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Solange:
🎵 Losing You
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Tina Knowles Opens Up About Why She Put Beyoncé and Solange in Therapy as Kids: ‘I Got So Scared’ https://shinemycrown.com/tina-knowles-opens-up-about-why-she-put-beyonce-and-solange-in-therapy-as-kids-i-got-so-scared/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TinaKnowles #Beyoncé #Solange #Therapy #Parenting
Tina Knowles Reveals How Beyoncé and Solange Supported Her During Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Surgery
#Variety #Musicians #News #Beyonce #Solange #Tinaknowles
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Solange:
🎵 Where Do We Go
https://open.spotify.com/track/08MbvwVOZdMNESjkoVdXxE
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🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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Solange Knowles “Sol Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams” is one of the most creative R&B albums to come out in the last 20 yrs and half yall missed the boat when it dropped, but it ain’t to late to spin the block.
#solange #solangeknowles #solangelandthehadleystdreams #randb #funk
Solange Sings “Cranes in the Sky”
Listen to this track by Houstonian progressive R&B singer, songwriter, and producer Solange Knowles, better known simply as Solange. It’s “Cranes in the Sky” a hit single from her acclaimed 2016 record A Seat at the Table, her third album. The song was a Grammy-winner, garnering Solange a Best R&B Performance as well as winning a spot on Rolling Stone‘s ever-evolving Best 500 Songs of All Time list. It also scored a big number seven on their Best Songs of 2016 list along with many other appearances on end-of-year wrap-ups across several publications. This is not to mention its respectable chart placements all over the world.
As a whole, A Seat at the Table found Solange leveling up as an artist, evolving her established pop approach into a more ambitious and sonically expansive sound. Her efforts paid off, representing her first number one record on the Billboard 200 in the U.S. as well as her first record to chart internationally. On the surface, this might give its title a meaningful angle. But that phrase covers a gamut of themes on the record that have very little to do with careerism, one of those being very specifically concerned with a Black woman’s role within mainstream social and political structures. For more on that, be sure to read this piece by journalist and music writer Britt Julious.
In the meantime, “Cranes in the Sky” stands out among the other songs on the album in part because, unlike other songs, it was not written specifically for the album. It percolated over period of nearly a decade, written in its initial forms after the break-up of Solange’s first marriage in 2008, carrying all of the pain of that experience. Yet the song contains other and more diverse themes that go beyond the unique experiences of its author.
“Cranes in the Sky” began as a collaboration with Raphael Saadiq; a record producer and multi-instrumentalist with an impressive history in working with acts like Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, and many other musical luminaries. Solange listened to the musical treatments that Saadiq provided to her via CD, serving as background music as she wrote the lyrics and melody. When it came time to finish work on A Seat at the Table, Solange revisited this older song and also her collaboration with Saadiq whom she brought on as a co-producer on the song and on others that appeared on the new album.
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The result is a serene and atmospheric mélange of textures in sympathy with Solange’s languid vocal at its center, the production swaddling the whole concoction in a warm and unhurried envelope of sound. Stylistically, the song touches on neo-soul, downtempo, and film music, with layered call and response backing vocals that suggest a collectivized Greek chorus of ancient tragedy transplanted into the modern day.
Solange at Coachella, 2014 (image: Neon Tommy)Sonically, “Cranes in the Sky” is as contented as it’s possible to be. Thematically, it writhes with tension. This contrast is the engine to how it delivers a potent message about the human capacity for indulging in distractions and denial as one struggles with a disquieted spirit. It touches on the common experience of troublesome voices of the mind and the restless feelings of the heart that indicate that all is not well, despite well-worn coping mechanisms and pretenses.
Sometimes even then, human beings can’t always trace the source of a troubled spirit. This only adds to the friction between daily life and a lack of inner peace. It’s a malady that new dresses, workalcoholism, and even good sex can’t cure. This is what it is to live in the modern world; disconnected from the forces that push someone’s idea of progress ahead, but making all who live in the world very much subject to their whims and to the consequences that follow them.
