This is a great, energetic song from her debut album. It's fairly 'cryptic', but not really. I like the imagery she evokes and the vocal style she delivers them with. She's a truly remarkable singer. Her defiance is unique, powerful and unquestionable. Her scarf reference would later be utilised in the spoken version, at the end of the 12" version of Jump in the River. It's rather risqué (or blatantly offensive) but still fitting for the 'artistic' and 'powerful' feeling the song is expressing. But I digress. Mandinka is a great song that just made the top 20 in the UK but still remains an early suggestion and clarion call of the woman who'd soon break the mainstream with her (sentimental) rendition of a Prince cover (we all know which song). Hats off to such an amazingly talented and individual artist.
This is a great, energetic song from her debut album. It's fairly 'cryptic', but not really. I like the imagery she evokes and the vocal style she delivers them with. She's a truly remarkable singer. Her defiance is unique, powerful and unquestionable. Her scarf reference would later be utilised in the spoken version, at the end of the 12" version of Jump in the River. It's rather risqué (or blatantly offensive) but still fitting for the 'artistic' and 'powerful' feeling the song is expressing. But I digress. Mandinka is a great song that just made the top 20 in the UK but still remains an early suggestion and clarion call of the woman who'd soon break the mainstream with her (sentimental) rendition of a Prince cover (we all know which song). Hats off to such an amazingly talented and individual artist.