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6 days agoNaomi Scott: F.I.G
Naomi Scott drew on church harmonies and 1980s–1990s music to craft an alt-pop debut blending blue-lit soul, sophisticated R&B, and warm syncopated rhythms.
Monáe shredded on guitar to the PinkPantheress cut "Another Life," while helpful signs on stage pointed out that she was, in fact, a famous person, and worthy of applause from the famously phone-addled crowd.
Above all else, grief is intensely personal. Where hope is a thing with feathers, a flying, beautiful feeling we all recognize, grief is its opposite: a universal emotion that's nonetheless mostly private and impossible to convey in its depths. Grief creates a gulf between you and other people. I find that ironic, given its universality. We'll all lose someone or something foundational, but that certainty doesn't make it any more legible. Though it does resonate; it does produce echoes in others.