Teyana Taylor returns with a sexy project and with her unique label with which she continues to demonstrate her talent as a songwriter and musical director.

We are talking about ́1-800-One-Night ́, a video clip inspired by the hotlines of the 90s with a caption of old videotapes, with a touch of humor and sensuality under the sensual rhythm R&B of the artist.

This hotline is part of The Album, her most recent album made as a message of love and protest for her community and the search for freedom as an artist. The 23 tracks of the album feature her husband Iman Shumpert along with other great talents like Big Sean, Rick Ross, Erykah Badu, Quavo, Kehlani, and Missy Elliott.

Teyana Taylor- 1800-One-Night Official Video

Spike Tee brings us under the production of Taylor, David Drake, DJ Camper, and their women’s team The Aunties, a life scenario inspired by the adult phone lines of the 90s. Teyana, the comedian Vena Excell, singer Nzings Imani, the actress and model Japanese faces, and producer and creative director, Coco Gilbert, appear as a group of sensual telephone operators talking about spicy things with their clients humorously and sarcastically in their creative and girly cubicles with vintage outfits, printed shirts, big eyelashes, big hoops – very 90s- girl magazines, makeup, telephones, and retro details.

After the two-minute introduction, with a sensual set of silk and lingerie, glossy lips, big hoops and golden touches, Taylor shows us her sensuality by dancing on a phone booth under a play of lights and spicy lyrics and her seductive feminine voice. She lets her man know her desire to see him and enjoy a night together, “Rule me, own me, control me, I’m ready, babe, You only get one night, so do me right. And baby, give it to me, whoa, yeah, My body’s in need…. 1-800-One-Nite, you can call anytime ”.

Finally, the R&B song ends with on-screen filming of a commercial by the sexy gals for its adult business in sensual black lingerie pieces and with a humorous final touch with Teyana walking away from the set reminding us that at the time of recording her video she was pregnant.

Her return has been powerful and charming. This girl has earned the respect of the industry not only by being named Video Director of the Year at the 2020 BET Virtual Awards but also by offering support to the Black Lives Matter movement with her single “Still” where under a performance she did not stay in silent about the abuses and injustices to her community.

With The Album, Taylor has connected us with the golden age of the nineties under her R&B tracks and we are sure that her next video clips will continue to be talked about under her talented direction and versatile style.

Words by Cami Martinez

Graphics by Lucy Gifford

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Over the past decade, the significance of streaming platforms has increased astronomically. While you would expect that the majority of Generation X attempted to keep CDs alive for most of the 2010s, Millenials and Gen Z clearly aren’t willing to commit to similar ideologies moving forward. Why waste time when it’s all in the palm of your hand? Not only do streaming services provide data-based suggestions for your specified taste, more importantly – it gives you the ability to discover music from wherever and whenever, at the single press of a button.

However, this hadn’t been the case with the catalogue of R&B Princess Aaliyah. Since her tragic passing in 2001, her music had been strangely inaccessible. Despite her faithful fanbase, it seemed almost impossible to access her discography, especially since the development of streaming services – but why?

I guess, unsurprisingly, because of some shady business behind closed doors. Uncle of Aaliyah’s and creator of Blackground Records, Barry Hankerson – had refused nearly all of the deceased songstress’s discography the ability to stream legally. Back in 2016, Complex confirmed that – because Hankerson doesn’t own the rights to ‘Age Ain’t Nothing But A Number’, Aaliyah’s debut album continued to be the only piece of her catalogue available to stream and/or purchased digitally.

Aaliyah’s further two albums, chart-topping One in A Million and the posthumous self-titled record, Aaliyah, were still nonexistent within the streaming cosmos. While Pitchfork disclosed in 2017 that an avid fan made an effort to add her final album to digitally purchasable platforms, it was deleted almost instantly. And quite to my surprise, her stans have yet to find a way to legally stream her discography.

And as time went on, I realised that the larger issue remained, that Aaliyah’s legacy was on the path of uncertainty. While Aaliyah remained a fashion symbol for the new generation within the world of social media, the music business has been attempting to coexist within an internet influenced environment for over a decade now. And after the evolution has been realised, if her catalogue was still unavailable to the digital world, her discography would be virtually abolished. Eventually going from the symbol of 90s streetwear and R&B goddess to sentimental concern within pop culture all in the space of 20 years.

But on November 29th 2019, via his own private twitter account – Barry Hankerson announced that he was finally relinquishing the rights to ‘baby girl’s discography, and 18 years after her passing her music would be accessible on platforms such as Spotify, TIDAL, Apple Music, and Amazon Prime.

Whether Hankerson realised the importance and/or seriousness of streaming services within present-day, or just noticed his royalty checks weren’t as big as they used to, regardless – her much adored catalogue will fittingly be available on her 41st birthday, January 16th 2020. An encouraging and somewhat surprising way to start the new decade – with positivity within the notoriously unethical macrocosm of the music business.

Words by Charlie Miller

Graphics by Katie Janes

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