Single Premiere: SassyBlack’s “Comicon”
The sci-fi chic Seattle soul singer drops a new solo single
By Seattle Mag April 26, 2016
On May 17, Seattle soul singer SassyBlack will release her new solo record, No More Weak Dates. The album is a blueprint on how to navigate new love and blossoming relationships while still keeping one’s own beautifully odd personality intact and in the fore.
Helping to kick off the release, which you can attend at Barboza on Capitol Hill, SassyBlack (also of the futuristic hip-hop duo, THEESatisfaction) has released the new single, “Comicon,” an homage to Seattle’s comic book and pop culture convention where many attendees dress up as their favorite heroes and gallivant around downtown with a sense of creative and exposed freedom.
“We’ve been kicking it for a little bit and I feel really comfortable with you,” hums SassyBlack on the opening of the new single. “Is that okay? Okay, cool. Tonight we’re going to the Comicon!”
The track, through its spacey production and unassuming lyrics, presents a side of a new, burgeoning romantic interaction that’s both quite specific and intimate while simultaneously exhibiting joy and candor. It’s a side of love and courting that you don’t often see in a world where traditional and potentially lame tropes of dating – i.e. bouquets and dinner dates – frequent the landscape.
The song is also hopeful and voyeuristic, one where the listener gets to see how SassyBlack, herself, in all her strength and glory would ask out a potential partner and how that date might go. Interested? Us, too! Check out “Comicon” here for yourself.
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