The “Cranes in the Sky” in the title and in the chorus are literally that; construction cranes that seemed to blot out the scenery in a once-quiet town where Solange herself once found solace. Here they serve as a metaphor for mindless, voracious building up without the mindfulness of what becomes lost beneath new surfaces, built environments, and political structures. This in turn is a metaphor for all of the things the narrator tries as she seeks to cover up the truth of a situation by adding layers of temporary salves on top of the hurt and anxiety underneath.
I tried to keep myself busy
I ran around circles
Think I made myself dizzy
I slept it away, I sexed it away
I read it away
Away, away, away, away, away, away
Away, away, away, away, away
Well, it’s like cranes in the sky
Sometimes I don’t wanna feel those metal clouds– “Cranes in the Sky”, Solange
“Cranes in the Sky” is a highly personal song that came about as its writer struggled with life events. But it is also one that suggests the demands of single-minded agendas attached to constant expansion. It implies the ways that agendas are imposed on people whether they are willing to submit to them or not, forcing populations to deal with changes and movements without time to process their implications. These themes lend the song incredible thematic dimension as an artistic work that is political and yet also remains highly personal, capturing emotional states of mind and concepts of great political import all at once.
This tune is a masterclass in striking a balance between these poles. Among other things, it invites all kinds of socially pertinent questions around how the mainstream defines the concept of progress and its relationship, or lack thereof, to social equity, spiritual contentment, and freedom from violence. These ideas cast light on social gaps that also can’t be pushed away with consumerism, overwork, or with shiny technological fads intended to define the future for everybody when so often they only serve the agendas of the few in the immediate present.
(image: Neon Tommy)At the center of this song, Solange’s lyrics quietly suggest that something has to give and not just in her own life. It’s a song that’s fraught with frustration. But it’s also one that contains a sense of power in knowing the source of one’s pain enough to understand oneself all the more, clearing the skies where the industrious cranes of progress obscure the view and are in fact revealed to be distractions in their own right.
Solange is an active songwriter and performer today.
To learn about the background of how she created the material for A Seat at the Table, listen to this 8-minute conversation with Solange at NPR from 2016 and/or read the transcript. In it, she talks about reconnecting with her family and cultural roots in Louisiana and how that helped her to shape the songs on the record.
And for more on Solange and her thematic explorations of Blackness on her follow-up album When I Get Home, read this article from 2019 which is also by Britt Julious and published in The Guardian.
Enjoy!
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Tina Knowles reveals Malibu home lost to LA fires: As efforts to extinguish the historic Los Angeles wildfires continue, Beyonce and Solange’s mother, Tina Knowles, is the latest well-known figure to speak out about their loss. The matriarch has stated that her Malibu mansion was burned and destroyed. In an emotional Instagram post, Knowles uploaded a video of her view from the residence and […] https://creebhills.com/2025/01/tina-knowles-reveals-malibu-home-lost-to-la-fires?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #TinaKnowles #Beyonce #Solange #Malibu #LosAngeles
Solange Hints at a Musical Comeback: ‘I’ll Dedicate Myself to It Full-Time Next Year’ https://shinemycrown.com/solange-hints-at-a-musical-comeback-ill-dedicate-myself-to-it-full-time-next-year/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Solange #MusicalComeback #Dedicate #FullTime #NextYear
Beyonce, Solange, & Kelly Rowland Congratulate Tina Knowles on Glamour Woman of the Year Win https://creebhills.com/2024/10/tina-knowles-on-glamour-woman-of-the-year-win?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Celebrities #Beyoncé #KellyRowland #Solange #TinaKnowles
FRAGE @Bluesky : "Dienen die Meldungen zu
einem #Parteiverbot zu diesem Zeitpunkt
alle nur dazu noch mehr #AfD Wähler
zu mobilisieren ??" 😱 😱 😱
#Solange Du die #Frösche fragst
wird es #nie einen richtigen #Zeitpunkt
zum #Trockenlegen ihres #Sumpfes geben !
Das #Problem mit der #Reaktanz
wird mit #weiterem #Zuwarten
nur immer größer werden !
Sollen wir wg. #Nachfrageboom
von #Idioten nach #Ölheizungen
auf #Wärmepumpen verzichten ? 🚫
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