On the freaky, sensual ‘BLACK STAR,’ Amaarae has never sounded more free

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BLACK STAR makes it clear that she is tired of waiting for everyone else to catch up. Indeed, intentional or not, Amaarae performs her own form of countercolonial activation by uniting the dance music of a disconnected community. “I’ll take my time / Soak in all the feels and all the vibes.”Soaking in all the feels and the vibes is the animating principle of BLACK STAR. I am … the Black Star.”The Black Star, as a figure, comes across as an assertive, unshackled Black woman, “controversial” primarily because she is so free. She has always made dance music but more as a fusionist fever dream, a singularity sucking all things into an Amaarae vortex.