![]() ![]() Janet Jackson’s dreamy and sexy “Funny How Time Flies (When You’re Having Fun)” gets somber strings and bass. Add in some slight lyric changes, and the song becomes introspective and filled with a new sense of despair. There is a squeaky, bright acoustic guitar undercurrent, and her ethereal voice sometimes reaches a near-whisper. Ndegeocello’s magic is felt on every track of her 2018 project “Ventriloquism.” When she covers TLC’s “Waterfalls,” one of the biggest songs ever is unrecognizable. One of her biggest hits is a cover of Bill Withers’s “Who Is He (And What Is He To You)” that she released in 1996. ![]() That, combined with her ability to find a hanging thread on a song and fearlessly pull it, has allowed her to give well-known, mostly R&B songs of the last few decades a new life. Ndegeocello, who grew up in the District and started her career as a bass player for local go-go bands, has a distinct bluesy voice packaged in folksy delivery. Meshell Ndegeocello takes a song you probably know, deconstructs it, then reconstructs it inside your ears. ![]()
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