Amerie makes highly-anticipated return with two innovative postmodern hip-hop & R&B albums!

Amerie on her specific songs:

“4TheLovers” – “It’s a baby-making record. I didn’t know that at first because I literally made up most of the song as I was singing into the mic. But midway into laying my vocals, I realized it reminded me of songs that would be in the slow jam session on the radio. The Quiet Storm. I even joked around afterward and did these little radio call-in voice overs, you know, when people dedicate the song to someone, either professing their love or apologizing for something.”

“Curious” – “It’s a tentative, sensual vocal, not my usual approach, but it felt right. ‘Curious’ is about wanting to take the inevitable next step after a long-held attraction.”

“A Heart’s for the Breaking” – “This song is all grey, stormy seas and blue thunderstorms. It’s about hopeless heartbreak and beautiful vulnerability. My experience writing novels really helped me translate the ethereal visuals into lyrics.”

“I Remember Us” – “The music sounded like a graduation song in a movie, and graduations are the end of one thing and the beginning of another, so it really made me think about that-endings, beginnings, and graduating -in terms of a relationship. All the good times, the bad times, the nostalgia of it.”

“4AM Mulholland” – “Mulholland is a long, winding road along a hilltop overlooking Los Angeles, which is perfect for reflection. In the song I say that I’m ‘trying to lose id’ because I’m trying to elevate from my unconsciousness. The song is about thinking about where you’ve been and where you’re going, what you think the Universe is telling you. It’s also about moving forward, looking but not going back.”