Dislocated and disassociated as she is, she can’t find any answers. “You don’t know who you went home with again/Was he a friend, or a friend of a friend?” she asks. Sullivan conjures a protagonist who narrowly escapes from palpable danger downs dubious cocktails experiences disembodied trips into altered states of feeling and frantically looks for her underwear in unfamiliar apartments. The narrator is examining herself, demanding that she relinquish bad habits. Sullivan spins a tale about a woman trying to stop a cycle of intoxicated hookups - “I keep on piling up bodies on bodies on bodies,” she sings. ![]() While “Bodies” is a sensuous song, its sexiness is not the point. In a period when many of us have had little bodily contact, the way this EP’s lead track, “Bodies (Intro),” fixates on the erotic feels visceral. ![]() Then, in February, the singer Jazmine Sullivan’s EP “Heaux Tales” arrived. I’d been dating a man long-distance for only a few months, and I yearned to find out if the text jokes, voice notes, FaceTime dates and phone calls would translate into physical attraction - something I had little chance to explore over the last year.
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