India Shawn is among my favorite artists and has easily some of the most beautifully soulful mesmerizing honey-drenched vocals of not only any R&B/Soul artist, but artists in all of music to emerge over the last half decade. Her beautifully soulful just released new single, Kill Switch, really allowing her to show them off. As over the very beautifully soulful and cinematic new D’Mile, Livvy Bennett and Michael Benjamin Hunter co-produced record she sings about a love she wishes to not have anymore cause of how much they continue to kill the mood. A love that originally started as friends and is toying crossing the line to becoming even more than that even though you don’t really want it to be cause of the dangers it may bring.
The very beautifully talented India Shawn also debuting through Vevo a just as cinematically beautiful new Anne-Sophie Bine-directed accompanying video for the record. That co-stars Luke James and plays like a mini-movie which starts out with both Shawn and James driving together in a car that crashes. Before we then see both sitting in a theater watching what appears to be a movie that is the actual music video for the record. That is an odyssey through love, loss and the unraveling of reality. Which sees India watching clips of her past lives of unfolding. Whether it be both India Shawn and Luke having a romantic dinner and holding hands to at a nightclub dancing and getting close together. To India seeing blurs of these things and finally seeing herself drowning in water from suffocating and a light appearing to show and make her realize some loves as well as relationships just aren’t meant to last. The really beautiful shot new music video playing more like a mini-movie than an actual video to really bring the record even more to life. To show all the details that were put into not only the music, production and story she sings about, but the story and how it unfolds like an almost real life mini-movie rather than a music video. That shows why India is such a true to the core artist, who puts the ART in artists and why she is easily among my favorite artists now and in such a short time has possibly even become among my favorite artists ever.