Turning to the “familiar under duress,” Carl, sounds right. For me, that was embodied in the way I warmed up to Kehlani’s SweetSexySavage, an album I initially disliked for what I perceived as thinness. By the end of the year, it was one of my favorites for the way it brought me back to simplicity, a 2017 interpretation of the melodic, scorned-woman-finding-herself R&B I came up on from artists such as Monica, Brandy, and Lil Mo. Concurrently, the most emotionally moving live experience I had this year was finally seeing Janet Jackson, my favorite pop star since the age of eight, during her State of the World tour. She had postponed the New York–New Jersey leg in 2015 so she could have her first child at 50, an admirable feat in itself. In the two years since, the tour’s ever-relevant, socially conscious concept strengthened, beginning with a gimlet focus on police brutality in the era of Black Lives Matter and moving to our descent into Trumpism—with many hits from 1989’s Rhythm Nation still sadly relevant today.
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