Harleighblu x Bluestaeb - Queeen Dem (feat. Janne Robinson)

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🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Harleighblu & Bluestaeb - "Queeen Dem (feat. Janne Robinson)" from the 2019 self-released album She.

British R&B vocalist Harleighblu teams up with German producer Bluestaeb on the collaborative album She. On today's Song of the Day, the duo find inspiration in the poetry of Janne Robinson. Harleighblu told Highsnobiety in an email:

I wrote the track Queeen Dem (pronounced like ManDem), after being inspired by a poem called 'This is for the women that don’t give a fuck' by Janne Robinson. The poem reads ‘this is for the women who drink too much whisky, stay up too late and have sex like they mean it — it really spoke to me. I tried to capture the strength of the poem, with a nod to Janne and then elaborate with my own take on completely owning your own womanhood. Within writing the first few lines, I entitled the piece 'Queeen Dem.' Queeen gets 3 E’s to accentuate the fact you are a queen.

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0:00.0	Yeah.
0:02.0	This is for the women that don't give a fight.
0:10.0	This is for the women that don't give a fight. This is for the women who drink too much.
0:15.0	This is for the women that know they ain't sluts.
0:18.0	Despite what he says when you turn him away.
0:21.0	This is for the women who know their words, plant their feet righteously.
0:26.0	This is for the women that aren't afraid to wash that man out their hair today.
0:31.0	This is for the women that swear like drunk drivers, those own survivors
0:37.0	that party all night long, y'all. This is for the women that look damn good, and this is for the women that
0:46.3	are miss some should.
0:47.3	This is for the women no single moms to raise their kids just as strong.
0:53.0	This is for the shit rolls raising them, baby.
0:56.0	Those super ladies, those girls they call psycho.
1:00.0	This is for the women that are no crazy.
1:03.0	You, you, e, e, and this is for the Queen them.
1:09.0	You, you, e, e.
1:11.0	And this is for the Queen damn.
1:14.0	You you.
1:15.0	E. E and this is for the Queen damn.
1:19.0	This is for the Queen damn.
1:22.0	Yeah. Yeah. the Queen down. This is for the woman he ought to tame at the fine and pant into the flame.
1:30.0	This is for the women the sisterhood.
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