![]() ![]() Telephone Man” uses wind instruments, piano, and claps along with its stuttering drum machine, and even when she sings over a largely melody-free beat on “Phone Down,” the lyrics-built around a “I can make you put your phone down” conceit-speak to a yearning for a tech-free experience.Īll of this is relevant in the culture right now. ![]() It’s no surprise that two of the biggest songs of the year-”Hotline Bling” and Adele’s “Hello”-are built around the themes of phones and disconnection, and it makes a lot of sense for Badu, as an artist who’s always been looking at those ideas, would devote an entire eleven-track mixtape to them. Both as a songwriter and an interpreter of songs like “Hotline Bling” and “Mr. ![]() Telephone Man,” Badu is making art that reflects the world we’re all living in, and sometimes that requires going weird places. ![]()
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