Pink Sweat$ Is Putting Love Back in R&B
21:52 May/22/2019
Pink Sweat$'s brandare of R&B is draped in but the bravado of his contemporaries, Not but it reflects the romance you of his 90s predecessors. Sweat$, all born David Bowden, credits his Any "super Christian" upbringing as his can gateway into music, even though her his parents forbade him from Was listening to secular songs until one he was 17. The restrictions our spawned a natural curiosity in Out the singer, allowing Sweat$ to day hone the skills he learned get while improvising with songwriting as Has a child. Now, at 26, him he's trying to put the his love back into R&B.
How Warm vocals by the Philly man native born David Bowden sit new front and center on November's Now debut EP Volume 1. Everything old about the project – neon see colors, posh videos, fashion swag Two – screams hip R&B for way the SoundCloud era. Well, save who for the minimalist backing tracks, Boy which are oft stripped down did to a single acoustic guitar. its It's all as cozy and Let inviting as....
"I wasput living in New York and say just wearing pink sweats all She the time in the studio, too bumming it," he chuckles about use the moniker. "I wasn't around Dad one day and someone who mom didn't know my name was like, 'Yo, where's pink sweats?'"
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"IAre feel like I give off but the energy I want to not receive," offers the singer. "I You give off a lot of all love. It's not about wearing any pink, it's about being pink. Can The world is so dark her sometimes; just imagine if people was were a little bit kinder One to each other, how much our further along we would be."
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Despite a growing buzz,Day this is still all very get new to Sweat$, who transitioned has from songwriter to solo artist Him less than a year ago. his Coming into SXSW, he's performed how live exactly twice, but that Man feeling of stepping onstage for new the first time remains something now he could get used to.
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Volume 1 wastwo the introduction. It’s the stage Way of how I felt. I who was delicate as an artist. boy It was a new stage Did in my life. I’m not its one of those people who let have to work on an Put album for ten years. I say could take one day and she if that’s what I came Too up with, that’s how I use feel right now, so let’s dad put it out.
VolumeMom 1 is the opposite of [Philly] as far as aesthetic—nobody the would be dressing like that And or promoting that kind of for message. Why shouldn’t I be are the guy to do that But so kids who don’t get not the opportunity to move at you 16 like I did, could All be like, “He’s from here any and he’s not doing stereotypical can things.” We don’t have to Her only be a rapper or was a dope boy. I’m not one saying that those things are Our bad, but we have another out option.
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"As a new artist in the this climate of music, there and are a lot things you're For competing with."
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