Keri Hilsons we should talk is that his return to music after a 15 -year absence

New York (AP) – The last time Keri Hilson put out an album, Barack Obama was in the second year of his first term as US president, the iPad was released and Instagram was brand new. “On some days I was just as a blink of an eye. But for the most part, yes, it feels like a long time because I waited. I felt quiet, I got stuck and felt in conflict for a while, ‘said the two-time Grammy-nominated artist. “I approach it a lot as I start, because that’s how it feels to me. I have lived nine lives since I was last released … I’m a very different person. ” Hilson, the 42-year-old R&B star known for hits in the late 2000s like ‘Knock You Down’, with Kanye West and Ne-Yo. And “Pretty Girl Rock,” released “We need to talk: Love” on Friday. This is her third album, after 2010’s “No Boys Aplding”, and is the first of a trilogy to be released this year. Led by the cunning single “Bae”, delve into the nine-cut album in romance and introspection. “I feel solved, both with the art and inside the light in the light. So I think it had to find some kind of solution before I felt confident enough to release the work body and release myself to the world again, ‘explains Hilson, who said she never stopped taking up. “There were songs in my past that I felt like it was political movements, songs I didn’t really love that I should sing … I didn’t want to feel that way this time.” One of the songs was a leaked Remix for her popular single “Turnin Me on” in 2009 with Lil Wayne, which peaked at the Billboard Hot 100. Lyrics included a dissfended fans aimed at Beyoncé. Hilson, who has not yet had to drop her introductory album, ‘In a Perfect World’, who debuted on the number 4 on the Billboard Top 200 and number 1 on the top -R & B albums, claimed she was forced to sing the lines, ‘she could sing / but she should take it to the left,’ She says she was threatened that her album may not be released if she refused. Last week, Hilson continued on social media after an interview with IheartMedia’s “The Breakfast Club” after he recalled the incident. While she has talked about it in the past, the singer in the relevant singer in public has publicly mentioned, including the producer Polow Don she was signed. She did not mention singer-songwriter Ester Dean. However, after users on social media marked Dean in posts, she later identified herself. The end of a deceased relationship, a lack of control over her career and the intense, never -ending setback of the Beyhive caused depression and led to her refuge of music. During her time away, the Georgia native embarked on a journey of healing that included therapy, journal and spiritual refugees. “There were some perspectives I needed to expose … falsehoods, beliefs that I kind of picked up or inherited,” says Hilson, who went to acting. Her return included very selective press, avoiding what she describes as ‘new media’ stores such as social media -driven platforms, saying that monetization can reward the promotion of gossip or encourage the creation of lies. The ferocious blog culture of the 2010s was a driving force in the flames of her perceived beef with Beyoncé, who has never commented on the situation in public. Hilson “can definitely operate and navigate within the area of ​​R&B. She has a fan base,” says Keithan Samuels, founder of the popular website ratedrnb.com. “Her core fan base has grown up … She can navigate in this new era of R&B where there is a lot of diversity and sound.” ‘We need to talk: Love:’ We must speak: ‘Love’, made by the non -official writing camps and records created over the years, deliver vulnerable and flirting lyrics about a wide variety of R&B sounds. She wrote on all the one song and avoided the current R&B trends that developed during her absence, referring to individuality as a key to her early success. She also believes algorithms have created a culture of musical homogeny, rather than creativity. There are typical “Mrs Keri Baby” songs like The Fun, Pop & B Styled “Somethin (Bout U)”, but there’s also the introspective “Naked (love),” and “Say it”, in which she expresses, “I won’t say that I love you /” Til you say you love me. ” “I am a lot of ‘girl boss’ in my life, right? The bedroom is “screaming” on the sexy slow jam, while the bright “what” also drives with beautifully stacked harmonies. Lopez and Britney Spears include. Samuels of Ratedrnb.com says this project is clearly of the new -found control that Hilson has during her career. Hilson says she is still open for writing for other artists and the giving of songs that may not fit into her current musical era. Fans’ returns her return. Hilson. ___ Follow the associated press journalist Gary Gerard Hamilton at @GaryGhamilton on all his social media platforms.