But after “Acoustic Soul,” was shut out at the Grammys despite seven nominations in 2002, Arie’s spirit was broken, and she started feeling the pressure to fit into a landscape of easily marketable R&B divas. I’m still trying to figure out how to wrap my words around my feelings about it.”Īrie instantly became a critics’ darling and a torchbearer for a new class of neo-soul singers that included Alicia Keys and Jill Scott. " that conversation belongs to the black community. “I was completely taken off guard,” Arie said by phone from Atlanta. The photo was trending on Twitter in March as commenters mulled her “lighter” complexion and issued a rash accusation: Did the singer - long praised for Afro-centric anthems such as “Brown Skin,” “Video” and “I Am Not My Hair” - have her skin “bleached”?
On it the 37-year-old poses with her tresses in a towering head wrap, legs peeking from a short dress, and her skin, possibly glistening from the song’s titular product, glowing. It’s a signature Arie track with a positive message wrapped in a tender groove that made news of a backlash over the single - her first in more than four years - disturbing. On India.Arie’s new song, “Cocoa Butter,” she sweetly sings of a love that nourishes past scars.
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