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“It’s just a superb feeling.” Summer Walker is describing soul music, a subgenre of gospel and blues she desires to further explore. On wax, she tapped into it with the discharge of her 2019 EP Clear, taking a more stripped down, worship-like approach than she has on her hottest works. The trouble provided listeners with insight into the world by which she’d slightly exist.

“It’s just a superb feeling.” Summer Walker is describing soul music, a subgenre of gospel and blues she desires to further explore, when she utters those words. On wax, she tapped into it with the discharge of her 2019 EP Clear, taking a more stripped down, worship-like approach than she has on her hottest works. The trouble provided listeners with insight into the world by which she’d slightly exist.

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She admits soul is her “favorite form of music” and “the one which resonates” along with her essentially the most, however the singer-songwriter believes others don’t view it as profitable enough to deal with. “I just don’t get to do it as much because that’s not what you receives a commission for, ?” she says. She also thinks power players are reluctant to assist “put it on the radio and offer you awards like they used to back within the 2000s.”

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