Greentea Peng, the talented neo soul artist kidnaps us from the first images of her new clip Nah It Ain't The Same. Images and ideas jostle at the speed of sound.
Music is an everyday escape
From the outset, the London muse sets the scene for a continuous hypnotic flow.The lyrics speak of waking up with this helplessness, this uncertainty that only burdens poverty.Greentea Peng explains that being a man today is so hard! It will never be the same as before , she says. Is she talking about the world before Covid 19? It is a question of desire, of faith, of possession. She claims to possess nothing but time and memories.The clip associates the memory with a form of inner journey, we understand that for the artist the narcotics represent an escape in everyday life. Plant nature dresses the scenes with the palette of Douanier Rousseau. The Creole knotted scarf, the postcard, the red fruits of passion, stamp stamps are all small stopovers to distant destinations. The artist does not fit into the norm. Not only by its look, tattoos that recall the motifs of Berber or Kabyle nomads, African scarifications … But also by the mystical power of its sculptural silhouette that walks from London parks to the cities of Mexico, cradle of pre-Columbian civilizations. Is it an ode to Mayan cultures, which the author invokes in her lyrics?
Innovative style
The fusion of hip hop with soul and reggae is blissful. The journey becomes mystical. The warm voice, with pronounced cracks, bewitches us. The heady bass line unrolls the rapped vocals, just as much as the rhythm of the drums punctuates the phrasing. In the last scene, the voice softens, the double bass, the piano and the drums impulse a jazz à la Sade. This introduces a comforting, unexpected note, almost a glimmer of hope in response to the ambient neurasthenia. With subtlety, the clip integrates the music of the surrounding noises of everyday life, from birdsong to car traffic. The album is announced for this year, it presages a new addiction to this troubling musicality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CzNP_sKWK4
