It looks like our girl Tamar Braxton might be coming with a little somethin' somethin' when she drops her upcoming album Bluebird Of Happiness later this month. The youngest Braxton sibling already did us a solid with the emotional ballad "My Man" (not to mention the dramatic video and even more dramatic BET Awards performance). Now, she's giving us a mid-tempo bop with the latest single plucked from the album, "Pick Me Up."
One listen to the opening of the track, and you'll pick up the all too familiar strains of Evelyn "Champagne" King's 1982 Kashif-produced jam "Love Come Down." Don't worry, though, as Tay Tay doesn't lean solely on the sample to get this song poppin'. Just like with the Mtume-sampling "The One," she finds the sweet spot between '80s nostalgia and modern R&B grit as she paints a picture of being in love. "It's just like vodka, like Remy, like liquor in my system/When I'm needin' that sweetness/Boy, you're the one I call," she sings sweetly at the song's start, making sure that we know that, like Beyoncé, Tamar is drunk in love. The songbird continues cooing about that loving feeling that's enveloping her whenever she thinks about her boo, letting us know that he's just the thing she needs whenever she's blue.
According to Tamar, Bluebird Of Happiness is her best album yet and, per an interview with Rap-Up, will be “almost like Love and War and Calling All Lovers got together and had a baby.” It's also her last, if you let her tell it. While that definitely remains to be seen, you can stream "Pick Me Up" right here via Spotify and pre-order Bluebird Of Happiness — which drops September 29th — on iTunes.
