Rag’n’Bone Man: R’n’B в света на поп културата
Дълбоки вокали, които ще ви отвеят от първия изпят тон. На 29. януари преди 36 години е роден Рори Чарлз Греъм, по-познат на публиката с артистичния си псевдоним Rag’n’Bone Man. Този псевдоним избира, вдъхновен от британския сериал „Steptoe and Son“, който разказва историята за бизнес с баща и син с „парцали и кости“. Ако обърнем внимание на главните букви в сценичното име на Греъм, ще забележим вплетено словосъчетанието RnB Man, което далеч не е случайно.
В света на поп културата е трудно да бъдеш запомнен извън рамките на най-известния ти сингъл, в какъвто се превръща песента „Human“ за Rag’n’Bone Man. Той обаче успява да докаже своя талант, превръщайки се в един от най-слушаните съвременни артисти. В музиката си съумява умело да комбинира блус, рок, R&B и инди елементи, които на моменти те карат да подскачаш в ритъм, а в други те разчувстват с дълбоки текстове. Именно на умението на Rag’n’Bone Man да пише собствените си послания към публиката ще насочим внимание ви в днешната статия. Ето кои са 10-те най-докосващи песни на един музикант с главно „М“!
Innocent man
It’s not my crime, why do I have to pay?
I’m doing time, this feeling I can’t shake
I’m lost in the suffering for nothing, my heart don’t understand
It’s beating for an innocent man
Skin
We bleed ourselves in vain
How tragic is this game?
Turn around, I’m holding on to someone
But the love is gone
Carrying the load, with wings that feel like stone
Knowing that we nearly fell so far now
It’s hard to tell
Bitter end
Too many years of battle scars
And now we’re broken
And all the words you said
Been hanging over my head for time
And all of the lines we’ve crossed
They’ve finally bust us open
As a thousand tiny paper cuts of life
As you are
I know we’ve all got our problems
And it’s a blessing that we made it here so far
If you lay here in these arms tonight I promise
I promise to take you, take you as you are
When I was reaching out in the dark
When the streets below just looked so far
When I forgot everything that I was
All I needed was your love
Ego
You musta been
Pushing your way so your headpiece is so big
You so rotten my brother, what a way to live
Top of the food chain, trucking the loose chains
But who are they to say you got no taste
You got no hold bars, mister know it all
A noble star, he don’t know that he won’t go far
Cuz he ain’t no fool, but he’s tucked up at night
With a belly full of “I’m so cold”, and that’s life
Human
Some people got the real problems
Some people out of luck
Some people think I can solve them
Lord heavens above
I’m only human after all
I’m only human after all
Don’t put the blame on me
Don’t put the blame on me
Rain
You can’t fight the rain
Better get to like the rain
Clear skies right now
But tonight the rain will fall down
Drink the rain grow tall a flinch and drink away
You’ll fall prey to the water
Guilty
Give me one good reason
Why I should not be thinking of leaving you now
Maybe I’m just foolish but I can finally see your true color now
You’re blacker than black
You’re colder than ice
And I don’t know who you are
You’re blacker than black
You’re colder than ice
And I don’t know who you are
Wolves
I don’t wanna drown no more
Sick of the same old people
The kind that will sell your soul
Trade it for a shining stone
Ain’t nothing in this life for free
Running from the greatest evil
Finally gone on me
A man’s gotta fight temptation
Odetta
Odetta, don’t you know
That you save this young man’s soul?
And he go watch you getting wise
And you go watch him growing old
You’re always searching for destruction
Now you bare the scars of a path in which you chose
Takes a brave and a stronger kind of woman
It’s far away such a broken man can go
Bonus track
(За повдигане на купонджийския дух)
От Яна Пеева