Relief: A Strippers Classic

This is one of my all time favorite tracks and when I first heard, I really think I listened to it about eighteen times straight. I put it on repeat and my ears drank it in and picked it apart. The title is curious but the music is so serious, so good, so damn delicious. The name of the cut is Relief: A Strippers Classic and it's by the one and only Me'Shell Ndegeocello. It's off of her 2007 release entitled The World Has Made Me The Man of My Dreams and the song is Relief: A Stripper Classic and it just rocks.

It's two songs in one really. The first part of the equation, act one is hot, steamy, vulnerable, and so fucking sexy. The music is hard, the guitar along with the percussion makes the first part of this song steamy, almost confining, like you can't get away, not that you would want to. MeShells whispering just add to the intensity of the track. When she says lines like Here in the dark/Only God can see everything we do and Will you be there/When the drugs run out? just heightens the dark side of things. Act two of the track brings redemption and light. It's so pretty and open, the biting guitar is gone and instead replaced by a lilting piano and an emphatic bassline that smooths the track right out. The overriding question in act two is Will you comfort me?. Well, will you?

This is an amazing track by an amazing artist and it will always remain of my all time favorite songs. Is it something a stripper can work the pole too, I doubt it. Is it something that could make you listen to it at least eightteen times straight? If you're anything like me then absolutely. Enjoy!