Joshua Idehen “You Wanna Dance or What?”
“You Wanna Dance or What?” dramatizes a scene at a dance club. The music starts out blaring a soul sample from a Tommy McGee record sped up and sliced into a new riff. The beat shifts and Joshua Idehen is suddenly lost in thought, wondering why he’s in his head rather than feeling present in the party. Then he’s outside the club, and the music recedes into the background. A man notices him, truly sees him in this moment, and tells him “There is so much darkness in this world, but not in this room, and not between us.” This encounter and that line in particular is the conceptual through line of Idehen’s new record I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is...