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# Tanukichan - Don't Give Up
- URL: https://www.glamglare.com/music/tanukichan-dont-give-up/
- Published: 2022-11-18T12:19:35.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-18T12:19:35.000Z
- Author: Oliver Bouchard
- Tags: Music, Song Pick of the Day, #wordpress, #Import 2024-07-26 07:44

After [Black Belt Eagle Scout](https://wp.glamglare.com/music/2022/10/15/black-belt-eagle-scout-dont-give-up/?ref=glamglare.com) a month ago, Oakland, CA musician Hannah van Loon aka [**Tanukichan**](https://glamglare.com/artist/tanukichan?ref=glamglare.com) has another shoegaze-y life encouragement for you. “Don’t Give Up” is a hard-hitting 1:51 song about pulling yourself out of a mental swamp in a tough but effective way. Hannah recalls:

> This song is about feeling I haven’t done anything with my life, but also knowing that I’ve accomplished a lot and it’s only getting better. I started writing the lyrics when I was on tour opening for the Drums after my first album came out. We were playing sold out shows in front of hundreds of people, but I knew it could change in an instant. I felt like I hit rock bottom emotionally, I wasn’t ready for the road and it killed me. I felt so disconnected from the band even though they were my backbone and were making it happen. The only thing that really helps me at that point is feeling like I can just let everything go, and we all die. Just accepting the fact that I can’t control anything and that in the end it doesn’t matter. We will all disappear. 

She continues:

> I wrote the chorus years later when I was finishing a bunch of the songs. I didn’t want it to be depressing, even though that’s where it came from. It came from giving up but I wanted to keep going. I wanted it to mean something moving on from the negative and I came up with a ridiculously positive chorus. Don’t give up now you know there’s another day, just know you’re going to get to a better place, a better place meaning a better place in life, or “heaven,” just nothingness where all your worries are gone. 

“Don’t Give Up” is on Tanukichan’s upcoming album “[Gizmo](https://glamglare.com/album/tanukichan-gizmo?ref=glamglare.com),” out on March 3, 2023, via Company Records. Listen to our Song Pick of the Day below on Bandcamp or Spotify:

(Photo: Brendan Nakahara)