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Ghanaian-American singer Amaarae releases her\u00a0third studio album <\/span>BLACK STAR,<\/span><\/em> a 13-track composition – which shows us that Africans do coke too.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Back in April, when Amaarae announced her <\/span>BLACK STAR<\/span><\/em> album, Amaarae (born Ama Serwah Genfi) was reportedly the first female Ghanaian artist to perform solo at Coachella. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Making history, she danced in front of the Ghanaian flag, dressed in all black as featuring a medley of Ghanaian artists La M\u00eame Gang, Eazzy, Joey B, Asakaa (collective) and more within her DJ setlist. She also got her hair shaved that evening on stage \u2013 a power move that had people raving. Amaarae was setting the <\/span>BLACK STAR<\/span><\/em> agenda mere months ahead of her August 8th drop \u2013 right then and there.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Breaking into global stardom with her hit \u2018Sad Girlz Luv Money\u2019 featuring Moliy off of her debut album, <\/span>The Angel You Don\u2019t Know<\/span><\/em>, Amaarae made her mark and five years later, <\/span>BLACK STAR<\/span><\/em> is a far cry from that.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
As intentional as it is experimental, it\u2019s an ode to pop music, recontextualized under an interdiasporic study of different African sounds, beats and tempos.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
This album is a smorgasbord of high grade Afropop futurism, all lying somewhere between the hedonism of luxury, sex, and self-indulgent euphoria. \u2018Stuck Up\u2019 and \u2018Starkilla\u2019 featuring Bree Runway and Starkillers start us off on a high-energy note with the hook repeating the lines \u2018Ketamine, Coke and Molly.\u2019 Think, Brat Summer\u2013 but it\u2019s Harmattan, and we\u2019re at a club in Accra.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Highly anticipated Naomi Campbell feature on \u2018ms60\u2019 felt very on-brand. With adlibs dusted throughout, \u2018Pivot pose \/ Go \/ Bitch \/ Serve\u2019, the supermodel gives directions on the runway that is this ego-feeding track with a vicious gqom bassline before finishing with the cunty lines<\/span> “They call me a bitch, a villain \/ Controversial diva, no \/ I am, the Black Star \/ Pose.”<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
PinkPantheress joins Amaarae on \u2018Kiss Me Thru The Phone pt.2\u2019, a nod to Soulja Boy\u2019s 2008 hit, and all about a slightly obsessive crush that switches between all-consuming yearning and dark fantasizing \u2013 coming alive with clubhouse melodies in the end.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Carrying a more baile funk feel, standout track title \u2018Dove Cameron\u2019, (bearing the name of Disney star), and \u2018100DRUM\u2019 are both produced by Alejandro, the same producer responsible for \u2018Jersey Luv\u2019 by GROOVY, accompanied by Kyu Steed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
BLACK STAR offers a soundscape of techno and futuristic synths on woven with elements of baile funk, highlife, Jersey club, Afrobeats, house, amapiano, azonto, asorkpor, hiplife and more \u2013 a message clearly conveyed through \u2018Girlie-Pop!,\u2019 continuing to give us this tasting menu of techno sound.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
BLACK STAR echoes a familiar spirit of ostentation, sexual decadence but also vulnerability. The luxury, the opulence, the sapphic encounters she details as she oscillates between love and lust \u2013 are all seemingly ever-present by singing <\/span>“I\u2019m blacking out at the dealership. I want the Hummer \/ Suck her soul away from her,”<\/span><\/em> on \u2018Dream Scenario’ featuring R&B and funk legend Charlie Wilson.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
Amaarae teeters a thin line of androgyny as a key element in her artistic expression, exploring sexual freedom and radical self-acceptance \u2013 despite many of Ghana\u2019s anti-LGBT laws. BLACK STAR feels like a cultural reclamation of sorts \u2013 a homecoming, reigniting a synergy that had previously been strained.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
The final track, \u2018FREE THE YOUTH\u2019 samples Ghanaian hiplife track \u2018Deeba\u2019, with flirty intro vocals in Twi followed by a deeper message of resilience and unashamed self acceptance for the next generation:<\/span> “Day by Day by \/ I had to get it \/ Like fuck how you feel.”<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
With BLACK STAR, Amaarae reframes reframes techno, cyberpunk and pop music all under the African lens, but still maintaining her signature sound giving birth to something experimental yet calculated; a boundary-pushing catalogue of African dance music.<\/span> \u201cIt\u2019s time to take back the conversation and remind Black people that dance music is ours,\u201d<\/span><\/em> she says.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.newwavemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ghanaian-American singer Amaarae releases her\u00a0third studio album BLACK STAR, a 13-track composition – which shows us that Africans do coke too. Back in April, when Amaarae announced her BLACK STAR album, Amaarae (born Ama Serwah Genfi) was reportedly the first female Ghanaian artist to perform solo at Coachella. Making history, she danced in front of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1950118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1950117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Amaarae-Reclaims-Dance-Music-With-New-Album-BLACK-STAR.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}