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You know you're socially challenged when Delores says this in Westworld and you think to yourself "hmm thats good advice i should do that.”

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I remixed Usher’s No Limit in the vein of Blonde by Frank Ocean. Some notes on my process:

It’s been a couple of months since Frank Ocean released Blonde and I still can’t stop listening to it. I’m obsessed with the minimalism and restraint and the subtle instrumentation. This thing would happen the first few times I played the record where Frank's voice would interact with a chord change in a way that hit me right in the gut on a visceral level. It didn’t have anything to do with lyrical content or with the sound design. And It happened all over that album. I think the first few times I listened through to Blonde I could only really experience it like that. 

I wanted to create moments like that in my songwriting, and because I’ve always been interested in re-contextualizing existing music (and also because I don’t have access to any better vocalists than Usher, if we’re being honest) I decided to give it a try with a re-imagining of No Limit. Now, this isn’t meant to be a 1:1 stylistic recreation of Blonde. Consider Blonde the primary influence and the stylistic starting point, but the ultimate goal was to evoke the same kind of feeling.  I’d love to hear what you think about it.