{"id":484296,"date":"2019-04-04T12:26:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=817920"},"modified":"2019-04-04T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:26:33","slug":"hear-anderson-paak-smokey-robinson-detail-highs-and-lows-of-love-on-new-song-make-it-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-anderson-paak-smokey-robinson-detail-highs-and-lows-of-love-on-new-song-make-it-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Anderson .Paak, Smokey Robinson Detail Highs and Lows of Love on New Song \u2018Make It Better\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/anderson-paak-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/smokey-robinson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_smokey-robinson\" data-tag=\"smokey-robinson\">Smokey Robinson<\/a> lends his vocals to Anderson .Paak\u2019s soulful new song, \u201cMake It Better,\u201d set to appear on the musician\u2019s upcoming album, <em>Ventura<\/em>, out April 12th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMake It Better\u201d boasts a throwback groove of dusty and punchy bass fleshed out with slick guitars, silky strings and more futuristic synth flourishes. The lyrics find .Paak detailing the ups and downs of a relationship, but always striving to make things work, while Robinson provides some tender back-up harmonies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMake It Better\u201d arrives with an Andy Hines-directed music video as well. The clip captures the emotional tumult of the track, alternating between scenes of .Paak and his partner fighting with, then fawning over each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Ventura<\/em> follows .Paak\u2019s 2018 album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-anderson-paaks-vivacious-oxnard-strives-to-be-a-cali-hip-hop-epic-758409\/\"><em>Oxnard<\/em><\/a>, and along with Robinson, it will feature guest appearances from Andr\u00e9 3000, Jazmine Sullivan, Brandy, Nate Dogg and Lalah Hathaway. The musician will embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/anderson-paak-new-album-ventura-tour-dates-801183\/\">North American tour<\/a> in support of the record May 17th at the Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/anderson-paak-smokey-robinson-new-song-make-it-better-817920\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smokey Robinson lends his vocals to Anderson .Paak\u2019s soulful new song, \u201cMake It Better,\u201d set to appear on the musician\u2019s upcoming album, Ventura, out April 12th. \u201cMake It Better\u201d boasts a throwback groove of dusty and punchy bass fleshed out with slick guitars, silky strings and more futuristic synth flourishes. The lyrics find .Paak detailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 15:04:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}