India Shawn has 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. That shows why she is one of music’s current most powerful and dynamic voices. As well as why India is among my personal favorite artists and one of our favorite artists we always love highlighting here on the site. India Shawn’s newest soulfully cinematic D’Mile-produced single, Gone, just the latest example of how great an artist, voice and talent she truly is. The surf guitars, whistling and clapping soulfully cinematic production, really allowing India to truly show her very memorable and instantly catchy storytelling about not only someone leaving, but the liberating and empowering feel you get when you let go of a relationship or someone else that no longer serves a purpose to you. A big Soul/Pop anthem about truly walking away and not looking back at that type of relationship. The record really allows for India to also really show off her beautifully soulful and powerfully mesmerizing honey-drenched vocals. To go with her very self-empowering and relatable songwriting she has truly shown off even more through her last two singles, Cotton Candy Blvd. feat. Lucky Daye and Kill Switch. The culminating piano solo at the end along with India’s masterful adlibs and harmonies really helping elevate this record to such an anthem too.
India Shawn also debuting alongside the soulfully cinematic new single a Western cinematic themed accompanying David Maxwell-directed video. Which opens with her in an office taking phone calls before she leaves with a friend riding off on a horse to a gym that she feels liberated and free at. Before she then goes back out on horse to a gas station that happens to be next to a diner she enters. India in the diner with a bunch of friends truly able to show off her very liberating and empowering vocals to go with her very memorable and instantly catchy storytelling from the record. While dancing her liberating self-empowerment with friends in her very uniquely Western outfit that shows off her unique style of Western denim and glam. The way that the video plays like a neo-Western cinematic mini-movie truly helping bring the record even more to life. Especially with the visual twist-turning drama to end it really playing into the theme of India Shawn truly trying to be “gone.”
