Scientist-Turned-Singer Tarita Releases Her New Single ‘The Grand Old Dance of Love and Hate’

A rush of memories flooded the gates of my mind as the piano notes of ‘The Grand Old Dance of Love and Hate’ struck my eardrums. I tried to shut them away but Tarita and her shadowy voice, the haunting lyrics, and the song’s soft rhythm had already brought tears to my eyes. And memories are cruel beings, especially when they arrive with unannounced melodrama on a receding winter of January morning. Chennai-based singer-songwriter Tarita and her new single ‘The Grand Old Dance of Love and Hate’ aligns perfectly with the dance of the seasons. The end of a long, cold, and painful winter of separation brings forth the soft light of acceptance. As the days get longer and warmer, her rhythmic poetry reminisces memories of what was once a springtime but had to meet its winter.

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The words are heavy and gravitate the listener to the brutal honesty of a heartbreak. “Now we, like echoes in a heart. Old moments we don’t recall… With every step away, from the start”, is an agonising reality to accept, and yet the only way through. “Our worlds are not the same, memories without a name. In the grand old dance of love and hate…I reach for those days, but they slip away.” The longing to recapture those fleeting moments is like slipping away of sand through fingers. Tarita’s ‘The Grand Old Dance of Love and Hate’ is a poignant meditation on the impermanence of connection that aches of nostalgia.