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...performance. Code switching is a technical term used in vocal coaching that refers to switching between dialects. Here, the term applies to how people change the way they talk in various social environments. “This would specifically reference how your switch happens when you’re black and navigating different situations,” Strachan explains...
...case of being an African American, it’s like, how black am I allowed to be?” Scanlan asks. This is an issue that black actors constantly have to confront—the Sevens and Scanlan even joked about having a Black-O-Meter in their pieces that would register how ‘black’ a given piece is on a scale...
...industry dominated by the outside perception of an actor, Code Switch 7 envision themselves sparking a very personal conversation about being black in their original pieces. Some, like Settles, use music: he is incorporating part of a gospel song, “Trouble in My Way,” into his piece in order to talk about his own experience of black spirituality while growing up in Jersey City...
Others, like Imafidon, will deliver provocative and fun monologues. One of her pieces is centered on relationships and her fascination with biracial couples. “I was thinking about my body and black bodies,” Imafidon says. “I wanted to play with black fetishes by looking at them through a white person’s eyes, and then I thought, how about if I talk about my own fetish? How about if I talk about my white man fetish...
...other end of the album’s emotional spectrum, “Out Go the Lights” finds Daniel at his most vulnerable. “There’s a picture of you / standing there in my black wig / looking like, who thinks they know who?” he laments. His frankest song since 2001’s “Anything You Want,” the nostalgic misery finds directness in small lyrical details and Jim Eno’s unbroken backbeat. The pounding “Is Love Forever?” takes...