Title: “We Are One”
Artist: Kara Romero
From: “Do I Have Your Attention Now?” (2016)
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Length: 4:58
Format: CD Single, Digital Download, Weekly Airplay, 7” Single
Recorded: February – March 2016 – Basement Studios, Brooklyn, New York, US
Genre: Rap, Alternative Hip-Hop, Adult Contemporary
Label: Just Record
Written: February/March 2016
Writer(s): Kara Romero
Producer(s): Kara Romero, TJ Cousins
“We Are One” is the sixth single released from the American rapper ‘Kara Romero’. Marking the culmination of a recent resurgence for the musician which began back in January this year with her track “Same Old Tears”, since that song she has gone on to release two other singles “Perish” and “Where the Real Things Are” and has been praised for the honesty and rawness in her current work. The first of those songs highlighting her own upbringing after losing her mother at a young age and being raised by her father and how she fell into the trappings of alcohol and sex to numb a very real pain that was being felt inside. The follow-up to that was “Perish” which saw Kara show her fighting spirit, having struggled to fully breakthrough into the music industry despite releasing her debut single back in 2012. And she then followed that up with her take on the vanity and fakery of the industry with “Where the Real Things Are”. This new brutally honest lyricism has seen Kara rise to the forefront of her genre with people now anticipating her next release and what subject close to home that she will tackle next.
It appears that this theme is set to continue with her latest offering, “We Are One” which is a heartfelt and emotive call to arms to the entire population in a fight against terror and needless destruction. The backdrop of the song is highlighted early on with a heavy drum beat and a rather aggressive feel as she fires out the opening lines with a passion, “Alright here we go, you got your armour?/Cause we’re living in a world of fuckin’ chaos, a world of fuckin’ drama/Can’t walk down the streets for fear of not makin’ it out alive/Every single day it’s a challenge just to survive/And we’re bolting the doors and pulling the curtains shut/We’re hiding underneath the covers, this shit is fuckin’ rough.” And already it’s distinctly clear where the song is likely to be going from the beginning.
It's the songs pre-chorus which is the highlight of the song, it’s also been posted on social media in the past few weeks and is a repetitive but powerful collection of words that are minimal but very important as Kara asks her audience, “Are you Charlie? Are you Charleston? Are you Paris? Are you Pakistan?/Are you Tunisia? Are you Turkey? Are you Belgium or Japan?.” It’s meaning being that it doesn’t matter where you’re from, it doesn’t matter if terror or destruction is happening where you are, what matters is that it is happening somewhere and we are all humans at the end of the day, she asks are you Charlie, in reference to the Charlie Hebdo attack and does the same for Charleston, Paris, Pakistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Belgium and Japan. All are cities which have dealt with something along those lines and it appears that the main point is that terror is affecting everybody from everywhere, not just those involved or those from those cities highlighted on the news.
It’s another powerful effort from Kara Romero as she continues to step up with her output of music, will it continue her recent string of powerful songs. You can find out when the track drops later this evening.
“We Are One”“Alright here we go, you got your armour?
Cause we’re living in a world of fuckin’ chaos, a world of fuckin’ drama
Can’t walk down the streets for fear of not makin’ it out alive
Every single day it’s a challenge just to survive
And we’re bolting the doors and pulling the curtains shut
We’re hiding underneath the covers, this shit is fuckin’ rough
And we’re surrounded by fear
That we don’t ever make eye contact on the street
This is not how we should be living in the
In the twenty first fuckin’ century
Are you Charlie? Are you Charleston? Are you Paris? Are you Pakistan?
Are you Tunisia? Are you Turkey? Are you Belgium or Japan?
Are you Charlie? Are you Charleston? Are you Paris? Are you Pakistan?
Are you Tunisia? Are you Turkey? Are you Belgium or Japan?
Are you Charlie? Are you Charleston? Are you Paris? Are you Pakistan?
Are you Tunisia? Are you Turkey? Are you Belgium or Japan?
No more single standing
We’re better together
Rid this world of heartache
Until it’s all gone
We’re better together
We are one
Gunshots are the soundtrack to our daily grind
With reporters always stating, ‘they were too young to leave this world behind’
We’re losing good ones by the day and the numbers are getting higher
‘Put your hands up motherfucker we’re about to open fire’
And what did we do to inhabit such destruction
This world don’t need a make-over, it needs a re-construction
Are you Charlie? Are you Charleston? Are you Paris? Are you Pakistan?
Are you Tunisia? Are you Turkey? Are you Belgium or Japan?
Are you Charlie? Are you Charleston? Are you Paris? Are you Pakistan?
Are you Tunisia? Are you Turkey? Are you Belgium or Japan?
No more single standing
We’re better together
Rid this world of heartache
Until it’s all gone
We’re better together
We are one
We’re Charlie, we’re Charleston, we’re Paris, we’re Pakistan
We’re Tunisia, we’re Turkey, we’re Belgium, we’re Japan
We’re Charlie, we’re Charleston, we’re Paris, we’re Pakistan
We’re Tunisia, we’re Turkey, we’re Belgium, we’re Japan
We’re Charlie, we’re Charleston, we’re Paris, we’re Pakistan
We’re Tunisia, we’re Turkey, we’re Belgium, we’re Japan
We’re Charlie, we’re Charleston, we’re Paris, we’re Pakistan
We’re Tunisia, we’re Turkey, we’re Belgium, we’re Japan
We’re Charlie, we’re Charleston, we’re Paris, we’re Pakistan
We’re Tunisia, we’re Turkey, we’re Belgium, we’re Japan
We’re Charlie, we’re Charleston, we’re Paris, we’re Pakistan
We’re Tunisia, we’re Turkey, we’re Belgium, we’re Japan”
Personnel;Kara Romero – lyrics, vocals, production
Augustine Francis – drums, programming, keyboards
Ignacio Santos – bass, mixing, programming
TJ Cousins – production, mixing, engineering
Rebecca Lowell - photography
