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The song touches on the subject of self-awareness and the process of identifying negative thoughts, whether it's insecurity around her dark skin tone, the fear of disappointing her parents, or the feeling of fear holding anyone (especially black people) back.
"I've been black, I've been back" is a call to embrace the darkness within and on the skin of the artist to overcome mundane difficulties and tap into enlightenment.
Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell