Tiana Tara Talks New Song and Video ‘Glad You Came Along’

Singer-songwriter Tiana Tara journeys in and out of pangs of loneliness to feel gratitude in the music video for her latest song “Glad You Came Along.”

The track, made with guitarist and songwriter Debanjan Biswas starting during the pandemic-enforced lockdown in 2021, was pushed past the finish line much later when they began working with producer Hardik Pandya.

While the audio was released around Valentine’s Day, Tara says it can be interpreted as conveying more than just romantic love. “For me it’s taken on so many more meanings about being an expression of gratitude for those people in our lives who make us feel at home and less alone. It’s also about how we show up for ourselves the more we grow and change and begin to appreciate the good around us,” the artist says.

That’s exactly the kind of transformation that Tara undergoes in the video directed by filmmaker Ayush Saxena with production house THNDRtv. Tara says, “The intention was to take the viewer through an internal monologue of our protagonist as she looks away (literally) from everything that she has to be grateful for and instead spirals in negativity and dwells in her disconnectedness. Until she takes notice of how the people around her show up for her and how she is surrounded by love.” By the end of it, the song and video shows us a protagonist who feels seen.The motive, according to the artist, was to make the audience “feel the heaviness” right up to when the video sees Tara floating, buoyed by the lightness of her realizations. “Our DOP, Leslie D’Souza, left empty spaces in the frame to showcase the emptiness in me. As the story proceeds and I start gaining confidence, the frame starts to fill up,” Tara says.

The video also features fellow indie artist Perp as one of Tara’s friends, who comforts her. Growing close ever since they enrolled at music school in 2015, Tara counts Perp as one of her best friends who has also been a past flatmate and collaborator on the single “Weatherman” released in 2023. “She’s hilarious and it was so much fun having her on the shoot. All the scenes on the dining table where I’m laughing hysterically was all real because of the loud, craziness that ensues whenever we’re together,” Tara says.

In addition to prepping the release of “Glad You Came Along,” Tara has spent time upskilling in terms of production, songwriting and guitar playing. She adds, “I feel like its taken me a while but I finally feel like I have some direction and momentum about my sound and the themes I would like to explore in my music. I’ve been working on some music for an EP that I’m excited about and am hoping to release this year along with further developing my live set.”

Watch Tiana Tara’s ‘Glad You Came Along’ video below.