It feels like the group chat being lit on fire after receiving a no-context text from one of your friends that says вЂњbiiiiiiiitch,вЂќ followed by all the raunchy details of their hookup. Heaux Tales feels as though it is meant to be listened to with other women. The interlude made me reminiscent of all the times before the pandemic shut the entire world down when I could sit around with my aunties and older female family members having conversations about sex and relationships that I was finally grown enough to be part of. On вЂњDonnaвЂ™s Tale,вЂќ the seventh track on the EP, you can hear the laughter of multiple women accompanied by a church organ, as SullivanвЂ™s godmother, Donna Anderson, extols the values of using men for money, or вЂњtricking,вЂќ as she calls it. However, in вЂњAriвЂ™s TaleвЂќ and вЂњPut It Down,вЂќ the two tracks that come directly after it, we hear the ways in which women become so enamored with men they lose all their senses, essentially becoming dickmatized-from Lennox musing about how glorious a former partnerвЂ™s lovemaking was (вЂњThat dick spoke life into me / Invigoration, blessings, soul, turmoilвЂќ) to Sullivan singing about being with a broke man who lives with his mother but whose dick has her вЂњacting like a fiend.вЂќ вЂњFunny how I finally flipped the script on you,вЂќ Sullivan sings in вЂњPick Up Your Feelings.вЂќ Here, Sullivan assumes the role of a fed-up woman retrieving her power from her adulterous ex-lover. These gendered dynamics are explored throughout the album. From there, we are introduced to the first interlude, вЂњAntoinette's Tale,вЂќ an empowering and scathing missive about women reclaiming their sexualities from menвЂ™s desires (вЂњWe're out here telling them that the pussy is theirs / When in actuality, it's ours'). Finally arriving after a six-year hiatus since she released 2015вЂ™s Reality Show, SullivanвЂ™s first conceptual project explores the perspectives of several different women on the subjects of love, heartbreak, and, of course, hoing.Д«efore I could even press play on the EP, I saw people reacting to some of the more salacious parts of the project, like featured artist Ari Lennox asking her lover to вЂњspit on itвЂќ or Sullivan describing a lover of hers as a вЂњlil' bow-legged hood nigga with the nine inchвЂќ in the song вЂњOn It.вЂќ There is no shortage of provocative moments on Heaux Tales, starting with the opening track, вЂњBodies,вЂќ a song about a woman trying to mentally comb through the tangled memories from her too many drunken one-night stands. Shortly after midnight on the night it dropped, I joined my Twitter timeline in listening to Jazmine SullivanвЂ™s new EP, Heaux Tales, the fourth studio project the R&B songstress began teasing at the end of last summer.

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