Blood Orange Negro Swan 2025-10-03 Ben Moody (guitar

Ben Moody (guitar

The music adds a context of grandeur to Coyne's lyrics of Zen and the cosmic joke

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maybe his fall from grace is because we ultimately can get by with just one song about cars and girls

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Blood Orange Negro Swan 2025-10-03 Ben Moody (guitarThe fourth Blood Orange album begins with a temperate rolling groove suited perfectly for Dev Hynes' gentle falsetto. Just as the song starts to resemble something akin to Stevie Wonder's "Power Flower" as an imagined Smokey Robinson collaboration, its refrain of "First kiss was the floor," delivered with deceptively wistful style, tugs the attentive listener into Hynes' marginalized and antagonized existence as a black male with characteristics