Sullivan says the album is “about understanding that we all have a story, and that story is important, and it’s OK for you to tell it exactly the way it is.” The Philly native who grew up singing in church has on a cream-colored sweater and a matching leather newsboy cap like the one Mary J. “And there’s so many layers to her singing - the tone and the execution, yes, but also the pain.” “Jazmine’s music is so honest, so obviously from a real place,” H.E.R. H.E.R., who recently joined Sullivan for an NPR Tiny Desk Concert that drew more than a million views in its first three days on YouTube, says “Heaux Tales” argues that “there is no mold of what a woman should be, which is something that’s not preached on enough.”
(Lennox also delivers the album’s most memorable testimonial, describing the effect of sex so good it “spoke life into me - invigoration, blessings, soul.”) in “ Girl Like Me,” a guitar-driven number in which Sullivan sings about creating a Tinder profile after being dumped, and Ari Lennox in “ On It,” a delightfully frank slow jam demanding physical satisfaction. Two more of Sullivan’s inheritors turn up for duets on “Heaux Tales”: H.E.R. The album also arrives in the midst of what feels like a Jazmine Sullivan moment: Late last year, Megan Thee Stallion prominently sampled Sullivan’s decade-old “Holding You Down (Goin’ in Circles)” for a track on her hit debut, while younger R&B stars such as Summer Walker and Ella Mai have broken out with music that shows the clear if quiet influence of her atmospheric sound and her piercing lyricism. Sullivan’s long-anticipated follow-up to 2015’s “Reality Show,” which earned three Grammy nominations, “Heaux Tales” is only the fourth LP since 2008 from an artist famous for taking her time even as streaming has greatly accelerated the music industry’s pace. But when people respond to my writing, to the emotion in my music, that means way more to me.” “If the run is super-duper-amazing, I’ll recognize that. “To be honest, when I do runs, it’s by accident - it’s a natural habit because I’ve been doing it for so long.” Sometimes, she says, she wonders if she oversings. “It’s not that big of a deal,” she replies in a video call from her home near Philadelphia. Eventually, Sullivan herself chimed in, posting a how-to video on Instagram that despite her good-faith effort only made the run sound more difficult.įour months later, Sullivan, 33, laughs when asked how gratified she is by all the admiration for her signature vocal acrobatics. Results ran the gamut from oh-that’s-cute to you- almost-had-it, but nobody could quite master the churchy riff. The viral undertaking had participants doing their best to nail an intricate vocal run from Sullivan’s 2017 single “ Insecure” in which the soul singer with a gospel background glides down the scale with seemingly effortless precision.
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In mid-September as COVID-19’s shutdown of live music hit the six-month mark - and as the wait for a new album by Jazmine Sullivan approached six years - hungry R&B fans took to social media for a crack at the #insecurechallenge. "Whatever valleys and dips that you've gone through in life, you deserve to have grace," says Jazmine Sullivan.
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