4/5
Say Less
Yes, Queen. These days, real R&B might be dominated by the likes of SZA and Solange, making their legend like the aforementioned's sister, or Rihanna, but let's not forget about Melanie Fiona and what 'The Bridge' of her debut did back in 2009. 'It Kills Me' and 'Teach Him'...my God, what a way to end an album for the record. It may have been a long time since 'The MF Life', 2012 to be exact, but Melanie Fiona is still the apple of music's ear, motherf#####s! Even if we haven't had an album, like The Renaissance of the Canadian's group project with fellow Toronto star Drake, which has yet to yield an album, but can probably wait.
Even now, in here return, it's not album grand, but it really is something as the 'Say Yes' EP is the extended play that will have you affirming her talent once more. From the very second she sets the incense alight to the sexy as hell red room video of the titular track, you just know it's back on, like f#####g after a fight with the one you love through thick and thin. "No more fighting/I want love without the war/I'm inviting/You to even up the score/If l lay my cards out on the table/Showing hearts like never before/Tell me, will you be ready, willing and able/When I come knocking at your door?", Melanie muses over a beautiful Andre Harris beat. As sexy and as sultry as the dance hall video of fellow single 'I Choose You' that you will make your selection.
This is the remix, an extended jam of 'Say Yes' featuring Harris, Charlie Bereal, Chris Dave, SiR and the great, instrumental Thundercat. An inspired, classic collaboration like the LaRussell feature on 'Make Me Feel' that will have you yearning for more on what feels like an album that's just getting started. Perhaps it is, as the 'Bang, Bang' dramatic soprano singer gives us more on 'Do That'. But it's the formidable Fiona's perfect portrait (like the song's or album artwork) on the cinematic 'Mona Lisa Smile' singer that really resonates. Singing, "Perfect picture in a broken frame and/No one ever sees the broken pieces of the painting/I know you're lying, I'm lying, it's crazy/I don't really know why in the hell I'm tryna save this/If I didn't love you, I'd walk out that door/If a man can have his pride, well, a girl could have more/I'd rather go to war, before I let a teardrop hit this floor", feeling like a precursor to an actual album. If this is a litmus test for that, you know what we say? Yes! TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Playlist Picks: 'Say Yes', 'Make Me Feel (Feat. LaRussell)', 'Mona Lisa Smile'.
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