Sign up for the 10 to Hear newsletter here. at her greatest.Ĭatch up every Saturday with 10 of our best-reviewed albums of the week. shines-and it’s the closest the album comes to capturing H.E.R. She harmonizes as the track fades out, conjuring an image of her standing on stage in the spotlight just before its cut. You would think my love was really something good, Baby, if I could change the world. And I can change the world, I will be the sunlight in your universe. She’s searching for more corners to place her voice in, singing up and down with the notes of her guitar. Change-inspiring lyrics: That this love I have inside. a different sort of backdrop to work with. What new wrinkles could she incorporate into her sound? Listening to Back of My Mind, it’s hard to tell, but the answer may lie in a song like “We Made It”-or its sonic opposite, the earthy, “Hold On.” Its soulful DNA feels endearingly familiar-so much so that I had to make sure it wasn’t a cover-and, paired with its live instrumentation, gives H.E.R. The choices she makes-from the glossy R&B production to favoring vocal riffing over a good hook-feel altogether safe, like she’s protecting a legacy she was born into. seemingly has the heavy, heartstruck ballads built for streaming playlists down, but there seems like there’s already a limit on where she’s willing to go within a song. Elsewhere DJ Khaled and, disappointingly, Chris Brown, show up and don’t contribute anything to make the record feel more dynamic. The title track, meanwhile, is more successful, as she and Ty Dolla $ign’s sweet spots overlap, creating a smooth back and forth. song, with its flavorless trap beat and stock lyrics. The Lil Baby feature on “Find a Way,” for example, sounds like a Lil Baby song, not a H.E.R. Rather than doing that, she tries to switch things up through collaboration, which leads to mixed results. would break out of her sleepy hum and shoot for something more spirited. But by the time you get to “Exhausted,” another ballad that relies solely on her voice and one layer of instrumentation, you wish H.E.R. Nearly all of them are simple and pretty, like “Mean It,” a gentle and poignant acoustic song with a chorus that gets more lodged in your chest each time H.E.R. A lot of times I find now, when I'm on the road, writing in the van or the bus is the best time for my mind if there's not a lot of other music in the car. Its warm, ’80s-inspired production and schmaltzy lyrics sound like something you’d heard on a late-night slow jams radio show.īallads were a staple of H.E.R.’s initial five EPs, and she again uses them frequently on Back of My Mind, for better or worse. With the help of songwriter Ant Clemons, H.E.R.’s delicate lilt folds in beautifully with the beat as she warns a lover to be careful with her heart. Always on My Mind Lyrics by Willie Nelson from the Lifetime of Country Romance Collection album - including song video, artist biography, translations and. One of those moments is on “Damage,” which thoughtfully incorporates a late-career Herb Alpert sample (one Bone Thugs-N-Harmony fans might recall) by adding in plucks of piano, thudding drums, and a big low end.
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