Right? It's so annoying too when mainstream news and everyone starts panicking about music that is made by adults for other adults and even has the "Explicit Contents" label on it, and then talking heads all starts echoing "BUT BUT HOW ARE WE LETTING OUR CHILDREN GET EXPOSED TO THIS???", and I always just wanna ask them like... idk why are you letting your children access explicit music? Even if it's on the radio, why are you not paying attention to which age-appropriate types of music those stations are playing? (I know your comment wasn't really about that I just felt like ranting. So sick of content FOR ADULTS that is being dragged and ruined by adult-children who want to drag kids into it when it was never even for them in the first place)
As a 29 year old woman I am grateful to see a 40 year old woman make such a classic and boppy sound. Like she’s in her element and it’s an inspiration to keep going! Cause if I get to 40 and making classics like this then I’m satisfied ❤
Man! :( I saw this video, saw it was Thursday and thought maybe the album was coming out tonight at midnight. Oh well, I can still wait til Feb but it's not gonna be easy. Everything I've heard from this new record is insane. I'm already a huge fan but this album is gonna blow the lid off!
It’s always fun to tell people what certain songs make me feel, so here goes: This song is beautiful in so many ways, I cannot even explain in full detail. The buildup, the progression, and the lack of loss over the entire vibe of the song, it’s all art. I have always had troubles with lust, being unable to control my need for anything thing related to lust. It feels like a trap, almost as if the harder I try to run away from it, the more I fall. But this song makes me feel as if it’s okay to be lustful. To feel lust is to be desiring of the flesh, something is considered a attribute of a weak-minded person. But I accept it. Because there is a certain magic and passion that comes with lust. Desiring someone else, to the extent to where you do all you can to satisfy your needs or wants, it’s beautiful. It’s imperfect, making me a great example with the flaws, yet the uniqueness, of humanity. I am currently figuring out what I want to do with my life. Given the fact that I am only 18, there are people that say I should know as well as people that say I still have time to figure it out. The thing is, I don’t really care for anything in particular. Everything bores me now. I have yet to experience life, but I somehow know what there is out there. Because I have depression and anxiety, my overthinking of the worst has somehow lead me to see the worst of what this world has to offer, and so it all feels dull. I have recreated so many situations in my mind and my reactions, so much so that sometimes it feels like I have already lived this life. I lived so many lives, and now I am just experiencing one of hundreds or thousands of lives. Maybe I am suffering from insomnia, or my anxiety is kicking in again, but since the age of 8, I have never stopped thinking. As amazing as some people think that is, it’s not. I just want to live a normal life. I just want to live in the moment. But I can’t, I took that away from myself. All I can do now is create with the imagination I have, something that is not physical. That’s why I love music so much. It’s literally making something out of nothing. This song is my life. This song is me talking to myself. I wish I had this before I lost myself. Have a good day to whoever read this. Honestly, if you can read this, you can do anything.
Listening to this feels like a deep, spiritual experience. At the risk of over-sharing, hearing this for the first time, I feel as if I am finally healing from years of painful experiences with failed attempts at love. I don't know what it is... but this song empowers me to love once again, fearlessly. Thank you Kelela. Your music means so much to us.
its her energy. Her and Solange both give off this freespirited ageless quality. They aren't chasing youth and trends either. They embody something different.
You are Kid-ding !😂💜 & I've never heard this Track before - but! I am absolutely Amazed - that Massive Attack didn't Sue!🤭💜 The moment she put this out💜💜 (Unique!😅💜) Hilarious! Go listen to Massive Attack🇬🇧💜 & various Other Bristol Jungle Bands & Collectives🇬🇧💜 & to 90s Goldie🇬🇧💜 etc etc🙏💜🏴💜🇮🇪💜🇬🇧💜
She is attractive, literally like a magnet, even if some footage look generic and amateur, hidden power breaks through due to her charisma. And her voice, timbre in particular, is almost archetypal, transcendental. Such an original artist and, I assume, person.
she literally cannot stop serving!!!! i cannot wait any longer for this freaking album. i already know it's going to be my favorite album of the year, without even hearing the rest of it.
