“Queen & Slim,” the film, traffics in sudden tragedy and symbolic terror as it portrays the violence of self-defense and self-awareness in stark, painful terms. It deserves an equally audacious…
That he and Motown have been able to snag new music from several au courant hit-makers says something about Blood Orange’s clout and the label’s renewed dedication to fresh hip-hop and nu-soul, as well as the newsy necessity of the film itself.update the punchy, stammering, still new “Ride or Die” to include VickeeLo and a wider soundscape for something moodily operatic, retro-phonic.
Nigerian singer and songwriter Burna Boy has been around for a minute, since 2013 and his debut studio album, “L.I.F.E “ Buteven though Burna won Best International Act at the 2019 BET Awards, his horny melodies and ragged raps have been lost in the pop ozone. The new “My Money, My Baby” has up-tempo tap dancing on an African highlife track filled with angular, Fela-esque brass and reed blasts and a theatrical finale worthy of a dynamic film’s soundscape.
That Blood Orange himself maintains that same stewing sensibility with his lone contribution to the released soundtrack is fascinating. Was it planned? Were these moods discussed? “Runnin’ Away” with Ian Isiah and Jason Arce is sparsely arranged theatrical jazz rich with haunting piano and blaring squiggly saxophone — “Alladin Sane” in a modern soul setting.
One track that had to have been talked out is the film’s theme song, “Queen & Slim.
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