There’s no doubt this album has highlighted huge factors in the music industry as well as inspiring black women / LGBT+ and women in general. As Adele once said when she won her Grammy Album of the Year to Beyonce in 2017, when the monumental Lemonade album came out, - “the way you make my black friends feel is empowering and you make them stand up for themselves” - this greatly sums up what these two women are doing and When I get home is a perfect representative of where art/fashion is going with music.
Hip Hop, R&B, Rap artists are taking their music videos to new heights and has begun a new type of “MTV generation” making music videos extremely important again. Fashion music is being seen in videos now from artists to A$AP Rocky, Travis Scott, SZA and Solange making everything so visually appealing.
Solange has released a visual album, like Beyonce, but really showing a different side of the artist and showing that black women can embrace their heritage and feel confident in using their creative capabilities that may not be unleashed yet therefore inspiring generations. Solange displays this in her interludes in all her albums involving strong words from black women encouraging assurance, beauty and reaching for your dreams which a lot of girls relating to Solange and the genres mentioned, inspiration. It’s working. We now see so much involvement and beautiful creativity online from great women celebrating themselves.
“ It's not about the physical manifestation of sex. Now we deal with the freak’n. But that's in volume two! First, I'm tryna get the woman to understand the dynamic power and the spiritual energy. Do you realize how magnificent you are? The god that created you is a divine architect that created the moon, the sun, the stars, Jupiter, Mars, Pluto, Venus. We are not only sexual beings, we are the walking embodiment of god consciousness” - We Deal With The Freak’n.
When I get home contains many musical influences that are shown clearly from Hip Hop/ Trap in Almeda, Soul in Way To The Show , Reggae in Binz, Rap in My Skin My Logo to Funk in Stay Flo, all perfectly showing that you can do it all and develop feelings of being sexy, feeling hard, feminine, masculine and the feeling of sadness.
The art direction of the visual aspects are simple yet beautiful, like her bare and raw voice recorded on the whole thing, which all mix well in the mellow tapestry shes created. The videos focus on unique women mainly in suits or the completely opposite, in thigh high boots and bras. This screams at me “YOU CAN DO BOTH” and not fit into one box which her interlude Can I Hold The Mic.
“ I can't be a singular expression of myself, there's too many parts, too many spaces, too many manifestations, too many lines, too many curves, too many troubles, too many journeys, too many mountains, too many rivers, so many” - Can I Hold The Mic
To end this on a cheesy note, the album has me saying, When I Get Home imma listen to this god damn album.
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