Consumer Guide Album

GloRilla: Glorious [CMG/Interscope, 2024]
From "These niggas tryin' to get me pregnant/I need to tie my tubes" to "I ain't goin' for all that rough me up and grab me by the neck," this sex object signifies as a subject. She sees herself as a conscious combatant in the war of the genders who's in it for both pleasure and autonomy and is committed enough to her own goodness to enlist the Reverend Kirk Franklin in her life quest and hint that "Stop playing with that girl" is more likely out of concern for said female than desire for the male she sees is on the make. Limited though the world she inhabits may seem, she gets quite a few distinct songs out of it. A-