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It's me tapping into romance and Donny Hathaway and soul music and groove like The Gap Band.
"Begin Again" is the pathway from What's Your Pleasure? into That! Feels Good!. It's where this album started—and was written over Zoom between LA and Hackney. The lyric "Why does all the purest love get filtered through machines?" probably came from that—I'm sick to death of Zooms! But if you think further into it, it's about being a prisoner to screens and it becoming so habitual and wanting to escape that, but not being able to.
I was definitely leaning into a more R&B moment: This pulled from Sade, Madlib, Drake.
Longtime U.K. pop favorite Jessie Ware completes her pivot from soulful melancholy to dancefloor liberation on That! Feels Good!, an album that more than earns two exclamations points in its title thanks to the absurdly good vibes it delivers over 10 tracks of funky, lush disco. From the swirling rush of "Begin Again" to the luscious romance (for one night, at least) of "These Lips," Ware deftly dances on the line separating wry camp and sensual earnestness.