Yaya Bey: Fidelity Album Review

Yaya Bey had grown weary of reading about her own grief. After a few album cycles defined by it—familial, ancestral, societal—the R&B singer and songwriter began to suspect her “grief” had become a cartoon thought bubble above her head: Everyone could see it, but it lived outside of her. Bey writes about these feelings eloquently in a lovely essay that she penned to accompany Fidelity,…