>Cookie was 20 years ago, this isn't a trend lol. The Nic music
>interlude with Vox thing was more oa a Miseducation thing, and
>this seems what Sault is trying to do more than meshell's
>Cookie imo. I mean I dont hate it, and even still like You
>Know It Aint but just like the other spoken words that are
>more..wait..like Cookie (now I get it, i.e. the Angela Davis
>voices, property rights speech etc) I guess they are mixing
>the silly with the edutaining.

Yeah, I should have been more clear in a few ways. I'm not saying Cookie started a trend. Rather, there is a clear *current* trend toward incorporating either 1) the type of found sound/soundbites that Meshell used on Cookie, or 2) spoken interludes that the artist has created by talking with others (see Solange's Seat, or more recently Jazmine Sullivan's Heaux Tales, but they're really all over -- Kota's FOTO, I could go on). I just feel like both of these styles are having a moment, admittedly a bit of a prolonged one.

In the case of the former - the more Cookie-style - in my own thinking, I've tried to trace where that came from... and I keep going back to Cookie. I'm 100% positive there are lots of other examples before that but, to my thinking, Meshell's approach was very distinctive and a lot of the current uses of found sound seem similar. But I'm not even trying to say she's an originator, just a prominent early example particularly within the milieu of hip hop/r&b/funk.

But honestly, it's the latter category (spoken interludes) that is more common right now and Sault falls more in that camp. And I'm probably being unfair wrapping up Are You From London/You Know It Ain't in all of this ... because if anything, those fall more into the skit category. The narrated interludes on Nine and some of the material on the Untitled records fall into the second category I describe above...

Regardless, whether we're talking about skits/spoken interludes/found sound collages, these are all categories of material that (to me) pose a particular challenge in standing up to repeat listens, and I've felt it a bit with SAULT. It's a small critique, doesn't detract from the projects overall.



-thebigfunk

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