#HGPlaylist || Monica Dogra

#HGPlaylist || Monica Dogra


Monica Dogra is not an easy person to ignore. Even when she’s sitting sullen in a quiet corner (which isn’t necessarily a common sight) there’s an energy about her that’s all-consuming. Over the past year, I’ve been privy to many of her masks, most sequinned and polished to a presentable shine. I’ve watched her painstakingly remove some of them too, albeit unknowingly.
And in the midst of it all, I’ve found myself warming up to a woman who isn’t afraid to wear her myriad emotions on her sleeves, pockets, or any other metaphorical elements of clothing that will give them a roof. She dances with abandon, loves with ferocity, grieves with grace and envies with honesty--even when it gets her in more trouble than she’d like.
I could psycho-analyze for more pages than I care to admit but in light of the occasion, I’ve also been privy to her fantastic (and varying) taste in music.
This HG Playlist is a musical map of her world. Navigate it the way she would. With abandon.


I. Waking Up in The Morning and Making Coffee:
I am obsessed with African everything. They know how to move...how to find the light in everything.  I put this on, light some agarbati, and go through my ritualistic process of making my coffee which I’d bet is the best stuff in Bombay. 

II. Getting Ready For The Day:
So Ani Di Franco has always been my most favorite artist in the world. Her lyrics are unparalleled and she is prolific beyond most of her contemporaries. I love that this tune is lesser known, and I love the lyrics. I often feel like a hamster on a wheel. And I’m into the bitter sweet...finding all those upswings in that tireless hustle that we all find ourselves in.
”are you weary as water, in a faucet left dripping, with an incessant sadness, like a sad record skipping?”

III. Pregaming
I like old school hip hop. Missy Elliot is a goddess, and I wish she’d come back and drop another hot tune that busts everyone in the hip hop world’s balls.

IV. Peak of the Party Drop
Again, I’m super into lyrics...and if I had 500 rupees for every time I’ve played this tune in my bedroom or on the dance floor, and had people moshing and shaking their butts to hard they drop to the floor...there’s something magic about this tune that makes you feel like you can take the world...that you can own it...if you jump hard enough.

V. Sunrise
I met Fink...and he is beautiful. He has this indescribable capacity to transport you with the simplest of melodies and lyrics. This one does that. Through this tune, you can see worlds within worlds within worlds, colours blending together and that feeling of accessing your last drops of energy - that sweet fatigue that lends itself to reckless abandon.

VI. First Kiss
For some reason, this song makes me cry. Makes me want to fall in love again and again. Put on some sort of breezy white dress, and put flowers in my hair, and spin in circles until I fall into someone.


VII. Getting Over It
Just listen to this drop. Here’s the thing...play this, and walk the streets at night when everyone else is sleeping....and you’ll start to see clearly...why everything happens for a reason...and for the best...even when it hurts. Bad.

VIII. Hiding In Your Room Shutting The World Out and Writing/Burning Things
This song is just so sexy. The best things happen when you let go of everything else, and start to love yourself. This is a good song to do that to. I’ve once listened to it on repeat for four hours. Literally. “I’m the king. I sit on my own throne”
Boom.

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