The album is an attempt, conscious or unconscious, to recalibrate the way black women and art have been pejoratively interlaced.
Read MoreThe resulting candor is a measure of how layered and arresting women’s experiences can be for those songwriters brave enough to remain unflinching.
Read MoreLetting things go is synonymous with grace and release. But there’s another form of release, raw and liberating, that can be found in anger.
Read More“Geniuses” rely on a voracious public ready to forgive the previous offense, as long as the coming one even is more deliciously shocking.
Read MoreThese songs remind me what troubled times make easy to forget: that womanhood is a language that is often thankless, but always, always worth it.
Read MoreAs Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino has come along, the question isn’t how we got here, but rather: how didn’t we get here sooner?
Read MoreI worked through Haines’ songs, as she patched together instances of her life with her father, and I also found myself, inexorably, doing the same.
Read MoreNapster is the catalyst which was needed to spearhead the movement. But sadly, it is also the ship that had to sink so that others learned how not to approach these critical issues.
Read MoreHow do you look at your own suffering and healing, when the artists who have told you to hope and hold on end their own lives?
Read MoreEvidently, an artist has to make ends meet, and that sometimes means more practical decision-making. But this should never distract from the idea that art should not be corporatized. Rosy-colored, right? Hear me out.
Read MoreI cannot help but wonder whether it could have made a difference to know that no one was judging her, that it was okay to fall, because a net of worldwide grace and understanding would have cushioned her.
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