Natalie D-Napoleon Delivers an Album of Handmade Tales with Poetic Poise
The poetic songs in Natalie D-Napoleon’s
You Wanted To Be the Shore But Instead You Were the Sea give women an honest voice.
You Wanted to Be the Shore but Instead You Were the Sea
Natalie D-Napoleon
30 September 2020
Women have been cast in all manner of roles in song. They’ve been the object of desire and the subject of scorn. They’ve been the “other woman”; the evil antagonist responsible for kinds of ill. But seldom has the lyrical portrait that’s painted been emotionally three-dimensional. On her latest album,