Jill Scott is in her ‘auntie’ era

This election season you can streamline your news intake with up first. Our team of reporters and editors works overnight so you can start every morning with three stories you need to know in short episodes, 12-14 minutes long, to save you time and your sanity. Follow up first on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley, and my guest today is singer, songwriter, and actor Jill Scott.

She released her sixth studio album, To Whom This May Concern, last month, her first new music in a decade. Here's a single from the album called Pressure. I wanted you to be mad. in the daytime as well as the night, but used needed to hide me, and that just don't sit right. I wasn't the aesthetic.

I guess, I guess, I get it. So much pressure to appear just like them. Pretty and cosmetic. Elementary alphabetic. So much pressure to appear just like them.

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