As a successful musician, it is not entirely uncommon for you to be lived by your environment. Busy tour schedules and overcrowded agendas dictate where you need to be, without being able to influence it. This also happened to singer India.Arie. In the fall of 2009, something snapped in her head and she decided to take matters into her own hands. All this can be followed in the CD booklet in which
… she describes this process in detail in a style that is about as curvy as the title SongVersation. In short, she would do this record exactly the way she wanted, or else she would leave the music world. Fortunately she got her way, because SongVersation has once again become a beautiful soul album. The inner struggle that she uses this time as an excuse for her music, follows the relationship problems and the ongoing suffering in the world that she used as motivation on her previous two CDs. Ultimately, the biggest change is probably in the mind of India, Arie, as her beautiful sound has remained virtually unchanged. (AD)more
