Navita - Glittered Hell
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Navita - Glittered Hell
Navita is a fairly new artist in my massive music library. From the first seconds of Glittered Hell, I knew I’d sit down and write about the song this week. Maybe it’s my endless repetition of applying for creative industry jobs (which y’know sucks), the feeling of lostness that haunts me or the simple fact that it’s a perfect good song.
Glittered Hell is a song about feeling stuck in a previously chosen dream that might’ve taken a lot of pursuing and even time, only to realise you’re in a made-up inferno with disco balls on the ceiling to make it seem glam. Musically, the song drives one to think of A24-esque road trip films, or of a main character that’s on a journey to get to a certain point, spiritually, physically or due uncontrollable reasons.
When I asked Navita if she wanted to comment something on the song, she replied with a personal insight where the song originated: “It’s all about how I felt while deciding to quit what I thought was my dream job in fashion in order to pursue what I loved most (music) but didn’t have enough faith in myself to take it seriously. The bridge of the song I wrote while on the way to work basically narrating my cyclical daily routine hahahah. “Glittered Hell” refers to a very glitzy version of your worst nightmare - which to me meant being surrounded by beautiful clothes and parties and people, while ultimately being deeply unfulfilled.”
you’re chasing something
you’ll never catch from behind a cubical desk
there’s nothing wrong with staying scared
maybe one day you’ll end the nightmare
As Navita has said herself, the bridge of this song being her own narration on her work commute, the second verse speaks right into my heart. Often while we’re pursuing something we want, we’re not even really sure what exactly it is. ‘The journey is the goal’ is something you read a lot on the Internet, especially once your algorithm figures out what you spiral about mid your 2am scrolls. And while that might ring true for a lot of things, at the end we always walk towards something specific, if that’s a goal or just a feeling. Otherwise there wouldn’t even be a journey to begin with.
A knowing is also a way to describe it. And the word use of one day in “maybe one day you’ll end the nightmare” is describing that hope, that optimism even when we’re lost in a wild sea of ideas, external opinions, and the endless journaling we spend asking ourselves what we truly desire, what we truly want to do; in short who we want to be.
Navita has teased that her previous singles lead to a complete EP, which obviously I am very excited about & can’t wait to let my thoughts swim in!
if you enjoyed this song, you’ll likely love “Sitting Duck”, Navita’s debut single - here’s the music video:
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This review is written by Bonnie Orbison. She is a published author and her latest release is the poetry collection Pretty Tennessee. If you enjoy her writing, more can be found on her online journal Howdy Bonnie! (poetry and personal diary essays) as well as with her fiction novels.
Here’s a poem of Bonnie’s that you can read while listening to ‘Glittered Hell’:
“sleeping on meadows, city’s parks
with a good book on my heart’s chest
friends are talking besides me and i sleep
dreaming of you, only about you
when i let myself fall onto this earth
you’re coming with me”
Here’s a paragraph from a journal entry of mine, more on goals & unspoken dreams: “There’s a younger and older version of me screaming at me. My younger self asks me why we just don’t do it. Why we keep dragging the dream over and over to the next year. I started this year knowing (promising myself) to go there. Realising I don’t have to experience every single thing I ever imagined during this first trip. I will come back presumably. Very definitely actually if I think about. So there hasn’t to be all these expectations and hopes in this one trip later this year. My older self is wondering where I am. She has her door open and looks at the clock, asking herself when I arrive. Yeah, when do I arrive?