Alive is a strange song, to say the least, and I mean that in the best of ways. It feels like a fast edit, smash cut collation that changes and collides without warning between the worlds of seductive seventies soul, stark and explicit, staccato trap-house salvos, ambient interludes and more structure and free-flowing, dexterous raps.
Some might accuse the song of being unfocussed, but that is to miss the point. This constant cycling through different sounds and styles and the fast switch between one and the other allows Nana Bangz to explore all manner of changing emotions within the three and a half minutes of the song – from anger and revenge to love to expressions of being truly alive by finally being able to express yourself.
And it is that feeling of being alive in the fullest sense of the meaning—unrestricted, unabashed, unfettered—that is being journeyed through here and played out to the fullest.
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