History is littered with examples of Black women whose voices, emotions and experiences have been stripped of their humanity. And while it is true that most men couldn’t handle the brutally honest truth from women, Heaux Tales feels like it’s as close as any of us will ever get to being a fly on the proverbial wall. Since the dawn of time, men have been trying to figure out what women talk about among themselves. Like so: “ Oh, I’m tryna find a f- to give for you/You ran out of chances of forgivin’, yeah,” she sings on “Pick Up Your Feelings.” “ Yeah, listen, I ain’t listenin’/Just for you to go and break my heart again.” They dictate the tempo through their individual “tales,” giving Sullivan the freedom to wax poetic in unabashed, vulnerable displays.
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Antoinette, Ari (Lennox), Donna, Rashida, Precious and Amanda each confess to a litany of personal insecurities and dreams: insatiable sexual desires, the love of money and the options it brings for a better life, losing love and being the reason, how to find the beauty in themselves in an Instagram-obsessed world. Six individual testimonies from Black women serve as the collective muses for Sullivan’s first album since 2015’s Reality Show. And, in the case of Heaux Tales, it’s therapy. It’s an advisory board on everything from career moves to happy hours. On any given day, a group chat takes on a litany of forms: It’s a stand-up comedy show. She once crafted hit records about destroying property because of a jilted lover and having a heart-to-heart with another, saying she was in love with someone else.Īt the time of its release, my assessment was that Heaux Tales is the album version of a group chat. Transparency has always been one of Sullivan’s strengths. Heaux Tales is not only one of 2021’s standout projects, but it could well be one of the most honest. And let life figure out the rest.” Sullivan did just that. There’s a saying that, if practiced, can lead to a true purpose-driven life. But it damn sure wasn’t doing her any favors, either. The world wasn’t purposely conspiring against the Philadelphia native. Capitol insurrection in Washington, and quite frankly, that’s where much of the discussion in and around America lived in the moment. For one, it dropped 48 hours after the U.S. Jazmine Sullivan’s Heaux Tales could’ve easily been drowned out. The Undefeated asked our writers to pick the most important albums from an insane year.
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