66. Jazmine Sullivan, Lost One
You can love a thing—just as you can love a person—with whom you fundamentally disagree. I love this song. But in the grip of a desperate, reckless heartbreak, the singer begs her unrecoverable beloved not to love anyone else. She knows it’s too much, that asking a person not to love is an unnatural enshacklement, a leap too far, no matter how devastated one may be. She knows that she’s been nothing short of a disaster. And she weaves close harmonies like the tines of a fine comb, converting her yearning and aching sadness into elegant, naked beauty.
Jazmine Sulllivan, "Lost One," written by Jazmine Sullivan & Dave Watson, 2020.
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Thank you...we've had so much rain (without lightning!) that I lost internet and satellite. Thankfully, I have this library that comforts and soothes and engages and entertains. Again, the genre here, is new to me; closest I could come, I think, is "easy blues"? Keep them coming, I'm trying and enjoying the engagement.