#I don’t think Tinashe is robbed bc of the ppl who didn’t listen to Nightride

[stuckinapril]

i remember first listening to tinashes debut mixtape back in 2012 when i was in highschool and how i listened to it every morning on my way to school and back home on my ipod. her music really helped me grow into the person i am today and it makes me so happy that so many ppl appreciate and still listen to her today. its wild looking back and how far shes come. her first mixtapes are truly my favorites and always make me nostalgic. its fun to see how her new music is blending old influences and new ones and its so delightful.

So happy to see someone else appreciating her as much as I do on here!! I’ve dug so deep into everything about this woman, from listening avidly to her music to watching all the interviews she’s done in the past. I’ve seen her in concert (amazing stage presence). She’s one of very few contemporary female artists who can still do insane choreo AND powerhouse vocals. I will forever die on the hill that she deserves sm more (although her career as an independent artist is nothing to sneeze at all the same).

I feel like she’s always been grounded in her vision of being experimental w music. You can tell from her interviews that she didn’t want to be boxed into the rnb category, a sentiment expressed by other black artists like FKA Twigs and Tyler, and I def think she fulfilled her creative vision w her last couple of drops as an independent (not that she shies away from making more rnb tracks or dislikes the genre—I genuinely think she just doesn’t want to be labeled that bc she really does dip her toes into a bit of everything).

I just!! Always feel like!! She should be more mainstream than she currently is. I don’t think that’s a bad thing to say. I feel like people say this ad nauseam about her, and she’s expressed in interviews that she doesn’t want to lean too much into it, but I truly do think she’s underrated. And like I can tell why she’s still underground: clashing frequently w RCA while she was signed to them (they wanted her to lean into the rnb/pop persona anddd she did not want that), keeping her breakup w Ben Simmons under wraps (so many of the main pop girls have used real life drama like that to further their careers), the general public probably not being ready to welcome another black woman into the mainstream (Tinashe has talked before about how she feels there are very limited slots for black female artists), and also just her generally being torn between being an indie influence and going more pop. I do sympathize—I feel like she takes nothing more seriously than her creative freedom—but I will never stop riding for her bc she should be selling out stadiums. That is all