seeing black women like kelela, fka twigs, ikeda, kelsey lu, pinkpantheress, chxrry, cannelle, rochelle jordan, etc taking the spotlight as genre benders/innovators this year is so satisfying and needed
@catgirlprostate While I do understand that labels are important for some people, labeling everyone and everything feels counter productive to the queer experience imo
It’s crazy how she’s never in the conversation of electronic music right now like this whole album isn’t one of the most beautifully made pieces of work combining strings and synths while playing into the genres where electronic music found its roots in
Tinashe is in a unique position in pop music - perpetually fringe but eternally plagiarised, thus acutely aware of how to play the game. When to play straight and when to subvert. And she knows the imitators possess neither the agency nor range. Her new video says all that + more
Justine Skye, Chxrry, Natanya, Bayli, Tinashe, Jae Stephens, Essosa, Leigh-Anne, Ravyn Lenae, RM47 and Rochelle Jordan coming to revive the Black pop scene fr.