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<blockquote data-quote="UPROXX" data-source="post: 62699" data-attributes="member: 81"><a href="https://uproxx.com/music/best-new-rb-songs-this-week-giveon-jessie-reyez-vedo/" target="_blank">Jessie Reyez</a> is back with the announcement of her new album Yessie out this fall. This comes with the release of her new single “Mutual Friend,” a sonically haunting track with vividly resentful lyrics that tell an immersive story: “Our mutual friend / Don’t know that you’re too self-serving / But I do and that’s why your words don’t mean sh*t,” she sings, and adds: “And guess what? / This heartbreak morphed into hate.”The video is as powerful as the song, depicting Reyez singing in a house and getting swept up into a visceral dance choreography. One scene captures the singer sitting on a couch surrounded by dying flowers — a heavily symbolic image that evokes the same intense emotions as the ballad does. The lyrics grow even more clever and razor-sharp as the song continues to build over the course of nearly four minutes: “And guess what / Your karma’s that you love me still,” she sings.Yessie follows the eclectic 2020 LP <a href="https://uproxx.com/music/jessie-reyez-before-love-came-to-kill-us-review/" target="_blank">Before Love Came To Kill Us</a>, which soon after became extended as <a href="https://uproxx.com/pop/jessie-reyez-before-love-came-to-kill-us-deluxe-edition/" target="_blank">a surprise deluxe album</a> that features verses from A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Rico Nasty, and more.Watch the stunning video for “Mutual Friend” above.Yessie is out 9/9 via FMLY/Island Records.<a href="https://uproxx.com/music/jessie-reyez-yessie-mutual-friend/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="UPROXX, post: 62699, member: 81"] [URL='https://uproxx.com/music/best-new-rb-songs-this-week-giveon-jessie-reyez-vedo/']Jessie Reyez[/URL] is back with the announcement of her new album [I]Yessie[/I] out this fall. This comes with the release of her new single “Mutual Friend,” a sonically haunting track with vividly resentful lyrics that tell an immersive story: “Our mutual friend / Don’t know that you’re too self-serving / But I do and that’s why your words don’t mean sh*t,” she sings, and adds: “And guess what? / This heartbreak morphed into hate.” The video is as powerful as the song, depicting Reyez singing in a house and getting swept up into a visceral dance choreography. One scene captures the singer sitting on a couch surrounded by dying flowers — a heavily symbolic image that evokes the same intense emotions as the ballad does. The lyrics grow even more clever and razor-sharp as the song continues to build over the course of nearly four minutes: “And guess what / Your karma’s that you love me still,” she sings. [I]Yessie[/I] follows the eclectic 2020 LP [I][URL='https://uproxx.com/music/jessie-reyez-before-love-came-to-kill-us-review/']Before Love Came To Kill Us[/URL][/I], which soon after became extended as [URL='https://uproxx.com/pop/jessie-reyez-before-love-came-to-kill-us-deluxe-edition/']a surprise deluxe album[/URL] that features verses from A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Rico Nasty, and more. Watch the stunning video for “Mutual Friend” above. [I]Yessie[/I] is out 9/9 via FMLY/Island Records. [url="https://uproxx.com/music/jessie-reyez-yessie-mutual-friend/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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