Mapei - Don't Say Hello

〈Verse〉
I was alone by the bar on a Sunday
My week has been just like hell
My 9 to 5 gonna quit that shit someday
Oh, I got a story to tell
I just got paid, was about to brag
Then I saw this man and then he said hello
And all his charm nothing I really have
But he made me feel so damn beautiful
I said wait, let me visit the ladies
He said please don't go
And when I came back he was nowhere to be found
My purse and all my money was gone

〈Chorus〉
Don't say hello hello hello
If you're gonna steal my heart and go
I'd rather be alone alone alone
Don't say hello hello
Don't say hello hello

〈Verse〉
Ok, so I was high on a Monday
High off life and high off love
Work at the supermarket and I was so late ooo
Because I was still drunk
And there he was this tall young man
Should I call the cops or should
I let him go
But I went up to him and I said
Baby, I'll quit my job if you take me home
All of a sudden this girl came in with my
Green Louis Vuitton
Hey, that's my purse and you are thief
Then he act like he ain't know us at all
〈Chorus〉
Don't say hello hello hello
If you gonna steal my heart and go
I'd rather be alone alone alone
Don't say hello hello

Don't say hello hello hello
If you're gonna steal my heart and go
I'd rather be alone alone alone
Don't say hello hello

Don't say hello hello hello
If you're gonna steal my heart and go
I'd rather be alone alone alone
Don't say hello hello

Don't say hello hello

A true-blue musical chameleon, Mapei brings palpable soul and sonic versatility to a world where genre matters less and less. The Stockholm native soaks up influences – from hip-hop to dance-pop and Swedish club to gospel – and the results feel organic, timeless and positively exuberant. It’s music of experience – well-traveled and alive.

Born in Rhode Island, Mapei spent her early years in Providence in a hippie household where music was a constant. “I did my own thing as soon I could,” she says. “I was already performing in grade school and recording tapes of my own music. Let’s just say I was too soulful for music class.”

With a natural flair for both R&B and rapping, Mapei ended up in Sweden – a far different musical climate with a penchant for club music, skewed pop and European folk. And just like her early years, she embraced these new styles, learning their structures, emotions and how to elicit a genuine reaction from listeners with new sounds.

Mapei’s new single, “Don’t Wait,” is a product of exposure to these divergent worlds. The track, co-written and produced with pop impresario Magnus Lidehäll, is a musical culmination of her travels and life to this point.

“It’s a dedication to friends and lovers that have been there for me through thick and thin,” Mapei explains. “No one should be taken for granted through and ups-and-downs of a relationship. I wanted it to feel like a 21st-century gospel or doo-wop song – something for my beautiful friends that stuck around.”