![]() ![]() Those same anxieties have some single people scared to even go out and meet people. Long distance relationships depicted on “Flights Booked” are more difficult than ever with virus fears and financial woes. There’s been a lot of heartbreak over the past two years. Perhaps Drake just wanted to try something new, but that urge dovetailed with the reopening of nightclubs and other venues after years of restrictions. Instead, we got arguably his most focused project ever, as he crooned about romantic woes on atmospheric house tracks like “Falling Back,” “Calling My Name,” and “Flights Booked.” Drake fans are used to getting his lovelorn moments through dreary, subcutaneous trap soul, but 40, Black Coffee, Gordo, and many more producers crafted a trancey soundscape that marked his most ambitious project yet. The project immediately broke Apple Music’s first-day streams record, even though it alienated a good amount of fans who were looking forward to rapping Drake or R&B Drake. ![]() Those experiencing heartache may feel a similar bond with Drake’s Honestly, Nevermind, which dropped four days before “Break My Soul,” sparking speculation about him surprise-dropping the album to not seem like a wave-rider. It’s not just that the glitzy synths and frenetic percussion is two-step ready, “Break My Soul” follows in the lineage of house classics with a powerful Black woman voice belting relatable lyrics that soothe the pressure points of distressed listeners, while offering them an all-encompassing mantra to cling to. Lines like “damn, they work me so damn hard” and “release ya trade, release the stress” sound like they could have been ripe for an acoustic blues song, but producers The-Dream and Tricky Stewart reawakened Robin S.’ dance anthem “Show Me Love” and crafted a frenzied composition for a new generation of listeners. We all need some kind of escape from the tumult.īeyoncé’s “Break My Soul” felt like a much-needed balm for weary fans when it dropped last Tuesday. We’re in a two-year-long COVID-19 pandemic that looks like it’s going to spur a recession, with inflation that former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers theorized could only be quelled by a five-percent jobless rate, which would mean “devastating joblessness for millions.” Tl dr version: things are rough out here. That decision came just a day after they loosened gun laws in the midst of a mass shooting epidemic. Wade, giving states the option to ban abortion. Last Friday, the Supreme Court repealed Roe vs. We’ve long clamored for artists to speak to the times, and while most of these insulated millionaires are unable to channel a Public Enemy and condemn the powers that be, their current messaging is the best they can do: “I hear your pain, I feel it in some ways, but let’s dance it away for now.” Many of us are eager to accept that, as there are plenty of things for us to be seeking a release from. Artists are adhering to the social zeitgeist, offering a danceable soundtrack to the world’s reopening while speaking to our collective social ordeal via Drake’s lovelorn lyrics and Beyoncé’s “you won’t break my soul” mantra. But now, multi-platinum artists are joining those playlists, making house music a hot-button discussion among mainstream audiences. Those in the know have already been in tune with artists like Kaytranada, Azealia Banks, Black Coffee, and many others who have been fusing house, electronic and hip-hop in intriguing ways. These acts culled from a lively scene of unheralded dance music creators, and they’re primed to take the sound to the top of the charts. Before that, the year kicked off with The Weeknd’s Dawn FM is an ’80s pop redux. ![]() To name a few: Drake went all the way house on Honestly, Nevermind, Beyonce’s “Break My Soul” is an affirming house track that’s an intriguing harbinger for her Renaissance Act 1 album, and IDK linked up with Kaytranda for Simple., an electronic-influenced EP. That advice might be permeating the industry like a game of telephone right now, because several of music’s biggest acts have rolled out uptempo music that’s setting the tone for a summer of dancing away the pain. You’re just supposed to make them feel better and make them feel good. ![]() Last April, Vince Staples divulged a conversation he had with SAINt JHN where he “learned that the listener is coming to you because they want you to give them a break away from normality.” Vince says SAINt JHN also told him: “‘ don’t have time to try to figure out what you’re trying to tell them. ![]()
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