![]() ![]() Yet, the difference between “Not Another Love Song” and “Break My Heart” is the former finds Mai questioning whether what she’s feeling is actually love, while in the latter she understands there’s nothing else that feeling could be mistaken for. Her elevated heart rate calls to mind symptoms of a virus, in that she’s experiencing a love so “contagious” it can’t be contained, as the illness hops from her partner’s heart to hers.Ī similarly daunting experience is described in “ Not Another Love Song,” a Heart On My Sleeve single in which the affliction of love is instead imagined as a sea of emotions ready to drown wayward travelers. To the rhythm and reverb of D’Mile’s pounding drums, Mai’s heart races as she describes being “taken” by a lover she’s fallen for. The first verse of “Break My Heart” begins with that aforementioned anxiety. This is most evident when comparing the writing in each of the album’s other love songs to that of “Break My Heart.” But nowhere else on the record does it arrive at a place that feels as reverent of what it means to commit to a romantic relationship. Not only is “Break My Heart” a love song, it’s the most ingenious of its kind throughout the entire project.Įmbodying the album’s title, this negotiation between anxiety and affection is a theme that runs throughout Heart On My Sleeve. You tell me.” At a pre-release press event for the album, I did listen. When I asked the beatmaker if either of the two tracks he produced on Mai’s new album, Heart On My Sleeve, could be considered a love song, he referenced “Break My Heart.” Immediately recognizing how antithetical to the question the song’s title sounds, he assured me, “Just listen. ![]() Deriving its name from Rihanna’s “We Found Love,” Yellow Diamonds is a series of lyric breakdowns in which VIBE Senior Music Editor Austin Williams celebrates songs that sound like love found in a hopeless mainstream.ĭuring my Yellow Diamonds interview with R&B producer D’Mile, he and I settled on the fact that romantic songwriters are as drawn to his production as he is to their lovestruck lyricism. True love songs are hard to come by these days. ![]() Cynicism is a growing phenomenon in music. ![]()
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