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Sep 9, 2014Just Be Free is not hipster music, and it's not gay music. It's music for a good time, no matter what gender your partner is or what pronoun you use.
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Jul 3, 2014Just Be Free is a wonderfully functional album, displaying Queen Freedia at her very best.
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Jun 25, 2014This is music to be experienced, not read about or analyzed for political and sociological meanings.
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Jun 18, 2014While she makes some big strides here as an artist, she’s also made sure to keep one foot planted firmly in the style that some of us consider nearly perfect.
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Jun 18, 2014She embraces the textures of contemporary EDM--wet snares, buzz-saw synths, the occasional triumphant trance melody--but the feel is unmistakably bounce throughout.
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Jun 18, 2014It’s music designed to be consumed and interacted with in a specific context--not with headphones on the subway, not on a vinyl record in your apartment.
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Jun 18, 2014Everything goes by at such a breathless pace and without much variation that for individual listening, it gets a bit draining at times.
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Jun 18, 2014Weird, wonderful, and otherworldly stuff, as if Lil B. Lil Kim, Beenie Man, Beyonce, and Dr. Frank-N-Furter were spliced together with all their collective sass preserved, then piled high.