This is good, maybe even great? I so want him to find his place in the landscape again and this sounds fresh and he’s hot in the video even if the barbie aesthetic feels exhausted by now.
I cannot imagine how difficult the last few years have been for him after coming down from those stratospheric heights he reached. The pressure he would’ve been under, especially as one of a criminally small number of black queer voices to breakthrough into the mainstream lexicon, can’t have been anything less than immense. And yes, I know he handled the outwards facing response to the homophobia and racism he had thrown his way with wit, grace and humour but there’s no way it didn’t bruise.
After a few false starts I hope he can see through this sound to another body of work and build from there.