![]() Lately, there have been women fighting against that. It’s kind of deeply embedded in our culture for women to feel shame in regards to sex and their bodies. I’ve had my own personal relationship with shame as a Black woman, growing up in church, when it comes to my body and my sexual experience. And in many ways, you advocate for shamelessness on this project. There’s shame in loving our bodies or talking about sex, or shame in being seen as victims or as not powerful. You write a lot about Black women’s relationship with shame. We have all had these conversations in our own way with our own group of people.” “There was nothing I put on the project that I hadn’t experienced, and that’s what I think is drawing people. “These are conversations I’ve had since I was in high school and now in my early 30s,” Sullivan tells me over the phone. 4 on the Billboard 200, the album focuses on mistakes made in darkness and then talked about privately. She retreated home to Philadelphia and unraveled a new yarn of narratives, occasionally battling writer’s block, then returned this past January with the eight songs and six interludes of Heaux Tales. “To be honest,” Precious says on “Precious’ Tale,” “money makes me cum.”Īfter Sullivan’s RCA Records reps suggested she make a concept album, she took a beat, nervous about having to build on the success of 2015’s Reality Show, a collection of towering anecdotes about neglected women, set around the framework of reality TV. Compressed into brief monologues, these admissions pepper Sullivan’s fourth album Heaux Tales, which valorizes the stories of misjudged women in her life who also exist everywhere. ![]() ![]() She wanted real-life testimonies about passion, regret, indecision, fantasy. She told them they could retreat into a closet if they needed to, and then hit record. Read him on our breaking news site,, and our subscriber site, HoustonChronicle.When Jazmine Sullivan decided she wanted to confess, she invited her closest friends to the pulpit and asked them to perform emotional exorcisms in the form of interludes. Jordan covers breaking news in the Houston area.
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