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Riff: Leon Bridges – “Brown Skin Girl”

Jun 23, 2015

Brown skin girl with the white pearls ’round her neck/Brown skin girl, let me hold you close under the white moon/Cause baby, I’m ready and you know that I’m waiting on you

from Brown Skin Girl lyrics by Leon Bridges

No question about it, the retro soul tag is firmly in place and they’re not ashamed about it, brandishing it proudly even. The voice is buttery, but the lack of originality is deafening, enough to snuff out the lyrics indefinitely. Even if they did break through all they’d sing is the same old song.

 

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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