Nashville-based singer-songwriter Joy Oladokun discusses her album 'In Defense of My Own Happiness': 'I found love, I found hope, and I’m moving forward in that.'
before she entered into a joint partnership with Amigo Records, Verve Forecast, and Republic this past spring. Her major label debut,, arrived in June, and features an immaculately crafted batch of folk-and-R&B-influenced songs that center her experiences as queer Black woman in America. Anger, sadness, and grief are all present, but so are hard-won optimism and gentle reminders that it’s possible to survive — and even thrive — amid chaos.
“I’m a Nigerian-American kid growing up in a farming town,” Oladokun says. “Every time I’ve seen a guitar, it has been in the hands of a white person. [When] I got to see Tracy and her guitar in a stadium of people — just listening to her thoughts, her feelings, how she saw the world — it changed my life, very literally.”
Other times, Oladokun can wield her anger like a finely-edged blade. “Fuck you and your twisted games,” she hisses at a cruel lover in “Sorry Isn’t Good Enough,” dashing off dazzling, writerly couplets at every turn. Maren Morris joins her for “Bigger Man,” a withering takedown of privilege. In “I See America,” Oladokun looks at the United States’ long history of violence toward Black people.
“I maybe try to pare back and not overexpose it,” she says. “How do I be vulnerable, how do I be honest, how do I tell the truth, but not take somebody’s hand and stick it into the open wound in my side? Because that’s not fun.”This summer, things are taking off at the right time for Oladokun. Her album was recently reissued with 10 additional tracks from an earlier, independent version of the release for a complete overview of her recent work.
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