When we got neo-soul, we got this really personal thing. I just can’t tell you how important that was at the time. I grew up in a city called Bristol [England], more specifically in a seaside town outside of Bristol that at the time was a village. I was one of very few people of color in the area. In that isolation, you have to reach for something to make that distance feel less severe, and for me, music was what I searched for.
Do you know what I really noticed whencame out? Everyone that sang would sing “The Way” like they were going to the gym, like it was a dissertation on how to sing. Textual range is a thing that I don’t think we get as much of, and Jill said, “Hey, I’ve got infinite parts of my voice, and you’re gonna hear all of them.”was inspired by the tenderness of “The Way.” In my “Starlight” video, we’re supposed to be all just loving love. I love it. I’m trying to embody that. It was pure romanticism.
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