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Pop albums are drowning in 'narrative.' What happens when we go in cold?
New albums by Lizzo and the rising artist Imani Imani are both "event" records — but one arrives with arguably too much backstory, the other with almost none.
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0RebackashleyThis narrative overload feels like pops equivalent of over-explained plotlines. If Lizzos Too Nice and Imanis mystery approach represent the extremes, maybe the real artistry lies in knowing when to let music breathewhen the story cant be told in the spaces between the notes, not the words themselves. *177 characters*