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Give Solange’s Album: A Seat at the Table a Listen

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I can’t say enough amazing things about Solnage’s Album A Seat at the Table. If you haven’t listen to it, you need to get on that ASAP. One of the most phenomenal things about R&B Soul music is that the message with in this genre can pull from such a wide range of emotions. This album is jam packed with not only amazing melodies but also, amazing messages that are extremely open to the listener’s interpretation. Each of the songs flows seamlessly into one another so, this is an album that is best listened to in order. A few of the songs include some interludes where people share their stories and their life experience about. As a young Black woman in America, I can honestly say that there are few things in this album that I needed to hear, one of my favorite messages can be heard in “Interlude: Tina Taught Me”.

One of the more popular songs on the album is “Cranes in the Sky”, and rightfully so. The instrumental portion alone is amazing. Then on top of that you get lyrics that so greatly signifies what it can feel like being a Black woman in America:

Fortunately, great music and a strong message is present in every song on this Album. I hope by now you’ve gone to Spotify and taken a listen to the it for yourself.

24k Magic

bruno-mars-xxiv-magic Bruno Mars has a new album, and to my surprise no one has really been talking about it. It’s no visual album, and it most certainly doesn’t comment on top hitting issues within America right now, but it still deserves its place in the spotlight. Honestly, 24k Magic is just a really fun, feel-good album. It has a great throwback R&B Soul sound to every song within the album and a lot of the songs are great to dance to or just bump to on your own. One of my favorite songs on the album is “Chunky”. It just has a super fun sound, and its extremely danceable, and just like the rest of the album, has a great throw back R&B Soul feel. In addition to the great melodies and killer beats there are tons of fun lyrics. Like in one of my other favorite songs on the album “Perm”, where the lyrics for the chorus are “throw some perm on your attitude…cause you gotta relax”. It’s one of those songs that you can’t listen to without smiling and bopping your head to. In addition to all of the dance music there are quite a few ballads on the album so there is little bit of something for everyone on it. This was the perfect album for Bruno Mars to come back with, and we, as decent human beings, should talking about it more.

Here’s the link to “Chunky”:

All of 24k Magic available on Spotify

William Singe

In today’s day and age covers are extremely common for popular songs. When concerned with popular music the cover can either be just as good as if not better then the original song. The thing that makes a great cover Is how creative the artist can get with it and put their own spin on it. William Singe is someone who does an amazing job with covers and putting his own R&B sound to all of his covers. Even some of the most unexpected songs like Taylor Swifts “Shake it Off”. In doing so, I find myself going to listen to some of his covers of popular music instead of going to the original song. Pretty much all of his covers have a great bass line and his vocal range is great, especially his use of the upper register. He also does quite a few covers where he will mix together older R&B songs with songs that are popular now. In his most recent cover with Alex Aiono where they mashed up “Black Beetles”, “Confessions” and “No problem” together. This makes for an overall fun song to listen to with a killer bass line and little bit of a throw back feel when confessions is brought into the mix.

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