Hi Kelela I hope you can read this comment some day and see that this song right here along with the visuals mean so much to me. I’ve been living in my shadow for many years I am 21 years old and have many ambitions after coming back to myself after a time of darkness. I love the visuals here because they show me a life I want to have of my own in a big city where I can have my space that I can call home and just be free in my energy. I’ve been living in the same small town full of closed minded people and abusers alike. This coming January I will make it out of here. Onto bigger and better things for ourselves ❤
In my relatively short almost 20 years on this earth, this is EXACTLY the kind of track I wanted to hear released in my lifetime with full awareness what's actually happening. I might have not loved the whole album, but its soundscapes make me extremely excited and hopeful for the next few years in electronic music. Thank you Kelela.
this song has the same feeling as a chill windy early winter night when it isn't super cold but the air feels fresh and the night feels light idk how else to explain it
Yes♥️ i like this new phase of K. Take me apart was feeling like am introspective and emocional album and this new one with the first 3 Singles seems so different, sound much like club
The Whitney Houston spirit was with you while making this. And I love that. We are literally being fed. We don’t deserve you 😭🥺 the talent. The video details. The pure unadulterated sexiness without over-sexualizing the video. It was seductive. Melodic. Poetic. Freeing. THIS IS MUSIC. THANK YOU 🙏🏾
Loneliness I see in your eyes It might just render you blind Been getting harder these days Contact we just have to make You're stressin, that's not allowed Got nothing holding us down You're leanin in, I sway Baby let's dance it away
It feels great being an adult with this type of music existing.
The indie labels are keeping it alive
Exactly
Me too
The epitome of real music , she’s unstoppable in every one of her eras
Right? It's so annoying too when mainstream news and everyone starts panicking about music that is made by adults for other adults and even has the "Explicit Contents" label on it, and then talking heads all starts echoing "BUT BUT HOW ARE WE LETTING OUR CHILDREN GET EXPOSED TO THIS???", and I always just wanna ask them like... idk why are you letting your children access explicit music? Even if it's on the radio, why are you not paying attention to which age-appropriate types of music those stations are playing?
(I know your comment wasn't really about that I just felt like ranting. So sick of content FOR ADULTS that is being dragged and ruined by adult-children who want to drag kids into it when it was never even for them in the first place)
love this 90s house/disco/jungle/DNB, liminal space modern chic basic instinct-esque lost in the lights of the city Neo noir moment she's giving us
HAHAHA
Couldn’t have said it better😂
my brain hurt 🤕
Name it all! Livin for it 🤣
Wow
It’s feels like a dream knowing that kelela is actually back and giving us an album in less than a month !! I prayed for times like this !!
It's Kelela
These upcoming songs reminds me of take me apart
so happy
Surreal honestly
I seriously didn't even know, omg, thank you for this, friend~❤
As a 90s jungle veteran, I LOVE how our music, trashed by the critics back then, has come to be so influential almost 30 years later.
💯😎
yes! I just remember 'everybody but the girl' and trip hop from 90s
#Commiseration
can you recommend me any old school jungle tunes that you think are absolute bangers? 😄 id love to listen
@@kpacubo. goldie is one of the major pioneers of jungle back in the 90s, timeless is a classic album
As a 29 year old woman I am grateful to see a 40 year old woman make such a classic and boppy sound. Like she’s in her element and it’s an inspiration to keep going! Cause if I get to 40 and making classics like this then I’m satisfied ❤
This is giving me strong 2000s vibes, I love it!!!
Janet mid to late-2000s energy ✨
Janet's Damita Jo energy
@@arrozconhuevo_ exactly what i had in mind.
Nah it's 2020's vibe
@@ZeKof9300 i guess. the old sound is back and refreshed
Kelela in 2000s style wigs...she's unstoppable
So in love with this era of kelela her artistry is unmatched and unparallell can’t wait for Feb 🖤
Man! :( I saw this video, saw it was Thursday and thought maybe the album was coming out tonight at midnight. Oh well, I can still wait til Feb but it's not gonna be easy. Everything I've heard from this new record is insane. I'm already a huge fan but this album is gonna blow the lid off!
