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D'Angelo's Voodoo

D'Angelo's Voodoo

Pennick, Faith A.

Paperback

Series: 33 1/3, Book 144

Blues & SoulGeneral MusicMusic Reference

Publisher Price: $14.95

ISBN10: 1501336509
ISBN13: 9781501336508
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Mar 5 2020
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.70 Depth: 6.40
Language: English

Voodoo, D'Angelo's much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as neo-soul, a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later. The album is a product of heightened emotions and fused sensibilities; an amalgam of soul, rock, jazz, gospel, hip-hop, and Afrobeats. D'Angelo put to music his own pleasures and insecurities as a man-child in the promised land. It was both a tribute to his musical heroes: Prince, Sly Stone, Marvin Gaye, J Dilla...and a deconstruction of rhythm and blues itself.

Despite nearly universal acclaim, the sonic expansiveness of Voodoo proved too nebulous for airplay on many radio stations, seeping outside the accepted lines of commercial R&B music. Voodoo was Black, it was definitely magic, and it was nearly overshadowed by a four-minute music video featuring D'Angelo's sweat-glistened six-pack abs. The Video created an accentuated moment when the shaman lost control of the spell he cast.

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