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Your twenties are full of contradictions. You crave change, but ache for the comfort of the familiar. You celebrate growth, but mourn the people and places you leave behind. On her new single Wash, Aotearoa singer-songwriter CAITLIN captures that push and pull with raw honesty, stepping into a bolder, indie-rock-leaning sound that mirrors the turbulence of its subject matter.
The song feels like a diary entry written on the edge of departure, part longing, part determination. References to Dunedin’s Baldwin Street, the world’s steepest residential street, ground the track in a distinctly New Zealand image of uphill struggle and inevitable slips. The river, meanwhile, becomes a more universal metaphor: equal parts promise and danger, it can carry you forward toward growth or sweep you away if you let the current decide for you.
“Water your own pasture, it’ll turn green someday. Or the river will wash you away,” CAITLIN sings in the chorus, distilling the weight of choice into a single line. It’s a lyric that could resonate with anyone watching friends leave home in search of new beginnings, or standing still and questioning whether they should follow. That tension is the heart of Wash, an anthem for those caught between staying and going, comfort and change.
It’s a song that doesn’t offer easy answers, and that’s precisely its power. Growth rarely feels clean. Sometimes it’s steep like Baldwin Street, sometimes it’s as unpredictable as a river. Wash lives in that uncertainty, and in doing so, feels like the truest soundtrack to your twenties.
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