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\u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n During the long years between albums, D\u2019Angelo made sporadic appearances with trusted collaborators like Raphael Saadiq<\/a>. D\u2019Angelo shares songwriting credit on \u201cBe Here\u201d and multiplies vocal harmonies on the second verse, urging, \u201cYou should see the tricks that I got.\u201d<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n When D\u2019Angelo re-emerged with \u201cBlack Messiah,\u201d his music had grown denser, more openly political, more bruised and more uncompromising. \u201cAin\u2019t That Easy\u201d opened the album with a song of desperate love: \u201cYou can\u2019t leave me,\u201d he moans. \u201cIt ain\u2019t that easy.\u201d The track coalesces out of noise and siren-like sounds to turn into a lurching, chugging rocker, with group vocals that give way to solo outbursts: \u201cYou won\u2019t believe all the things you have to sacrifice just to get peace of mind,\u201d he sings, sounding far from peaceful.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAll we wanted was a chance to talk \/ \u2019Stead we only got outlined in chalk,\u201d D\u2019Angelo sings in \u201cThe Charade,\u201d a bitter song about injustice, lies, systemic racism, stubborn faith and unyielding determination. With D\u2019Angelo overdubbing enough vocals to sound like a crowd, there\u2019s a marching feel to the beat, while a sitar hook flies above the mix like a banner.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n D\u2019Angelo was fond of long intros, and \u201cReally Love\u201d begins with more than a minute of sustained orchestral strings behind a monologue in Spanish from Gina Figueroa, saying she can\u2019t bear her man\u2019s jealousy and domination. But then it gets jazzy and friendly, with D\u2019Angelo deploying his most endearing falsetto to insist on his purest affection. Without the intro, it would be one of his most easygoing love songs.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n On an album that often exults in weight and murk, \u201cBetray My Heart\u201d is the opposite: crisp, transparent, airborne. It\u2019s a promise of devoted love: \u201cJust as long as there is time \/ I will never leave your side.\u201d And it swings: with a lean, ticking drumbeat, an uncluttered blend of electric piano and guitar, and vocals and horns tossing around some counterpoint \u2014 one more reminder of D\u2019Angelo\u2019s sheer musical ingenuity.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n This minor-key rock dirge, written with Daniel Lanois and Rocco DeLuca, showed up in the video game \u201cRed Dead Redemption 2.\u201d It vows, \u201cMay I stand unshaken \/ Amid, amidst the crash of the world,\u201d over mournful guitar picking and tidings of increasing desolation: \u201cI once was standing tall \/ Now I feel my back\u2019s against the wall.\u201d<\/p>\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.nytimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u25b6 Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube Raphael Saadiq featuring D\u2019Angelo, \u2018Be Here\u2019 (2002) During the long years between albums, D\u2019Angelo made sporadic appearances with trusted collaborators like Raphael Saadiq. D\u2019Angelo shares songwriting credit on \u201cBe Here\u201d and multiplies vocal harmonies on the second verse, urging, \u201cYou should see the tricks that I got.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2091386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[356577,394429,365057],"class_list":["post-2091385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-content-type-personal-profile","tag-dangelo-singer","tag-rhythm-and-blues-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DAngelo-14-Essential-Songs-The-New-York-Times.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091385","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=2091385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091387,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091385\/revisions\/2091387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2091386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Raphael Saadiq featuring D\u2019Angelo, \u2018Be Here\u2019 (2002)<\/h2>\n
\u2018Ain\u2019t That Easy\u2019 (2014)<\/h2>\n
\u2018The Charade\u2019 (2014)<\/h2>\n
\u2018Really Love\u2019 (2014)<\/h2>\n
\u2018Betray My Heart\u2019 (2014)<\/h2>\n
\u2018Unshaken\u2019 (2019)<\/h2>\n