Physician-musician, V.Tiarrá uplifts her soulful vocality to touch on the issues within our society and world. Her latest single, “Batter Up,” puts the proof in the pudding as she speaks about racial discrimination, saying, “We living, dying, but you lying it is not a game.” Not to mention, she uses baseball as a metaphor because it is America’s favorite sport. Elsewhere, the songstress details the other occurring issues in America. Given the context, it’s safe to say that there are more problems than worldwide solutions. “Everybody a terrorist/Stocks up/Better invest/What’s the game that we playing?/World Series,” she raps.
“I had this video in the vault, and people I had initially shown it to contacted me and said, ‘People need to hear this!'” V.Tiarrá says about the music video for “Batter Up.”
“The video centers around baseball, America’s favorite game. Another favorite game in America — a deadly game — is racial inequality. And it’s one that looks exactly the same today as when I made the video in 2018.”
“Batter Up” is an R&B offering that carries a victorious tone. Likewise, the soundscape holds warm piano loops, electro synths, drum rolls, and eerie organ chords.
Listen: – V.Tiarrá “Digital Love”
Her last single, “Digital Love,” is a pop offering that sees V.Tiarrá speaking about the disconnection we face because of technology. Rather than having a real-life interaction, others choose to talk via text messages, instant messages, etc. In hindsight, others seek self-validation from likes, comments, and other factors that play into social media traction. Case in point, “Digital Love” urges others to be less dependent on their devices.
“I pray the day will come/When the stars and the moon will show love/All I need is connection/Some real love in this digital world,” she sings.
The song also serves listeners with witty punchlines that reference social media platforms and dating apps. Take, for instance, this line, “Pics all on the gram/Social distance/In the club/Masks off/Will they really show their tinder heart?” Vocally, the singer oscillates between a powerful register and concrete rhymes.
Wilder, whose stage name is Venis Tiarrá, always had a knack for crooning. She sang in her church choir, was a middle school band member, and played both piano and clarinet.
V.Tiarrástarted her musical journey following her college days at Duke University and Harvard Medical School. Once she enrolled at Columbia University in New York City,V.Tiarrá thought more about music and its true healing power.
“I would come home from a very long shift and just write songs, or sometimes just re-write the lyrics of existing songs to create a message of health,” she says. “I wanted to find a way to show people that health can be cool. And here I am, almost a decade later, realizing that I can do this, as a physician, using my own music.”
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