| My grandfather is a very straightforward guy... The best advice he ever gave me is two words, literally. He said, 'F*** everybody.' | |  |  | | Eyes of the world: Burna Boy at Glastonbury, June 25, 2022. | | (Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage/Getty Images) | | | | quote of the day | | | rantnrave:// | It's Friday
And here's some career advice from Bose Ugulu, whose son Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, more familiarly known as BURNA BOY, releases his sixth album, LOVE, DAMINI, today. "We took the stairs," Bose Ugulu, who serves as her son's "momager," says. "We didn't do any elevators. We spent a lot of time and money planning to go around the world... There is no way we're performing 16,000- to 20,000-capacity venues when we didn't start with 3,000." With the caveat that a 3,000-cap venue is actually a pretty big venue, Burna Boy's story is one of determined, calculated (in the good way), slow world conquest, which the Afrobeats star has pursued with the goal of building "a bridge between all Black people in all parts of the world through the music and performance. Music is the No. 1 messenger." "Love, Damini," which was originally intended to come out a week ago, on Burna Boy's 31st birthday, follows a year in which he became the first African performer to headline the Hollywood Bowl and then, in April, the first Nigerian to headline Madison Square Garden, which he sold out. The music, as the New York Times' Jon Pareles writes in his "Love, Damini" review, "connects Afrobeats to its worldwide kin: R&B, Jamaican dancehall, reggaeton, Congolese rumba, hip-hop and more," with the help of plentiful polyrhythms and "a suave composure that can hint at easy assurance or a melancholy reticence." Album #6 leans more toward the melancholy reticence. "I be common person," he tells us in the chorus of one song. Even within the boozy pop lilt of "It's Plenty," Burna Boy wants the object of his affection to know, "I don't know how to show you my love without f***ing up." It's a personal, reflective album, he told Billboard's Heran Mamo, which suits his preferred relationship with his art. He has his momager and his sister, who's also part of his team, to handle his business while he pursues music as a kind of therapy: "That's why we have arguments when it's time to release stuff, because I just want to do what I want to do. And sometimes what I want to do is not the best thing for business." Business is good nonetheless. The guest list on "Love, Damini" includes J Balvin, Khalid, Kehlani, Popcaan and Ed Sheeran, and the album begins and ends with the voices of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. But there's never any mistaking whose sound and whose album it is.
Also today: new music from Laura Veirs, Brent Faiyaz (ft. Drake, Alicia Keys, Raphael Saadiq and more), Westside Gunn, Wu-Lu, Naomi Raine (of Maverick City Music), SSGKobe, B.o.B., Apollo Brown, Kota the Friend, Neil Young & Crazy Horse (a previously unreleased 2001 album), Wet, Party Dozen, Metric, James Bay, aespa, Flo, Vanity Rose, Tyshawn Sorey, Plínio Fernandes, Journey, Katy J Pearson, Rae Morris, Spiral Stairs, Wormrot, Vomit Forth, Ken Car$on, Tasman Keith, Tye Tribbett, Caterina Barbieri, Maxim Mental (Max Bemis of Say Anything), Viagr* Boys, End It, Quinton Brock, Anna Butterss, rei brown, Try the Pie, Delicate Steve, Mush, Vicki Burns, Kimberly Kelly and the Deslondes.
Etc Etc Etc
Something helpful the STRANGER THINGS sync hits "RUNNING UP THAT HILL" and "MASTER OF PUPPETS" have in common besides their mid-'80s vintage: The artists own the masters... How many ears must one man have before he can hear the most recent recording of BOB DYLAN's "BLOWIN' IN THE WIND"? Two ears, plus around $1.8 million, based on the price the Dylan / T BONE BURNETT high-fidelity edition-of-one platter fetched Thursday at CHRISTIE'S, including commissions... GUNNA, like YOUNG THUG before him, has been denied bond in the racketeering case the two rappers and several others are facing in Atlanta. They've both been in jail since early May. "Gunna deserves better from our justice system," one of his lawyers told Billboard... 12 books, none of them music books, that changed how TED GIOIA hears music.
| | - Matty Karas (@troubledoll), curator | |
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