Maysa

“To my daughter I will say, when men come, set yourself on fire.”

«... an everyday kind of magic: the capacity of culture to help us imagine who we might become—not in terms of where to aim our libido but of how to walk the world with dignity and confidence. How “a fat black girl from Chicago / could dance until she felt pretty.” Being yourself shouldn’t be this hard. But popular culture, even as it prizes difference, rarely captures the variety that resides within identities such as black, or queer, or immigrant. This is the challenge that animates “Freetown Sound,” a wondrous tapestry of eighties dance music and R. & B., embroidered with fragmentary questions about family and migration, Christianity, and the expectations that come with black masculinity. What’s most striking about the album is that it is full of other people’s voices. Sometimes, as in the case of Haze, they are there to model another way of being. At other times, these voices are reminders of the world that has shaped Hynes himself—quotes from De La Soul or Ta-Nehisi Coates that rewired his brain, alongside sampled dispatches from faraway conflicts. [...] When the release date for “Freetown Sound” was announced, Hynes posted a message on Instagram explaining that the album was intended for those who had been told they were “not black enough, too black, too queer, not queer the right way.” It’s a tension at the heart of identity: how to identify with a community larger than yourself while remaining true to your own individual weirdness».

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