Kelela wants her songs to feel as complex as real life

The FADER speaks to Kelela about genre and race, working with Oscar Scheller, and covering Incubus for her new Spotify Live Room sessions. Kelela’s songwriting process can be painstakingly slow. It doesn’t help that sometimes, not even she knows what she’s trying to say. “Oftentimes when I’m singing in gibberish over the instrumental, there are…

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20 Black pop girls to know right now

From France’s YSEULT to London’s Natanya, and more. Pictured: Theodora, Jae Stephens, YSEULT, Natanya   Black women in pop music is not anything new, but recently, we’ve noticed a host of new voices shaping and leaving their mark on the current landscape. We’re using that term, “pop,” loosely — ahead, in this list, these musicians…

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