Mystery singer H.E.R. has graced us with more music– six more songs to be exact.
In addition to merging the tracks from Vol.1 and Vol. 2, more love, heartbreak, and savagery shone through on this album. Vol. 2, the B Sides was released Friday, October 20th, about two weeks before her first headlining tour starts on November 5th in Washington, DC. The Lights On Tour, unfortunately, completely sold out in under a day! :( So if you got a ticket, you are blessed and highly favored.
“2” was the first single released early from the album, one of the more savage type songs. She describes how a guy she was with was continuously playing her, and how he was thinking she was hurt and didn’t know, but by using a catchy hook “I was playing you too,” she tells how she was playing him at the same exact time, in the same exact way.
My favorite song is “Let Me In,” a song about how she is with someone who won’t let her get to know the real them. I can relate so much to the frustration of being with someone who won’t let their barriers down and all you want to do is understand them and have them trust you, yet have to understand that relationship trust can’t be forced.
“Best Part” featuring Daniel Caesar was first released on his album late August and has become a part of this project. This beautiful love ballad seems to describe the perfect relationship, that never-ending cupcake phase. “You’re the coffee that I need in the morning. You’re my sunshine in the rain when it’s pouring,” are just a couple lines from this duet, a single I feel will become utterly timeless it’s so darn cute.
On the flip side, a toxic relationship is demonstrated in “Free,” where she is single but yearning for a relationship with someone who she doesn’t want to be with and vice versa. Going back to love songs we hear “Rather Be” about falling hopelessly in love with someone and confessing her love, saying there’s nowhere she’d rather be than with them. Turning right back into the savage attitude with “Hopes Up,” she’s involved with a guy for lustful reasons but tells him that he won’t have anything more with her with the catchy hook “don’t get your hopes up.”
All in all, the new songs are just as amazing as the existing ones, and H.E.R. is bound to continue her rise to fame.