Lianne La Havas “Forget”
Rocking multi-instrumentalist chops, a distinctive look that quickly alerts the senses to her being something special, and a tender R&B/ jazz/ pop/ folk-hybrid singer-songwriter confessional sound that’s as relaxing as a sip of chamomile tea, it’s really no wonder how 22-year-old, London-born newcomer Lianne La Havas has managed to fully captivate nearly any and everyone who has caught one of her live performances or somehow became aware of either one, or both, of her fantastic two 2011 EP’s (freebie Live in L.A. and Lost & Found).
On the heels of becoming a BBC Sound of 2012 nominee and earning a spot as opening act for Bon Iver, Havas is set to make some major noise this year, and while we have to wait a bit longer to get a full-length debut, she’s made the wait slightly more bearable with the release of another mini-album, Forget.
Here’s the video for the catchy title track/ lead single, a snazzy update to a song first heard in acoustic form on L.A. with La Havas tucking her baby’s bottom soft vocals in a subtly knocking brew of scratchy electric guitar & dreamy Spanish guitar-accented funk/ soul–all in the name of kicking a jerk boyfriend and his now-ineffective love songs to the curb: “Remember way back when you played me and I lost that hand?/ So please don’t try to serenade me/ I am a one man band”. Tell ‘em Lianne.
Here’s the acoustic version:
