“If you died tomorrow, I do not assume I’d cry, I gave you one too many nights” sings Jessie Reyez in “Mutual Friends,” a single off of her new album “Yessie,” launched on September 16. Brimmed with a lot of the gritty and uncooked R&B and soul sounds Reyez is thought for, the 11-track album is her second studio album and fourth venture. In “Yessie,” the Grammy-nominated performer mesmerizes together with her distinctive, raspy voice whereas providing recent sounds, hopeful lyrics, and dance vibes.
“I’m at all times simply speaking about my life and what I am going by means of, however I’m positively in a special area.”
These expressions of pleasure amid heart-wrenching tracks replicate the journey Reyez has undertaken in her personal private life. “I’m at all times simply speaking about my life and what I am going by means of, however I’m positively in a special area,” Reyez says in an interview with POPSUGAR, “I’ve simply wished to develop, you realize? And heal. So I’ve been making extra of an effort to heal myself and to make my psychological and bodily well being a precedence.” The album is a musical journey that begins with the down-to-earth manifesto “Mood” the place Reyez declares, “I discovered to like the rain, it is all the identical, nonetheless obtained a smile on my face,” earlier than diving into emotional tracks with the sort of honest lyrics that really feel like too-much-too-real confessionals (“I like each flaw I see, that is all new” she sings in “Forever” ft. 6lack). “Queen St W” has a catchy tune with daring lyrics that remember the singer whereas leaning in on the “tóxica” (poisonous) vibes. In it, she sings, “the b***hes you need, need me” whereas telling her previous lover that he made a monster.
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When requested if she identifies as “la tóxica” —a type of on-line quip amongst Latinx millennials and Gen Zers the place they poke enjoyable at poisonous love traits (i.e. jealousy)— she says she as soon as did establish with it however she’s modified. “It’s good to have a little bit little bit of poisonous in there too,” she says, nonetheless, “Because I do not assume it is best to preserve choosing a scab that you just’re attempting to concurrently heal.” Reyez is a Colombian-Canadian artist who’s consistently displaying pleasure for her metropolis of Toronto, whether or not that be collaborating with its different stars like Daniel Caesar or celebrating what she known as the town’s “renaissance in music.” And on this album, she additionally exalts her Colombian roots with a distinguished pattern of “Los caminos de la vida” (“the walks of life”) by the band Los Diablitos in “Mood”—the album’s first monitor. The authentic is a vallenato traditional of Colombian music that is in style throughout Latin America, the place the group sings “the walks of life usually are not what I assumed.” Reyez needed to pull some strings when clearing the pattern. Just a day earlier than she needed to flip within the album to FMLY/Island Records, she lastly determined to name up her good friend, Colombian music artist big Carlos Vives, for assist. She shares how he moved mountains to make it occur.
“It’s so poetic, you realize, for what Carlos Vives and his music imply to me, and for what that music means to me, and what that pattern means to me and my heritage and my roots.”
“It’s so poetic, you realize, for what Carlos Vives and his music imply to me, and for what that music means to me, and what that pattern means to me and my heritage and my roots,” she says.
The second half of the album contains the one “Mutual Friends” and the dance-pop “Tito’s” the place she sings in Spanglish. In “Only One,” the newest single off “Yessie,” Reyez sings over a melodic funky beat, inviting love into her life: “I do not need somebody who’s for everyone, I simply wanna be your just one.” The monitor produced by Grammy-nominated producer Rykeyz (he is produced for the likes of Demi Lovato, H.E.R.), is the sort of music that may seize the radio waves.
And Reyez is poised for a takeover. With her sound, Reyez has already captivated the music business and attracted tens of millions of followers, getting large props from the likes of Eminem, who featured her not as soon as however twice in his 2018 album, “Kamikaze.” She additionally obtained the Beyoncé cosign with a function on “Black is King,” completely expressing a villain’s essence in “Scar.” In 2020, when she was set to tour with Billie Eilish, all the things needed to come to a halt due to COVID-19. Yet one other type of alignment occurred in her profession with the discharge of her first studio album “Before Love Came to Kill Us,” one which had a deal with grief in a time when the world was in deep mourning.
This new album appears like her creative rise from these ashes. Right because the world can also be nonetheless making sense of the previous two years, Reyez stays true to the connection and betrayal tracks which can be beloved by her followers. Towards the tip of the album, within the punk-fused “Break Me Down,” her highly effective voice shines as she sings, “Wasn’t wholesome however rattling it was enjoyable, I’m executed losing time being broken-hearted once you’re all I wished.”
For Reyez, displaying this transition again into issues of affection and romance was pivotal, at the same time as she’s centered on self-love. “You cannot self-love too near the solar as a result of then you find yourself turning into too self-sufficient and also you overlook that ‘oh wait’, for partnerships or for relationships with household or mates, you continue to need to be acutely aware,” she explains, including that she stays grounded in household, meditation and prayer. “The key’s to search out stability, so proper now I’m discovering stability with the album. This sort of spiral journey, you realize, proper now I’m personally [there].”
“The course of did not change as a result of it is me speaking about my life,” she says, “But I feel I modified, like I’m making extra of an effort to provide the grace that I’d consistently give different individuals to myself for as soon as.”
“Yessie” is definitely a mirrored image of this duality with the lyrics and sonically too. Reyez’s sound is evolving with pop singles which can be reaching for stardom, but she’s very a lot nonetheless planted on the earth, and in her fact. “The course of did not change as a result of it is me speaking about my life,” she says, “But I feel I modified, like I’m making extra of an effort to provide the grace that I’d consistently give different individuals to myself for as soon as.”
