Phone DownErykah Badu · 2015

pitchfork

“Too much has been made of Erykah Badu’s dedication of “Phone Down” to her friend Aubrey, its proximity to her epic revision of “Hotline Bling,” imbuing the idea that her music is orienting around his (or him). Really? We're gonna do this again? Give her the Joni/Jill Scott/Yoko/Taylor treatment and comb her music for clues about the famous man in her midst rather than luxuriate in her own inspired”