It may be summer, but India Shawn is playing it cool on her latest single “Kill Switch.” When faced with a potential romance, the songstress opts out of getting involved with her good friend. Instead, she chooses to guard her heart, protect her peace and remain in the friend zone.
Though many a relationship can grow from the solid foundation of a friendship, India doesn’t want to ruin what they’ve built. “This could turn from a good thing to hate / Keep it shallow for our own sake,” she reasons on the first verse.
Shawn feels the pull between them, but she’d rather push him away. “Anybody else but you / Let’s not even kill the groove / I don’t wanna have to carry your heart,” she sings on the chorus. “Oh, anybody else but you / Let’s not even switch the mood / I don’t wanna have to carry your heart.”
India shared some insight into the song, which she co-wrote with Varren Wade, D’Mile, Livvy Bennett and Michael Benjamin Hunter, via press release. “‘Kill Switch’” is an unexpected shift, as I move away from the familiar shadows of unreturned love and reclaim the power to decide my own fate,” India stated. “It’s a song about recognizing the potential danger of crossing the line from friends to lovers, and trying to safeguard what’s real before it becomes too messy.”
Things get a little messy in the music video for “Kill Switch,” co-starring singer and actor Luke James as her love interest. We catch up with India and Luke at the movies as they watch their relationship play out on screen. There’s drama, there’s action, there’s romance and intriguing moments in the creative visual directed by Anne-Sophie Bine that blurs the line between what’s real and what isn’t.
India Shawn has done it again. Following her stellar run of indie releases, her 2022 major label debut album BEFORE WE GO (DEEPER) and last year’s “There Must Be A God” from the film She Taught Love, she extends her track record of R&B excellence with “Kill Switch.” The song sounds like a cool 1970s breeze and feels just as refreshing in today’s musical landscape.
Currently signed to D’Mile’s VANTA Music label, India Shawn is in good hands — and so is R&B. Listen to “Kill Switch” and watch its visual right here.
