Music Review // John Orpheus "U Funkin Right"

 

"U Funkin Right" begins with the story of seeing someone on stage singing and wanting to go harmonize and sing with them.    While this is a song that has powerful lines in it, I can't really fully understand what the idea or theme of the song is, but perhaps sometimes songs need such things or if they have them they don't need to be found.

With this smooth R&B sound, hip hop blend and a mix of that 1990's flow for good measure, John Orpheus has created a song which both has synth wah wah's in it and a lot la-la's within the lyrics as well.   At one point there is a line: "I know a song that we can sing / We can be free" and that feels like it brings it all together, where this song is about music and the music people can make together.

At the same time, this song has lyrics about telling yourself that you're going to change but always going after the women which are visually appealing to you.    This, in and of itself, should be enough for a lot of people listening to this song to do some self-reflection and just realize things about their life that don't even have to include relationships but just a general sense of growing up.  

Regardless of what you take from this lyrically- and, yes, the title is in here as well- this is just that type of song in the general hip hop banner that artists don't seem to want to make any more.  At some point, the sound of rap shifted and when I do hear these old school sounding versions of it I feel nostalgic, yes, but I'm just also happy because it's the type of sound I could listen to all day long.