A Composer Breaks Down The Music Theory Behind Doechii’s Hit “Denial Is A River”

Making music is a form of therapy for Doechii. Rather than crafting songs that fit current pop-music expectations, she writes deeply personal stories and performs them as catharsis. Unlike other artists in the same space, her goal isn’t to have a song blow up on TikTok. (While that may be a splendid outcome, it’s merely incidental to her process). She described “Denial Is A River,” her biggest single to date before the Gotye-sampling “Anxiety,” as “an inner dialogue that I’m ...

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