“It’s a love song, a statement, telling your baby that they're doing it juuuuust right…” So says Toronto based singer/songwriter Saidah Baba Talibah about new single '(S)cream'.
If raw, brash, pulsing sexuality is your thing, then this song is going to hit the right spot. Growing up in Canada and born into a highly successful musical family (her mother is Grammy-nominated jazz/blues singer Salome Bey), Talibah is getting pulses racing with her self-proclaimed ‘raunchy-soul’ and '(S)cream' is a stylish and confident fusion of soul rock and funk.
It is essentially three minutes and forty seconds of noisy orgasm, stunningly produced with a chorus of screaming guitars and a beat that makes you want to pole dance. Talibah’s voice is a highly charged vocal blend of Etta James and Skunk Anansie and her rich, assertive, vocals are ideal to portray the intensity of female sexuality.
The '(S)cream' video is worth catching too. We live in an age where female musicians are under immense pressure to conform to a certain idea of what it means to be 'sexy', and yet Talibah manages to create a highly sensual and erotic music video by using only her slick lipsticked lips, some spiralling intergalactic butterfly face-makup, a python, and a cosmic backdrop of planets and stars. It is a visually stunning work, and compliments the track perfectly.
'(S)cream' is out now - so if you consider yourself a lover, go and check it out. If good sex has a soundtrack, I swear, this song is on repeat.
Photo Credit: Anna Keenan
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