#raindance

The song is so soothing but so is the music video. I love being black and in those horrible times where anti-blackness is downplayed all around the world, seeing all those beautiful people thriving makes me as teary as it makes me happy.

And I love Dave and Tems' chemistry. They're like friends who might happen to be lovers. I'm obsessed.

And Tems is so beautiful in a way that makes me want to be beautiful myself, far from Western beauty standards. Beautiful as the way ENNY raps about Peng Black Girls. Beautiful like my mom, like my aunt, like my cousins, like my grandma.

"Transfomers: More than Meets the Eye" from Dreamwave comics in 2003 was their answer to thr 1980's "Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe" and "The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe"

Each major, and minor Transformer from G1 up until just before Beast Wars seemed to get an entry.

This has always been one of my favourite oddball combiners. Grandslam and Raindance are Cassette-bots who don't have a robot mode, they have their cassette mode and a vehicle mode. But they can combine into a the larger robot mode (and personality): Slamdance.

Also their career paths are as journalists. Grandslam a respected "fair and balanced"," old school" audio correspondent before the war who the Decepticons tried to woo into giving them good coverage in hopes he would only say nice things about them (he did not), and Raindance,a slightly egotistical video jockey.

A sense of inevitability pulses through Raindance, Dave’s luminous collaboration with Tems, now brought to life in an official video filmed in Lagos. “Raindance” feels like a calm center before the next surge. Shot across Lagos’ vibrant streets, the video deepens the song’s emotional register, framing connection and calm within a city that hums with life. It follows Dave’s recent cameo in Tems’…