{"id":794222,"date":"2019-03-27T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=813191"},"modified":"2019-03-27T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T16:42:00","slug":"nostalgia-is-a-hell-of-a-drug-on-angelica-vilas-more-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/nostalgia-is-a-hell-of-a-drug-on-angelica-vilas-more-in-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia is a Hell of a Drug on Angelica Vila\u2019s \u2018More In The Morning\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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R&B is in nostalgia mode. As the genre continues to experience a long existential crisis<\/a> over where it\u2019s going next, record companies are finding success repackaging the recent past for a murky present, by updating sounds audiences are familiar with (See Summerella\u2019s \u201cDo You Miss It,\u201d<\/a> Chris Brown\u2019s \u201cUndecided\u201d<\/a>); it\u2019s a kind of business as usual approach, if you squint at it. This year, Roc Nation has two stars finding success on radio and the charts through this recently tested strategy for plumbing nostalgia: updating \u201990s and early \u201900s hip-hop samples. The first was Nicole Bus, who used Wu-Tang Clan\u2019s \u201cC.R.E.A.M.\u201d<\/a> and lyrics from the Charmels\u2019 \u201cAs Long as I\u2019ve Got You\u201d to launch her song \u201cYou\u201d onto the airwaves.<\/p>\n

Angelica Vila<\/a>\u2018s \u201cMore In The Morning\u201d pulls from the same playbook, employing a sample of Grace Jones\u2019s 1977 cover of \u201cLa Vie en Rose,\u201d<\/a> which was recognizably sampled on Shyne\u2019s 2001 song \u201cBonnie & Shyne.\u201d<\/a> To the Bronx singer\u2019s credit, she\u2019s exploiting a hole in the marketplace that\u2019s high on meandering slow jams and low on high energy R&B singers who still care about things like choreography. Sensual, bright and simple, \u201cMore In The Morning\u201d sounds indebted to early Jennifer Lopez, and its tropical Cool & Dre-produced beat is well positioned to dominate the spring.<\/p>\n

The song\u2019s video has garnered over a million views in two weeks, appears on Shazam charts throughout the Tri-State area, and is finding early success on radio. Vila was discovered by Fat Joe, who made sure to position her as an heir apparent to R&B\u2019s most recent golden age during an interview with Angie Martinez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think she has the best album, the best debut album from an artist since Mary J. Blige [What\u2019s The<\/em>] 411<\/em>,\u201d Joe emphatically explained. \u201cThat\u2019s just my opinion. As a Latina we ain\u2019t never seen nothing like Angelica Vila<\/a>. That\u2019s just the bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n