There’s this thing that Stevie Wonder does with his voice when he gets to the emotional marrow of a song. I call it the “weeping push,” because whenever he does this thing, it elicits a reaction that often culminates with me then turning into a heaping pile of blubbery goo.You can hear it in the song “Lately” from 1980’s Hotter Than July, a record whose cover unwittingly invented the Alicia Keys look (plus mustache) 20 years in advance. Wonder first utilizes the weeping push in “Lately” at around the 3:10 mark; up until then, he’s relatively subdued while recounting the narrative about his woman cheating on him. Then he finally unloads on the...
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