![]() Here she is at the disaster site of an intense romance and therefore unable to fully commit to whomever she is singing to. She is singing higher notes, and the production is stripped back. On “Graffiti,” her voice feels more delicate. The song starts with a sinister-sounding piano, a sort of warning to listeners. ![]() On the opener, “Disillusion,” Shyamalan sings mostly in third person as she tries to talk herself out of an illusion of love she has already fallen for. ![]() On “Seance,” released in May, she ruminates on heartbreak, elegantly wading through the shallow while also fearlessly diving into the darker deep stuff. Instead it is propelled by her signature laid-back delivery. Her plushy voice never sounds like it is reaching some sort of limit. The 26-year-old singer-songwriter from Philadelphia has the perfect voice for the moody, sometimes gloomy songs that she crafts. Saleka Shyamalan’s R&B world is sultry and shadowy. A sexy R&B jam becomes a brooding rock song. Ndegeocello gets close to whisper-singing again, not dissimilar to Jackson’s style, but also brings in some lower-register vocals. Janet Jackson’s dreamy and sexy “Funny How Time Flies (When You’re Having Fun)” gets somber strings and bass. Add in some slight lyric changes, and the song becomes introspective and filled with a new sense of despair. There is a squeaky, bright acoustic guitar undercurrent, and her ethereal voice sometimes reaches a near-whisper. Ndegeocello’s magic is felt on every track of her 2018 project “Ventriloquism.” When she covers TLC’s “Waterfalls,” one of the biggest songs ever is unrecognizable. ![]() One of her biggest hits is a cover of Bill Withers’s “Who Is He (And What Is He To You)” that she released in 1996. That, combined with her ability to find a hanging thread on a song and fearlessly pull it, has allowed her to give well-known, mostly R&B songs of the last few decades a new life. Ndegeocello, who grew up in the District and started her career as a bass player for local go-go bands, has a distinct bluesy voice packaged in folksy delivery. Meshell Ndegeocello takes a song you probably know, deconstructs it, then reconstructs it inside your ears. ![]()
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