{"id":491149,"date":"2019-10-11T07:54:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=897769"},"modified":"2019-10-11T07:54:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T13:54:09","slug":"hear-jada-kingdoms-breezy-blissful-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-jada-kingdoms-breezy-blissful-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Jada Kingdom\u2019s Breezy, Blissful \u2018Finally\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/JADA9973skin.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The Jamaican singer Jada Kingdom broke out with \u201cBest You Ever Had (B.Y.E.H.),\u201d a bouncy track about a cruelly one-sided relationship: \u201cYou tore my heart out and threw it in the bin,\u201d she sang, \u201cbut I still wanna bless you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The narrator of \u201cFinally\u201d is in a better place. \u201cYou put me in a mood \u2014 me like it,\u201d the singer announces at the start of the track. \u201cFinally\u201d is a warm club record without a hint of tension. The flickering beat, with filigreed guitar sliding behind stabbing piano, comes courtesy of Khorder Soul, who also produced previous Kingdom songs like \u201cLong Term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kingdom has flitted through styles on a series of recent singles: Listeners will find playful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dancehall\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dancehall\" data-tag=\"dancehall\">dancehall<\/a> like \u201cBanana,\u201d head-nod reggae on \u201cBest You Ever Had,\u201d and something close to the opulence of Eighties Quiet Storm on \u201cMedicine.\u201d \u201cI got my sound from Nina Simone, a little bit of Erykah Badu, and jazz music,\u201d Kingdom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2019\/05\/23\/jada-kingdom-is-jamaicas-alternative-voice-of-pain\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said earlier<\/a> this year. \u201cI mixed them \u2014 and then added the Jamaican thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jada-kingdom-finally-897769\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamaican singer Jada Kingdom broke out with \u201cBest You Ever Had (B.Y.E.H.),\u201d a bouncy track about a cruelly one-sided relationship: \u201cYou tore my heart out and threw it in the bin,\u201d she sang, \u201cbut I still wanna bless you.\u201d The narrator of \u201cFinally\u201d is in a better place. \u201cYou put me in a mood [&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":["post-491149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-21 23:59:31","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\/491149","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=491149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}