Ceaira Wilson
MC 301 Contributor
From underground to mainstream, Luke James and his self-titled album is taking the R&B world on a journey of love.
On Sept. 23, the New Orleans, La. native’s self-titled debut album, “Luke James” was released. Jame’s began his career by singing back up for R&B singer Tyrese. Later in his career he began writing for popular artists like Chris Brown (“Crawl”), Justin Bieber (“That Should be Me”) and many other artist.
In 2011, James released his first mixtape, “#Luke”, with his critically acclaimed single, “I Want You”, which earned him Best R&B Performance nomination at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. He released his second mixtape entitled, “Whispers in the Dark” in 2012.
His current album gives a narrative of how complex his love life was at the time, and what better way to share it than through an album.
“Dancing in the Dark” starts the album off as a great love story. It is about him and his love interest going through the journey of falling in love, and accepting all that she has to offer. He also explains how he is going to love her forever by saying “I’m reaching for the parts you’re afraid to show.”
The song “Exit Wound” is the climax of the album. In this song he expresses how the love of his life broke his heart and left him. With lyrics, “This ain’t a heart it’s just an exit wound that just won’t close”, James is saying that he can never love again because she took his heart.
“Insane” ends the love rollercoaster with him depressed but accepting what has happened. He now realizes that forcing a relationship with his love interest is not what’s best for him. The lyrics, “How can we want something so bad, that’s so bad for us?” explains the whole ending of his love story.
Overall, I loved this album. I believe it tells the story of his roller-coaster love life. This album will be appealing to people who love R&B music with a Hip-Hop mix to it. He played with the beats in a way where you can feel the emotion of the song just through the instrumental. My top three favorite songs on this album are “Options”, “Exit Wounds”, and “’Dancing in the Dark”.
Watch for Luke James to bring his musical talents to Jackson State University on Oct. 31, 2014 for the BET College Tour.
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