@@SS-gx7tg seriously ! Every single she’s realized has been amazing !! Think my fav is between this and happy ending
This feels like nyc nightlife circa 1997
this is still nyc black queer nightlife
@@lonieboi1 could you recommend any poc-friendly queer clubs? i'm headed to nyc at the end of the summer. tysm :)
Yessssss, I wish I could experience that sometime in my life😢
her voice is like silk running through your skin. it's so smooth but also it has its own character. Idk how she does it but it's so soothing
my most played song of 2023... each replay of this and the album as a whole is as fresh as the day it came out
my most streamed song of 2023 too
kels and lsdxoxo are a match made in heaven 🌀
Literally like we need a joint Ep or something
the way there are 3 more songs on the album with lsdxoxo that we still haven’t even heard yet 😭
@@julepesaldana47 omg how you know this
@@nasserp3759he’s a major producer on the album he has 6 tracks
Wow her voice is so UNIQUE and I love it
Lovely sound. This feels like a 90s rnb music video. I like it 😊. Please check out *MayBe I haven't found love by Xara* .
UNIQUE! that’s what u are x
I don't know why but this reminds of the old school house music. :) My heart literally lit up hearing this song.
She's said that this new album was in homage to the types of dance music that excite her :) looks like she did a great job then
@@erfyw yep she did. I'm beyond happy
drum and bass/dance/house/rhythm and blues (r&b)
My thoughts exactly! It has that ethereal quality that early/mid 90s house tracks carried.
Because it sounds like old school house music?
My mom would so love that song, so I play it everyday so it can reach her spirit, I know shes listening!!!
bless, respect
pure 2000s vibe here
now need a EP of this:
2step UK garage remix,
dnb UK remix
and some classic house UK remix
This is giving me the year 1998 ❤❤❤
No mainstream artist could ever touch this level of feels let’s just be honest , the goddess has arrived long live Kelela the one and ONLY.
getting ready like: oh it's a sauna here if you wanna 💋
i love sauna
I am so spellbound by the aesthetic of this video.
I saw kelela in concert and I remember her looking at me in the eye as if she was singing to me it was amazing! This song is a HIT ❤
😭❤
Omg happened to me too ❤😭 never been the same since
This is already the ALBUM OF THE YEAR! 🔥
i know, and it's not even released! lol it was album of the year in december 2o22 haha
Raven is gonna give me take me apart vibes
Lsdxoxo obviously in the beat yessssss sound sickning yesssssssss kweens ♡
@@URDEAD-VT raven is gonna give me take me apart vibes too
This album and the new one by Lana Del Rey are coming for our jugulars 🔥🔥🔥
This song just came out yet it feels nostalgic, my inner child is bumping hard to this song
yesss, it sounds like something from the 90's.
🤞🏼 100%
I am in living this 1997 vibes right now listening and watching this masterpiece, the beat is transcendental, you are timeless Goddess.
It’s always fun to tell people what certain songs make me feel, so here goes:
This song is beautiful in so many ways, I cannot even explain in full detail. The buildup, the progression, and the lack of loss over the entire vibe of the song, it’s all art.
I have always had troubles with lust, being unable to control my need for anything thing related to lust. It feels like a trap, almost as if the harder I try to run away from it, the more I fall. But this song makes me feel as if it’s okay to be lustful. To feel lust is to be desiring of the flesh, something is considered a attribute of a weak-minded person. But I accept it. Because there is a certain magic and passion that comes with lust. Desiring someone else, to the extent to where you do all you can to satisfy your needs or wants, it’s beautiful. It’s imperfect, making me a great example with the flaws, yet the uniqueness, of humanity.
I am currently figuring out what I want to do with my life. Given the fact that I am only 18, there are people that say I should know as well as people that say I still have time to figure it out. The thing is, I don’t really care for anything in particular. Everything bores me now. I have yet to experience life, but I somehow know what there is out there. Because I have depression and anxiety, my overthinking of the worst has somehow lead me to see the worst of what this world has to offer, and so it all feels dull. I have recreated so many situations in my mind and my reactions, so much so that sometimes it feels like I have already lived this life. I lived so many lives, and now I am just experiencing one of hundreds or thousands of lives.
Maybe I am suffering from insomnia, or my anxiety is kicking in again, but since the age of 8, I have never stopped thinking. As amazing as some people think that is, it’s not. I just want to live a normal life. I just want to live in the moment. But I can’t, I took that away from myself. All I can do now is create with the imagination I have, something that is not physical. That’s why I love music so much. It’s literally making something out of nothing.
