Music Review | Erykah Badu: Idealism and Bawdiness Under Many Guises
| brooklynvegan found this 5/13/2008 on www.nytimes.com [flag] |
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Erykah Badu (and the Roots) played Radio City Music Hall
Published 5/13/2008 by brooklynvegan at brooklynvegan
... "She can sing in flinty syncopated interjections, in sassy turns and in cooing long lines, and her voice alludes to Billie Holiday and Dinah Washington as well as to Diana Ross. Most of her songs are undulating two-chord vamps that give her room to free-associate between choruses...." [Jon Parales, NY Times] ...
