D’Angelo and the Legacy of Voodoo (with Faith Pennick)

Switched on Pop

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Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In the year 2000, D'Angelo released Voodoo—with some help from Questlove, Angie Stone, Raphael Saadiq, and a band of jazz veterans—an album that has cast a long shadow with its unique sound of stripped-down soul, Faith Pennick, who literally wrote the book on the record, joins to break how D'Angelo broke the "shiny suit" regime of R&B, explore how he conjured the spirits of J Dilla, Prince, and Roberta Flack, and consider how one video almost derailed his career. Check out D'Angelo's Voodoo by Faith Pennick, from Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Series Songs discussed: D'Angelo - The Line, The Root, Spanish Joint, Chicken Grease, Untitled (How Does it Feel) Rev JC Burnett - Amazing Grace Prince - Kiss Justin Timberlake - Damn Girl Thundercat - Them Changes Slum Village - CB4 Charlie Hunter and Scott Amendola - There Used to be a Nightclub There Roy Hargrove - Strasbourg / St. Denis Solange - Cranes in the Sky Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	First, sweet tarts dare to combine sweet and tart, but they didn't stop there.
0:06.0	Now they've combined soft and bouncy to bring you new sweet tarts, gummy fruity splits.
0:12.0	A uniquely delicious dual-sided gummy with one side that's sweet, and the other side that's tart.
0:19.0	But entirely smooth and squishy.
0:22.0	A powerfully perfect combo.
0:24.0	Sweet tarts dare to combine.
0:28.0	20 years ago, in the year 2000, Anno Domini, low unto us was given the greatest of all albums,
0:36.0	DeAngelo's Voodoo.
0:48.0	And now, Charlie, 20 years later, we come together to celebrate this album,
0:54.0	to learn the hidden stories behind its creation, to unpack the way it continues to influence contemporary artists,
1:01.0	and to hear how the album's biggest hit almost destroyed its creator.
1:07.0	I'm a musicologist, Nate Sloan.
1:10.0	I'm a songwriter, Charlie Harding.
1:12.0	This is switched on pop.
1:14.0	Voodoo edition.
1:25.0	So I've been thinking a lot about this album, Voodoo recently, because I've been reading a new book by Faith Henik,
1:35.0	simply called Voodoo.
1:37.0	It's part of the 33 and a third series from Bloomsbury, where every book in that series breaks down a single album.
1:44.0	And so Faith has written about Voodoo, which has caused me to go on this voyage of the soul back to my own childhood,
1:53.0	and sort of thinking about how this album continues to resonate even after two decades.
1:59.0	So Charlie, what I want to do is break down some of the core musical qualities of this album with you,
2:04.0	and then the second half, we're going to bring Faith into the conversation to think about the legacy of this album and how it affected its star, DeAngelo.
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