WiSH lady band
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The four-member pop lady band W.i.S.H. (World Inka Stage Hai), is again with their newest single ‘Remedy’, which touches on poisonous relationships, pink flags and detoxing, via an “upbeat declaration of freedom.”

Launched in March 2024 by composer & producer Mikey McCleary in affiliation with Sony Music India, this Mumbai-based band creatively conveys the significance of reclaiming one’s narratives and self-worth in a technology of difficult relationships. 

W.i.S.H. band members embrace Ri (Riya Duggal), Sim (Simran Duggal), Zo (Zoe Siddharth) and Suchi (Suchita Shirke). Chatting with The Hindu, the W.i.S.H. ladies who have been in Bengaluru lately, talk about the inspiration behind their new tune.

“With ‘Remedy’, what we have been actually in a position to do was draw on our experiences. We felt we have been in a position to relate to what the tune needed to convey, and we hope so will our listeners,” says Sim. The band works collaboratively by brainstorming and incorporating everybody’s concepts. “One thing about it being a breakup tune, about letting go and transferring on, in addition to the music simply felt proper,” she provides. 

WiSH lady band
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W.i.S.H. is India’s first lady group in virtually 20 years, making them distinctive within the Indian music trade in the present day. “From the minute we debuted, we already knew the viewers was there,” says Ri. With the assist they obtained from the start, they realised that many have been glad to lastly expertise a pop lady band in an Indian setting, full with numerous cultural parts. 

“Our main purpose is to fill that hole and produce recent dance music, with multilingual twists,” says Ri. Discussing future collaborations, Suchi expressed her curiosity in Afro and Spanish music. “One thing about the way in which Spanish sounds…Hindi and Spanish go very well collectively,” provides Sim. The band hopes they’ve kickstarted a brand new style within the nation — one that’s neither Bollywood nor indie. 

Combining numerous cultural parts and making a context for his or her music includes an intensive inventive course of. For the W.i.S.H. ladies, every tune is completely different therefore they “don’t observe a method”. At occasions, they write over a beat urged by their producer Mikey McCleary. Making an attempt to “degree up” the energies of their earlier songs, ‘Lazeez’ and ‘Galti’, McCleary added numerous “quirky parts just like the graveyard of recollections” and experimentative costumes of their music video. 

With altering codecs of listening to music and quick variations of ‘stylish’ songs on social media, W.i.S.H. feels assured that their music is not going to be misplaced within the short-lived algorithm.

“We don’t like making music for the traits, we don’t take into consideration what’s going to make it successful,” says Zo. The band goals to search out the correct steadiness between making music for the love of it and creating their very own signature sound via music and dance. “The factor about good music is that it transcends time,” says Suchi. 

Hinting at their subsequent launch, the women say their subsequent tune is a “full 180 diploma shift” from what the band has delivered beforehand.

Remedy is now out on all streaming platforms