This song is my life. This song is me talking to myself. I wish I had this before I lost myself.
Have a good day to whoever read this. Honestly, if you can read this, you can do anything.
Listening to this feels like a deep, spiritual experience.
At the risk of over-sharing, hearing this for the first time, I feel as if I am finally healing from years of painful experiences with failed attempts at love.
I don't know what it is... but this song empowers me to love once again, fearlessly.
Thank you Kelela. Your music means so much to us.
This is exactly how I feel!! This song breathes new life into me
she's so fine and she's almost 40... queen of not aging
ALMOST 40!?
its her energy. Her and Solange both give off this freespirited ageless quality. They aren't chasing youth and trends either. They embody something different.
@@shannonhawkins1819 so true! they both have this charm to them. they really have young spirits
😮💨🤞🏼
@@nellex147 Yes 39
I feel truly blessed to be getting new Kelela music in 2023
Its been over 8 months and still best song of the year…
it's giving Tekken 2 character select music and it's a vibe
Oh my god yasssss
So 2000s editorial and I’m here for it! 🔊
Exactly 💯
I’m so happy she exists
And omg she is utter fit as hell ❤❤❤
OMG WITH THIS KIND OF SOUD WE ALL KNOW THAT RAVEN IS GOING TO BE TOP 3 OF ALL ALBUMS THAT WILL BE RELEASE THIS YEAR, DEEPLY IN LOVE WITH KELELA'S ART
Love the 90s aesthetic of the video
That brigde makes everything more unique than ever was.
You are Kid-ding !😂💜
& I've never heard this
Track before - but!
I am absolutely
Amazed - that
Massive Attack
didn't Sue!🤭💜
The moment she
put this out💜💜
(Unique!😅💜)
Hilarious!
Go listen to Massive Attack🇬🇧💜
& various Other Bristol
Jungle Bands &
Collectives🇬🇧💜
& to 90s Goldie🇬🇧💜
etc etc🙏💜🏴💜🇮🇪💜🇬🇧💜
kelela’s music videos are always exactly the same atmosphere and vibe of the song, she literally never disappoints
Kelela & Lsdxoxo, first it was the truth or dare remix, now this ? A joint album is needed
Also Happy ending was produced by lsdxoxo! I feel like we're going to get so much House and clubbing bangers on this release
plus happy ending and 3 other songs on the album! we bout to be EATING
She is attractive, literally like a magnet, even if some footage look generic and amateur, hidden power breaks through due to her charisma. And her voice, timbre in particular, is almost archetypal, transcendental. Such an original artist and, I assume, person.
💯T H I S 👏🏽
Couldnt be more accurate. She’s even more captivating irl I get shivers
The shot in front of the mirror with the red light in the back is amazing. Kelela you will always be famous
She delivered another bop. This album is gonna be the bomb.
such a crime people not making this reach 1 million view yet
Kelela's music always makes me feel sensual and sexy without feeling dirty. So refined 🥰
YessssS🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
this song feels like chicago in the 90’s
This goddess is 39 years old. Let that sink in
39 is not old so of course she still looks really good
she didn’t have to slay this hard and yet she did….
That is 4 for 4. Each single she puts out has me shaking for this album. I feel lightheaded.
When she says, “everybody faded” I go fucking feral
This is my go to “getting dressed to go out” video
This needs more recognition. Shorty is her own vibe
Even Obama was gagging
trdfsbnhkjdfnlgnjadfn had her on the list and EERTHANG
i remember you
😂
Kinda Massive Attack vibes (just in sound, no in lyrics) and more of 90's.
ME WHEN I HAVE THE HOUSE TO MYSELF 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
song of the year!!
she literally cannot stop serving!!!! i cannot wait any longer for this freaking album. i already know it's going to be my favorite album of the year, without even hearing the rest of it.
Each new song Kelela puts out becomes my favorite. I am loving this vibe so much!
Lovely sound. This feels like a 90s rnb music video. I like it 😊. Please check out *MayBe I haven't found love by Xara* .
