Jamila Woods’ most recent release LEGACY! LEGACY! was a concept album, of sorts, with each track highlighting an artist of color who inspired the Chicago R&B artist. Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Frida Kahlo, and many more were the subjects of songs from the album. Today, Woods has released a new song written under that same premise, this time inspired by the late Toni M...(展开全部) Jamila Woods’ most recent release LEGACY! LEGACY! was a concept album, of sorts, with each track highlighting an artist of color who inspired the Chicago R&B artist. Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Frida Kahlo, and many more were the subjects of songs from the album. Today, Woods has released a new song written under that same premise, this time inspired by the late Toni Morrison. “SULA (Paperback)” is based on Morrison’s 1974 novel of the same name, and honors both the author and her literary characters. In a press release, Jamila Woods stated: Sula was the first Toni Morisson novel I ever read and it inspired the first chapbook of poems I ever wrote. The novel shows the evolution of a friendship between two Black women and how they choose to navigate society's strict gender roles and rules of respectability. On Sula, Toni Morrison wrote, “Living totally by the law and surrendering totally to it without questioning anything sometimes makes it impossible to know anything about yourself.” Returning to the story several years later, it gave me permission to reject confining ideas about my identity designed to shrink my spirit. It reminded me to embrace my tenderness, my sensitivities, my ways of being in my body. This song is a mantra to allow myself space to experience my gender, love, intimacy, and sexuality on my own terms.
2 有用 Zewer 2020-08-19 16:31:16
贾米拉的音乐一贯如此,在你酝酿许久终于哭断情肠后才留意查了下歌词,发现人家是写了段黑人女性的文学感悟录,终究还是听众俗了配不上不是。
0 有用 胩柔 2020-08-11 08:17:58
chill song
1 有用 Yemanchu 2020-09-19 05:26:20
更喜欢hardcover
0 有用 銀古 2020-09-05 11:22:55
You’re the best.
0 有用 Keme 2020-12-28 01:10:57
Jamila延续了低吟浅唱的方式和轻松的编曲,但本质上还是在传递更高层面的精神内涵。她作为一名不断探讨自己身份,社会价值和存在意义的歌手,在这首歌里,重复着“I’m better”, 提醒着我们和她自己,生命里有些东西是需要自己去探索寻找和定义,从而一点一点变成真实的自己。
0 有用 Florencase 2020-08-09 19:51:50
好美
0 有用 胩柔 2020-08-11 08:17:58
chill song
1 有用 Idionic 2022-01-16 10:15:21
快发专辑。2022.4.20 这首真的太喜欢了,封校已经一个多月的某天忽然翻出来单曲循环,只有听听仙乐才能缓解焦虑这样子,求快发专辑,快发专辑,快发专辑
0 有用 _kevvv 2020-08-10 14:32:48
literary poetic
0 有用 Keme 2020-12-28 01:10:57
Jamila延续了低吟浅唱的方式和轻松的编曲,但本质上还是在传递更高层面的精神内涵。她作为一名不断探讨自己身份,社会价值和存在意义的歌手,在这首歌里,重复着“I’m better”, 提醒着我们和她自己,生命里有些东西是需要自己去探索寻找和定义,从而一点一点变成真实的自己。