“Pray, but my heart is weak, yeah/It’s all monotony.” But the song feels like an attempt to again relive an old Timberlake/Timbaland feature on a project that’s meant to re-center Skye.įorced nostalgia aside, Space and Time is Skye’s chance to lay bare her journey of coping with heartache and self-doubt. A snippet of Timberlake’s “Holy Grail” hook (co-written and produced by Timbaland) on another heartbreak tune, “We,” fits Skye’s breakup theme- “Just stop hurting me/It’s all in agony” she sings. The song samples “If Your Girl Only Knew,” with a Justin Timberlake feature that, rather than revitalizing the original, plays like a phoned-in collaboration. ![]() On “It’s About Time,” Timbaland introduces her by name as if it’s the year 2000, and with tracks like “Innocent,” he plays into his predictable narrative of creating protégés like Aaliyah. But if the project is designed to make her stand out in a crowded field, it falls short of defining moments.Īmong a generation of singers like Summer Walker and SZA known for airy, whispered vocals, Skye has a notably deeper tone but never pushes her range. As a result, there is a unique sense of urgency and directness on Space and Time, setting the album up as a chance for her to dig deeper into the industry baggage that made her step out on her own. Skye is aware of her middling status in the R&B world-she referred to it in a tweet as “all that talk”-and she recognizes the stain of former public relationships with fellow artists Goldlink, Travis Scott, and Sheck Wes, who Skye accused of abuse in 2019. Space and Time has the futuristic sound of its executive producer Timbaland’s greatest hits, with robotic tempos and slap-bass melodies it’s a pairing that works well in theory but relies heavily on mimicking artists of the past.
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