what this song means. I did a little research on the song though and tried to make some meaning of it.
I did bold some lyrics that did make sense, it’s kind of like her saying, to me at least, “I can do more when I’m being held by no boundaries”. I also bolded when she said ” Janet you got no one else to blame…..go ahead and find your meaning with methamphetamine”. This brought me to the conclusion of her meaning of ” No wind resistance”. Janet easily has a drug problem, but maybe that’s what is holding Janet back. Methamphetamine is Janet’s boundary. Kinneret also says ” Maybe you can join me and we can race”. When Janet lets go of her boundaries, her and Kinneret can “run” together.
Kinneret just recently started to get her music recognized even though she released this back in 2019, her music is not as lyric focused as it is more instrumental and melody focused. She focuses a lot on her harmony by using A flat and E flat which is considered a really stable harmony in western music now.
Definitely give this song a listen because it’s extremely good. It doesn’t have a generic melody to it, more of an electronic melody. My favorite part of this song is right before she says ” No streets, receipts”. Right before that you can hear a sound. It’s like a bag of change being shaken and it is the most peaceful sound. It really puts the song together and her voice tone changes right after it and it sounds amazing. You’ll have to listen to it yourself to understand!
Feel free to leave your thoughts and comments on our song of the week. 🙂
So I took the time to listen to the song and I’ve definitely heard a clip of the song before. It’s definitely influenced by some sort of drug use not just because of the lyrics but also because of the kind of psychedelic electronic melody. It’s super catchy though and I know it’ll be stuck in my head for the next day or two.
Also I just thought about this but if you’re looking for another indie artist that for me reminds me a ton of early Tame Impala look up “Low Hum” specifically the song “Comatose.”
I listened to this song while I read the lyrics you posted. It’s really interesting. Up until the part with Janet, I thought the song meant one thing. Janet really flipped that for me. It’s also kind of funny because I heard the intro and thought “”Huh, this feels like a TikTok song.” before I read the last part after the lyrics. I agree that this is a really interesting song and I want to look more into it.
It is a TikTok song now :_)
I like how you kept an open mind when trying out the song for studying and recognized its musical value despite its lack of studying support.
I actually think she’s talking about how us humans are weird. We limit ourselves to one name and all that stuff. It’s kinda obvious but Janet threw off the vibe.
Totally agree with rosy on this. Pretty sure she’s talking about how humans are self-destructing and she’s an alien looking from the outside of all of this. She’s making a social critique about the way that the global north hyper focuses on progress and systems…specifically capitalism.
I love your take on this! Definitely didn’t see it that way. Great new perspective I have on this song now!
This take is what I have been looking for. Thought it myself but couldn’t really put it all together. I totally agree
I love the outtake on this post. It really brought me into another way of viewing the lyrics and meaning to the song. I definitely will be studying more on this song and hopefully absorb what it is that Kinneret is trying to say about this world full of humanoid creatures and their boundaries.
I feel like this song talks about the boundaries set by society and how we are restrained by them when we could do so much more and be open to so much more but instead we let ourselves be guided and in order to feel something some of us resort to drugs.
I thought this song was influenced by hallucinogenic drug use based on the references to “flying” and trying to escape our boring reality as humans (like how we reduce our whole life meaning based on our name as if it has some massive significance) and how we laugh so hard in disbelief at things we don’t believe until they can be proven because humans are so conditioned to only believe in the one “realm” we see. They believe in institution and she believes in freedom. She sings about how she’s not bored, probably because she is having so much fun exploring other worlds while using the hallucinogens. She says she can fly under no conditions as in she can go to space without actually leaving the ground.
Maybe she’s talking from a Cars point of view. “I can run faster with no wind resistance.” Refers a cars aerodynamics. “Imagine being human.” Refers to not being a literal living being.
I love this song so much. For me, this song was not about drug use and more of personal awakening, talking about how humans constantly reduce themselves and resist what really is, thats why we cant fully appreciate or cant move forward, hence the lines ‘ill bet ya i can run faster with no wind resistance.’ And teaching herself complete submission to what is.
Kinneret asks can you ever reach the end of a timeless existence? She expresses how we constantly live in the future, at the same time, as the other comments say, we limit our perception to only one realm. The next part is straightforward “thinking institution’s the solution” and so on.
The Janet part, I think its more of challenging Janet to find her meaning in drugs like “go ahead,” but you can’t. Kinneret says Janet just traps herself with drugs hence cant find freedom in it. But she will eventually realize it and join Kinneret in that epiphany and maybe they can race in finding their meaning (not through drugs), thus “once you see that youve trapped all your grace, maybe you’ll join me and girl we can race”
“No streets, receipts…… just window seats for free” its a common concept in freedom to live as the observer like watching through a window as things come and go.
The last part is also pretty straightforward talking about her freedom.
I love this song so much, im not really sure if this is the real meaning but it was how i saw it :)))
i agree i could definitely see this being the true meaning of the song 🙂
Maybe she’s talking from a cars point of view? “I can run faster with no wind resistance.” Referring to aerodynamics? Or “Complete submission.” As a way of saying the car is completely under the drivers control.