Solange Knowles hasn’t launched an album since 2019’s Once I Get Residence, however her subsequent artistic physique of labor may take her followers without warning.
Knowles graces the most recent cowl of Harper’s Bazaar, and within the cowl story revealed Tuesday (Feb. 20), she opened up about her fascination with the tuba and the way she’s been writing music for the brass instrument.
“I adore it. I’ve began writing music for the tuba, and I’m making an attempt to speak myself into releasing it, however I can solely think about the attention rolls from individuals being like, this b—h hasn’t made an album,” she stated.
Solange defined that the tuba’s raspiness connects along with her soul. “It appears like what the intestine feels wish to me,” she described. “There’s a manner that it takes up house you can’t deny, and it additionally simply feels very Black to me.”
The “Almeda” singer has been apprehensive about releasing her tuba tones, as she doesn’t know the way followers will react to the artistic pivot, however she’s not closing the door on the chance.
Solange’s final album, Once I Get Residence, arrived in March 2019 and noticed contributions from an array of collaborators together with Gucci Mane, Playboi Carti, Metro Boomin and Tyler, the Creator.
The mission debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 43,000 album items bought within the first week and ended up being ranked at No. 27 on our Finest 50 Albums of 2019 checklist.
Tyler described the natural technique of collaborating with Solange on the Gucci Mane-assisted “My Pores and skin My Emblem,” on which the Grammy-winning rapper is a producer.
“It’s such a pure feeling that she’s actually tapped into,” he advised Harper’s Bazaar. “I believe that’s why I favored her, as a result of [her art] wasn’t based mostly on chasing any zeitgeist, whether or not it was one thing political or like, yeah, I’m down like a f–king undercover cop.”
Tyler continued: “She’s not an undercover cop. She’s simply her, and he or she makes no matter she desires. I really feel like 80 p.c of artists with these alternatives to place one thing out don’t do this as a result of they’re chasing numbers. She bought daughters … like, it’s a number of them on the market that’s not citing her.”
