Raveena is the perfect mix of pop, jazz, and hip hop, and always has been. Tweety, her newest single, is a wonderful continuation of that sound, heading in all those directions more so than ever before. The song opens in a beautiful major-sounding progression, filled with other jazz treasures and classic chord progressions, all finished with the lustrous sounds of a Fender Rhodes.

The soothing surface of jazz harmony is edged with trap drums and an electric production, making the song feel much closer to the pop side of things. And just when you think Raveena hasn’t already touched just about every genre she’s mastered over the years, she throws us off the loop with a rapping bridge, which, truth be told, is the first time I’ve ever heard the singer-songwriter rap. Pleasantly surprised, the song returns to its origins by finishing it all off with the familiar soothing, dreamy, sensual harmonization lulling us to a close.

There’s something inherently magical about Raveena’s delivery, especially found in this song, that’s just so special and unique to her sound. In a world where many people imitate each other, her voice and her music are so easily recognizable. Don’t get me wrong, Reveena isn’t void of inspirations, but she finds ways to make it special to her sound. That can be found the easiest in her backing harmonies, which practically serves as its own instrument as part of the rest of the band. Her innate ability to capture the most soothing notes within chord progressions, extending far past the standard triad-harmony, is mesmerizing, to say the least. The authenticity and confidence in her own sound also shines brighter than the chord extensions in Tweety, which anyone having listened to this song would know is quite the statement. 

She will always have a place on my personal musical radar, especially with this new single out, and Tweety will absolutely find itself on many people’s playlists, as well as my own.

Author: Nicholas Gaudet

Music producer and writer from Dieppe, Canada.