I have watched perfectly normal people turn into absolute assholes the second a comment box opens. I’ve done my own version too and typed something sharper than I would ever say with another person standing three feet away. The screen makes that distance dangerously easy. A whole life gets flattened into a profile photo and suddenly empathy feels optional. TaniA Kyllikki’s ‘HUMAN’ came from that frustration with online hostility and asks us to remember the obvious thing we keep forgetting. A person is still sitting on the other side.
Her husband and longtime producer Rynellton gives ‘HUMAN’ a deep-house pulse while TaniA layers gospel-soul vocals over it so the message keeps moving without slipping into lecture territory. The electronic beat nudges forward while her harmonies bring warmth into the track. TaniA has said she wanted the production to move people physically while the vocal felt comforting and that intention comes through clearly. The questions get room to breathe while the rhythm keeps them moving.
She opens with “Human / that’s what we are / Made up of many races / All different faces / Trying to live out our lives.” It is almost absurd how basic that reminder sounds until you spend five minutes reading people talk to strangers online where everybody becomes a category fast. TaniA drags the focus back to the person underneath it and starts from the one thing nobody can argue away. We are all trying to get through a life that feels enormous from inside our own head. That matters when somebody’s entire existence has been reduced to the one opinion they posted that made you angry.
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Then she asks for the harder part with “Let’s learn to love each other / Respect and understand each other.” Loving humanity in theory is easy but understanding the person who just pissed you off is where the assignment gets ugly. I can talk about compassion all day when nobody is testing mine because then respect gets considerably harder once somebody says something that makes you want to close the laptop and scream into a pillow. TaniA keeps pulling the idea away from slogans and toward actual behavior because understanding somebody requires more than waiting for your turn to tell them why they are wrong.
A few lines later she raises the stakes with “There needs to come a day / We all stand up for change, change.” That pushes the song past simply asking people to be nicer because now she wants something to move. Recognizing another person’s humanity is the starting point and eventually that recognition has to affect how we treat people when there is something at stake. “Change” is a huge word to drop into a song this direct, but TaniA leaves it broad enough that the listener has to decide what standing up actually looks like in their own life.
Urgency builds when she gets to “No more division / No broken confusion / Let’s break the dysfunctional.” She is naming the cycle now instead of simply asking people to love one another. Division becomes something learned and repeated until dysfunctional behavior starts feeling normal. That is probably why “Come together and pray / God help us all / Please make a way oh” feels less like a sermon than exhaustion. She has already asked people to listen better so by that point the plea sounds like somebody staring at the mess and admitting good intentions clearly have not been enough.
The chorus is where ‘HUMAN’ gets smartest. “What does it mean to be human / What does it mean for you and for me / To be human / How can we live in harmony.” TaniA leaves the central idea hanging as a question. She has said the questions were deliberate and meant to make listeners think for themselves. I like that choice because people shut down fast when they feel preached at. Asking “what does it mean for you and for me” puts the responsibility back on the individual without telling them what answer to repeat.
Then she makes the question even more uncomfortable with “What have we learnt from being here / Can we all agree / To be human.” “Agree” is doing a hell of a lot of work. Nobody is going to agree about everything and we have several billion daily reminders of that. TaniA brings the standard back to remembering the person before deciding their opinion makes them an idiot and expecting the same courtesy in return. That sounds embarrassingly simple until somebody gives you a reason to fail the test.
Verse two tightens the standard with “Humble / Is how we should be / Through our existence / There’s no major difference / We’re created equally.” Humility looks beautiful on paper but practicing it while you are convinced you are right is considerably harder. Every platform gives us space to perform certainty and very few reward the person who says maybe I should listen first. TaniA ties humility to equality here and that connection makes sense. If everybody’s humanity carries the same value then winning the argument does not suddenly make yours worth more.
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She follows that with “Let’s make a life to be proud of / Having no judgement / And no shame / Lifting each other up / And turning the night / Into day.” “No judgement” is a massive standard for actual human beings and most of us probably break it before breakfast. The lyric works because it points toward the version of ourselves we claim we want to be. Shame makes people disappear into themselves while lifting somebody up requires enough attention to notice they are struggling in the first place. By the time TaniA reaches “turning the night into day” the song has moved from diagnosing the problem toward imagining what better treatment could feel like.
When the chorus returns the questions carry more weight because the second verse has filled in pieces of a possible answer. Humility and equality now sit behind “What does it mean to be human” and turn the question into a practical standard she wants us to live by. TaniA still refuses to finish the thought for us because whatever answer matters has to survive outside the song.
‘HUMAN’ started as a Facebook post after TaniA found herself overwhelmed by the hostility she was seeing online. She reread the words and heard a song in them and then brought the idea to her husband and longtime producer Rynellton while they were working in their bedroom studio. The two built the track around his techno-house foundation and her gospel-soul vocal arrangements. TaniA is a Berkshire singer-songwriter working independently through Awe Inspiring Records and ‘HUMAN’ now points toward her second album ‘FREE-SPIRITED,’ planned for 2027.
Once ‘HUMAN’ ends the internet will keep being the internet. Somebody will still type something vicious from behind a profile picture and somebody else will fire back. ‘HUMAN’ makes the interruption count by putting a face back behind the words. I forget that sometimes. TaniA turns the beat up and puts the human being back in the fucking room.