I‘m soooooo happy i discovered her and her art ❤️🔥😘
Hi Kelela I hope you can read this comment some day and see that this song right here along with the visuals mean so much to me. I’ve been living in my shadow for many years I am 21 years old and have many ambitions after coming back to myself after a time of darkness. I love the visuals here because they show me a life I want to have of my own in a big city where I can have my space that I can call home and just be free in my energy. I’ve been living in the same small town full of closed minded people and abusers alike. This coming January I will make it out of here. Onto bigger and better things for ourselves ❤
love this vibe, can’t wait for the album ❤
Lovely sound. This feels like a 90s rnb music video. I like it 😊. Please check out *MayBe I haven't found love by Xara* .
In my relatively short almost 20 years on this earth, this is EXACTLY the kind of track I wanted to hear released in my lifetime with full awareness what's actually happening.
I might have not loved the whole album, but its soundscapes make me extremely excited and hopeful for the next few years in electronic music. Thank you Kelela.
how many looks you wanna have for the video?
kelela: yes
the looks the vibe, the lyricssss
can't wait for the new album!!!!!!
Song of the summer with sub 1 million views. I’m glad that the girls who get it, just do.
She deserves a Grammy nomination for this era! Best New Artist, Best R&B, Best Everything!!!
NEVER DISSAPOINTED with her since 2011... Constancy , HIGH ends sounds as usual s\o the massive producers behind her as well NGUNZU etc...
she came in the studio knowing she was about to make history
😂
I mean, I'm late but.. this is clearly the vibe we've all been looking for and couldn't really actualize. wow
look at how she ate THAT. the way the visuals just enhance the soundscape in this omg, this is floating on the dancefloor teas
She always knows exactly what to do! Loving this era
She's so perfect 🥹🥹♥️♥️♥️
this video is top tier, it's wild to see her style evolution over the years. 🖤
this song has the same feeling as a chill windy early winter night when it isn't super cold but the air feels fresh and the night feels light idk how else to explain it
Yes♥️ i like this new phase of K. Take me apart was feeling like am introspective and emocional album and this new one with the first 3 Singles seems so different, sound much like club
a song leaked straight from heaven
Kelela is on another level. Her artistry and vision are amazing.
The outro speeding up instead of slowing down or remaining the same pace... Every track! Just every damn track! Magic.
🔥🔥🔥🔥 it’s like clips of memories. Great nights, rollercoaster feels, butterflies, in the moment, just life! Live it to the fullest.
this shit got me floating omg
Kelela you’ve really outdone yourself with Raven. Just finished listening to the album and it’s gonna be on repeat for sure. AOTY for sure
something about this song is so addictive! literally been listening to it over & over & over. so excited for raven!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
High class; sophisticated; gorgeous!
u had me at "it's late, but i'm WIDE AWAKE".
The Whitney Houston spirit was with you while making this. And I love that. We are literally being fed. We don’t deserve you 😭🥺 the talent. The video details. The pure unadulterated sexiness without over-sexualizing the video. It was seductive. Melodic. Poetic. Freeing. THIS IS MUSIC. THANK YOU 🙏🏾
She looks drop dead gorgeous I need her in a movieeeeee
I don't know what we did to deserve Kelela but I am SO GRATEFUL
Her visuals are always something else 😮
LOVE the visuals!😍 giving 90s dance era
She’s so underrated rn. She’s gonna be something big soon.
This mv is divine. I know, and can identify with that hotel room feeling. My fave song rn. Kelela, we've been waiting on you
Kelea,wir lieben dich für deine Musik ❤❤❤
This video nailed the vibe of the song. Yesssss!
I just love the irresistibly groovy night life vibe this song exudes. Extremely excited for "Raven".
One of my favorite tracks of 2023.
The angles, the vocals, the fierceness, the style... our queen is back 💋
She captures this urbane alien aesthetic very well
Definitely my song of summer 2023
Such a good song. I love this 90's vibe.❤
I’m obsessed!!! ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
#1 on the South African Indie Online Music Top 40 Chart for week ending 12 February 2023
Loneliness I see in your eyes
It might just render you blind
Been getting harder these days
Contact we just have to make
You're stressin, that's not allowed
Got nothing holding us down
You're leanin in, I sway
Baby let's dance it away
I feel like she’s from another dimension, a higher being.. I felt so humbled when I saw her last in concert.
the amount of excitement in me since kelela made her comeback is unmatched!