{"id":23628,"date":"2014-08-03T15:39:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T22:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=23628"},"modified":"2014-08-03T19:26:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T02:26:48","slug":"neijah-lanae-sapphire-ep-volume-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=23628","title":{"rendered":"Neijah Lanae \u2013 Sapphire EP Volume One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"85%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/43762694&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neijahlanae.com\/\">Neijah Lanae<\/a> preps for a pop takeover with her new project, <strong>Sapphire EP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The EP is \u201ca collection of five songs exploring the vulnerability of love and lust through a very outspoken, and often misunderstood, female perspective.\u201d Lanae addresses the feelings involved when two lovers first meet, the first night they spend together \u2013 and everything else in between.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Neijah Lanae<\/strong>, a Los Angeles resident via Oakland, crooned about love on her last project <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/neijahlanae\/sets\/trouble-in-paradise\">Trouble in Paradise<\/a>, but her new music takes an up-tempo turn from the eerie concepts she explored in the past. She speaks her mind over dynamic sounds supplied by Executive Producers The Formula (J-Hyphen and Chi-Kotiq).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sapphire<\/strong> starts off sweet. <em>\u201cAlone with You\u201d<\/em> &#8211; produced by Huss &#8211; is a confession of complete infatuation that cartwheels into <em>\u201cKiss,\u201d<\/em> a catchy, 80s-influenced tune that magnifies the moments leading up to a first kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Then Lanae gets aggressive. <em>\u201cTell Me,\u201d<\/em> <em>\u201cTouch\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cAll Night\u201d<\/em> take things to the next level \u2013 with heavier beats and steamier lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>Just like the character it\u2019s named after, there are many sides to <strong>Sapphire EP<\/strong>. It will inspire, trigger memories, fuel dance parties and \u2013 of course \u2013 assist in love making<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theogkells\">Kelly Hawkins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bm3v1wRdRIM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neijah Lanae preps for a pop takeover with her new project, Sapphire EP. The EP is \u201ca collection of five songs exploring the vulnerability of love and lust through a very outspoken, and often misunderstood, female perspective.\u201d Lanae addresses the feelings involved when two lovers first meet, the first night they spend together \u2013 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,6],"tags":[5242,831,2733,530,531,5243],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23628"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23628"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23663,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23628\/revisions\/23663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}