Solange's Seat
What sounds an ethereal creature with a soulful tone? If you guessed singer/songstress and business mogul Solange Knowles, then you are correct. Solange has been making music since 2001, singing the theme song for Disney Channel's animated TV show The Proud Family with #DestinysChild. The project was unapologetically #blackgirlmagic since the show was predominantly black cartoons.
Life and art would repeat itself as she released her full album since 2008. Her coveted album, A Seat at the Table, touched the world in unapologetically black "I'm not sorry" notion that her big sister, Beyoncé declared in her album Lemonade. Solange's album couldn't have come into our laps in a better time considering the number of accounts of police brutality and racial injustice. On a interlude track "Tina Taught Me," the power sisters' mom, Tina Knowles spoke powerful words of encouragement to celebrate black culture. "Because you celebrate black culture does not mean that you don't like white culture or that you're putting it down, Tina says. This album says "its just taking pride in [black culture]. The album reinforcing its okay to be proud of who I am, how I look, and love who I am. If you're a black girl like me, this album is needed. If you're not African American, you can express the same pride in this album. For the fact that this album encourages that it is also okay to believe that my life matters. Black Twitter is in standing applause and obsessed over the album for weeks. It was placed number one on the Billboard 200 chart. A Seat at the Table (ASATT), Solange says actually what every black girl is thinking but may or may not have all the confidence to say within the state of racially demeaning society. Another song of the album, "F.U.B.U" says echoes and chants what black women is thinking. "They get so much from us, then forget us," she sings on the track. So many black women have been teased or shamed for being born with big lips, a large butt, their hair, their speech etc. When someone else does it, its suddenly cool. Whenever that happens, girls in the black community become insecure of what make them beautiful.
Solange ( the G.O.A.T) used her voice to shed light on issues that we have as a community are still to trying to overcome. Within the album, she is honest and personal. She gives a reminder to every WOC that we are all stronger together.
Advice of the Day:
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them,"-Maya Angelou
