Goapele closer album version1/8/2023 ![]() But on record it sounds - how do I put this? - cheap. ![]() ![]() In that environment, the song’s chorus of “you’re so fucking romantic/ I can’t stand it” would have just the right ratio of sex appeal to humor to naughtiness that I could just envision it getting the crowd all hot and bothered, whoops and claps and sly smiles flickering through the room. Obviously, this is one of those songs that belongs in a live setting: smoke swirling, bassist eyes-closed jamming, keys player bobbing along to his thang, and Goapele - the beautiful 26-year-old singer whose emerged from the Bay Area underground to save neo-soul - curling her lips and swaying her hips to the rhythm. For some reason, the song that stays with me from Goapele’s super-sultry debut Even Closer is the not-so-sultry, but purportedly uber-sultry deep soul groove, “Romantic”.
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