JuJu Performs New Single

'Acceptance'

Mid-week Wednesday also known as hump day. Two options on the table either start googling for my assignments that are due sooner than I think or take this free ticket I was given last week and head over to the Basement Jamz. Easiest decision I’ve made all week. I’m out (My priorities are all messed up… don’t judge me…)

 

Basement lit with candles on every table, blue and red lights hovering over the stage area. It feels like I’ve been here in a past life or maybe the intimate settings reminded me of my home. The house band playing Sade’s ‘No Ordinary Love'. I am definitely loving the vibe.

 

JuJu steps through the red curtains dripped in all black from head to toe. Dr Martens boots complimenting the black fringe biker leather jacket and black sweat headband. Couldn’t tell if she was coming from the gym or a motorcycle rally. Either way I’m here for the music.

 

The deep base coming from her diaphragm reminded me of a young Anita Baker mixed with Jasmine Sullivan. Her soulful vocals match the deep pain bleeding through the speakers.

‘I call that making the song cry’.

Her music stripped to its core, buried emotions are evoked and we are taken back to the very essence of what separates natural talent from autotuned junkies. Her arsenal fully equipped with effortless falsettos and melisma, shoots down any preconceived doubts I had of her ability to sing.

 

As she sings ‘now I’m loving myself’, it refreshed my thoughts that great art can be dark art which is birthed in deepest and darkest valleys unknown to the human race.

It’s painfully clear this is more like a therapy session for JuJu, going through the motions, finally reaching stage five ‘acceptance’.