![]() I have found an article from 2017 where they highlight India.Arie’s brilliance and discuss her words of empowerment: Video is a song about self-acceptance and not having to compare one’s self to women in music videos. I have had the song, Video, stuck in my head for days – I am not sure how it got in there but I am not going to let it out! I would encourage people to buy Acoustic Soul on vinyl because it sound tremendous and is a perfect album to get lost in. One cannot deny the legacy of the album and the fact that it has influenced modern Neo-Soul artists. R&B groups like Destiny’s Child were providing a more synthetic and processed form of music whereas India.Arie gave the world this more natural, musical and diverse album that was less about going in hard with big choruses and more about letting the music unfurl and get into the heart. What gets to me is how anyone can ignore and sell short an album as brilliant as Acoustic Soul! Maybe she got snubbed at the Grammys because, in 2001, there was nobody like India.Arie about. ![]() She realised that she had to make the music she wanted to, rather than what people expected of her. This oversight affected India.Arie and it took her a while to recover. One could allege there was a racial component at work showing an ignorance or, at the very least, not understanding the power and importance of Acoustic Soul. There have been some big snubs through the years but, in one of the biggest snubs ever, India.Arie lost in every category. Acoustic Soul was released in 2001 and was nominated for seven Grammys in 2002. Above all, there would have been this positive spirit and togetherness that fed into her psyche affected her debut album and made it such a classic. ![]() One can only imagine those early days where she was being exposed to great Soul and Motown records. It is hardly a surprise India.Arie decided to get into music and was inspired at a young age. ![]() She travelled a lot and there was always singing and dancing in the family. The fact is India.Arie grew up around a lot of music. Her father was an NBA player whilst her mother was a Motown singer who opened for Stevie Wonder and Al Green when she was a teenager. The Colorado-raised India.Arie was born into a talented family. In a scene where there is a lot of processed Pop and Post-Punk rawness, Neo-Soul has a sunniness that is hard to ignore but it also allows artists to go deep and talk about something important or political. I think the world would benefit from the sort of brilliance and uplift the genre offers. There are a few great Neo-Soul artists around at the moment – including Jamila Woods –, but it is a style of music that is desperately missed. ![]()
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