Live

Sound DNA

• Soul & Funk
• Neo-Soul

• velvety
• tender
• soulful

About

Erykah Badu went a long way toward justifying the quick release of <i>Live</i> only months after her debut album <i>Baduizm</i>’s success with just one song. She lifted the album into the highest tier of in-concert soul recording by trotting out the new “Tyrone,” a languid sound that she electrified by reading the riot act to a boyfriend most politely described as “errant.” The audience’s women sound nearly as delighted as those a generation earlier had when Marvin Gaye wailed “Distant Lover” on his own <i>Live</i>. This set also goes a long way toward amplifying Badu’s concerns, not only with a cover of “favorite singer” Chaka Khan’s “Stay,” but with public wrestling with her doubts and loneliness: Before unveiling another previously unrecorded number, “Ye Yo,” she reminds the audience (and herself) that “I’m a person and I represent you.”

via Apple Music

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