2. KelisTasty

My mum and my sister loved D’Angelo, Aaliyah, and Lauryn Hill, but with Kelis, I felt like that was my album which I could listen to front to back. 

Being an alternative Black woman, but still taking up space within the R&B realm was really amazing at the time, because I think at those times things were very much, ‘you’re from this clique and you’re from this crew’. Without her there wouldn’t be various other alternative girlies, This is a wide spectrum, this doesn’t have to be focused around Black women. She has influenced a lot of people over time. 

My memories of this are long car rides with my sister. My sister is very maternal over me and I’d see her as a second mum anyway. She had recently passed her test, therefore she had a car. We would be the people playing music really loudly. You rock up to us and it’d be blaring ‘Milkshake’ or ‘Glow’. It was really nice and joyful, lots of nice car rides to fast food chains, having a nice meal… it feels very nostalgic, very warm. And how lucky I was back then to not really have a care in the world. No bills. No rent.