destiny's child - girl

(there goes oppressive white man rob them co like he owns dancehall!)

this is my other favourite off the dc album, more wintery warm plaid and distant sparkle through your frosted r'n'b window. the whole album is so winter-specific it seems inevitable there will be another solo charge by summer - beyonce in the middle with unimpeachable powerful-thighed #1 anthem, michelle (who kills it on fulfilled) to one side with her gospel choir, kelly on the other with some bizarrely wrong-headed misstep that i will secretly love. oh kelly! on "girl" she has a mongy boyfriend who has ruined her self-esteem but b and m are there to offer choice words. they way they sing 'gir-ir-irl' in the chorus is so perfect, as are the pretty ascending strings at the end of every 8-bar and b's exacting amount of melismatic reach for her overdubs. i love dc.