Word: xscape
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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...saturated ballads (though what couples do while listening to such songs is another matter). This summer the performers who are creating the most erotically cathartic music are the male vocal group Jodeci, whose new CD is called The Show, the After-Party, the Hotel, and the female quartet Xscape, with a new album called Off the Hook. Love songs aren't enough for these groups; they sing lust songs, exploring sweaty emotions rather than sweet ones. Their songs aren't designed to shock listeners, like Madonna's; instead, in casual language they turn common sexual experience and longing into music...
...Xscape's Off the Hook, by contrast, is an album of unconnected, though highly agreeable, songs. Who Can I Run To, the CD's best number, is so immediately likable you might swear you had heard it before (and you might be right--the song was originally performed by the Jones Girls in the '70s). While Jodeci's songs are often about male sexual pursuit, Xscape shows us things from the female perspective. Several of these songs are about women who have been wronged and yet foolishly go back to their men. On the ballad Love's a Funny Thing...
...ultimately the singing, and not the lyrics, that matters most. Both groups, though now thoroughly secular in their aims, have roots in the church. Their vocals are thus full of transporting religious passion, redirected to more worldly concerns. Xscape comprises two sisters, Latocha and Tamika Scott, and two of their friends, Kandi Burruss and Tameka Cottle. The members of the Atlanta-based group became friends in grade school. The Scotts were avid churchgoers, Burruss says, and "if you hung with them, you had to go to church every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday." All four ended up in the choir together...