#17 - Tinashe - Flame
I don't have a whole lot to say about our #17 artist, Tinashe. Unlike previous R&B acts on the countdown, she's not an artist I care terribly much more. Her most recent album features a lot of unnecessary swearing and bizarre dark song topics, and her most recent single is amusingly titled Me So Bad. The album Joyride is now two years in the making and still has only spawned two singles, so I can't really touch on that either. As it stands, I was scrolling through the music channels on TV and landed on this song on VH1.
Flame was released back in the spring of '17 and failed to chart in the US. It features a genre-shift for the singer, who usually sticks to rap and R&B on her songs. Her singing voice reminds me of a less annoying, more intelligent Keri Hilson. The song is about a relationship that has seen better days, and Tinashe's attempt to re-ignite the passion. The video features her singing to her disenchanted lover in varying degrees of sultry lingerie. She ends up setting her apartment on fire in the end, making you wonder if she's just a psycho ex who wants to torment her lover, no matter how much he gives to her. Despite the lack of promotion, the song did register 15.6M streams on Spotify this year.
Title: Flame
Artist: Tinashe
Album: Joyride
Previous #17s
2016: Trivium - Until The World Goes Cold
2015: Big Data - The Business of Emotion (ft White Sea)
2014: Foster The People - Coming of Age
2013: Sevendust - Decay
2012: Morning Parade - Headlights
2011: Lonely Island - Jack Sparrow (Ft Michael Bolton)
2010: Slash - Baby Can't Drive (ft Alice Cooper + Nicole Scherzinger)
2009: DevilDriver - Another Night In London
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