{"id":792084,"date":"2019-01-16T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=779780"},"modified":"2019-01-16T09:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T16:17:13","slug":"hear-dawns-sensual-new-song-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-dawns-sensual-new-song-sauce\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Dawn\u2019s Sensual New Song \u2018Sauce\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/DAWN-Press-Photo-4-Robert-ArnoldW.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dawn celebrates sexuality on her atmospheric new song \u201cSauce.\u201d Cole M.G.N. (Christine &amp; the Queens, Ariel Pink) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hudson-mohawke\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hudson-mohawke\" data-tag=\"hudson-mohawke\">Hudson Mohawke<\/a> (Kanye West, Drake) co-produced the single, which highlights the electronic R&amp;B singer\u2019s upcoming fifth LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/dawn.lnk.to\/newbreed\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>new breed<\/em><\/a>, out January 25th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019ve been a good girl all week, so I can dirty them sheets from Friday to Sunday,\u201d Dawn croons on the track over a reverb-swathed guitar line, snaking trap beat, warbling synths and faded soul singer samples. \u201cIt\u2019s the weekend, and I\u2019m ready for you\/You don\u2019t need to be gentle; I can take all of you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a statement, Dawn noted that \u201cSauce\u201d is \u201cabout women taking pride in their prowess, and about being raised to celebrate my skin.\u201d She continues, <strong>\u201c<\/strong>I lost focus of that when so many men degraded and disrespected my brown skin. \u2018Sauce\u2019 is about being bathed in your own beauty, being sexy for you. The new breed of women are unapologetic about sex and the way they choosing to express themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The singer also described the #metoo movement as another inspiration behind the album. \u201cI never saw myself as a victim but have survived assault, and I thought hiding it made me strong,\u201d she says. \u201cBut as I\u2019ve watched all these amazing, strong women speak on their experiences, I found courage in speaking on my story. This record is for all of us. We are the <em>new breed<\/em>. We are strong, unapologetic, and the future is female.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>new breed<\/em> follows Dawn\u2019s 2016 LP,\u00a0<em>Redemption<\/em>, the final installment of her \u201cHeart Trilogy,\u201d which also included 2013\u2019s <em>Goldenheart<\/em> and 2015\u2019s <em>Blackheart<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dawn-new-song-sauce-hudson-mohawke-779780\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dawn celebrates sexuality on her atmospheric new song \u201cSauce.\u201d Cole M.G.N. (Christine &amp; the Queens, Ariel Pink) and Hudson Mohawke (Kanye West, Drake) co-produced the single, which highlights the electronic R&amp;B singer\u2019s upcoming fifth LP, new breed, out January 25th. \u201cI\u2019ve been a good girl all week, so I can dirty them sheets from Friday [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 13:15:22","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}