She’ll never be picture perfect Beyoncé…Free Music!!!
First, I have to just get it out there that I am not a fan. I only have a few Solange songs in my almost 10,000 song library. I have the following songs for the noted reasons (it’s sad that I feel I have to justify this):
“Don’t Fight the Feeling (featuring Papa Reu)” because it was on the The Fighting Temptations Soundtrack, which is otherwise a pretty decent soundtrack.
I also have a regular and a remix version of the song “Naive” because two artists of which I am actually a big fan are featured on the track (Beyoncé and Da Brat). I have the remix because it was on Beyoncé’s “Naughty Girl” Maxi Single.
I do respect Solange as an up and coming song writer. I do not know actually how much she contirbutes, but she has had her hand in some songs that I like a lot including, Kelly Rowland‘s “Simply Deep,” Beyoncé‘s “Get Me Bodied” and “Upgrade U,” and Destiny’s Child‘s (Kelly Rowland‘s) “Bad Habit.”
That being said, I am feeling the song “I Decided.” I like the old school feel of it, and, while it is not the most original song, it is a fresh contrast to much of what is currently playing on the radio. I am talking about the original version and not Part II, which I think is a lame attempt to get the song more airplay.
Since “I Decided” got my ears open, I wanted to learn more about the upcoming album and how true it would stay to this form. In my reading around, I found that, in addition to her official page, Solange is also hosting a blog.
I read through the blog to see what I could find out and found an unreleased song on Solange’s blog. I will listen to any free song once, but this one is actually worth the listen. The song is called F*@k The Industry (Signed Sincerely), and it is Solange‘s two cents on conforming to the industry standards. It is a play on Kanye‘s “Everything I Am,” and it even uses the music from the song. Both songs start out with the same line (I’ll never be picture perfect Beyoncé‘…), but it carries a whole different meaning when Solange sings it. She keeps it real on this song, and the song is a good statement about trying to be true to yourself. I like songs like this, about the industry and about music. I even have a playlist for such songs that I call Music Makes Me High.
You can download F*@k The Industry (Signed Sincerely) for free on this blog post to hear for yourself. Enjoy!
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