Natasha Aponté’s “Sense of Desire”: A Sonic Flame That Cannot Be Extinguished
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Natasha Aponté Sense of Desire: A Sonic Flame That Cannot Be Extinguished. Natasha Aponté is not a mere artist but a touchy work. With a Bronx-born and Brooklyn-grown and rooted in her Dominican and Puerto Rican roots, Aponté has staked the ground of one of the most imperious autonomous voices of her generation. She has made a name not by being trendy but by making fashion, and her fashion is strong, close, and passionate. Her visuals on the screen, the glittering voice which is velvet-flame, her narrative richness, will not enable her to be the next anybody: she is sure to be the first Natasha Aponté. Having already built a trail of defiance and grace upon which the seal of approval of the Recording Academy and the placement on playlists worldwide, her career is leaving a trail where none had previously existed.
Natasha Apontes is not just singing a song in Sense of Desire– it is a sensory journey, it is a love letter to freedom, to sensuality, and to the euphoria of living without inhibition. Based on the rhythmic percussion and filmic textures, the song evokes a sensation of a nocturnal dream, a new city with the neon lights on, where the urge is not suppressed, and time returns in a meltdown. She is hypnotic and dominating in her singing, velvet-smooth and sharpened by belief, a fabric of warmth and fire that draws together the drunkenness of love and the sacredness of lovemaking. Every heartbeat is a beat, every word is a whisper over the soul. It is bop-danceable and perceptive, sensuous and powerful–a rare fusion which can only be created by the genius of Aponté. Freedom here in this song is not that in the abstract sense, but it is vivid, living, and memorable.
Sense of Desire is the statement of a fact that Natasha Aponté is not merely creating music, but a project of what this art can be in the era of modernity. Not only is her work entertaining, but it also changes and leaves a trace to be felt long after the final note has died. The encounter with her art can be no other than a personal and movie experience, divine and subversive, sophisticated and vulgar in actuality. She stands on the intersection of culture, history, and innovation, and she takes her voice as balm and fire into the world that is so in need of authenticity. In her thinking of Sense of Desire having her GRAMMY ®, Aponté shows that she does not reason much of waiting to be granted the go-ahead to act by the industry, but rather, she is writing her destiny. And in this way, she reminds us that it is not that art must be liked but retained, that it is the most significant thing about art. Natasha Aponté is a name to be remembered, and this is not the beginning of the ascending ladder.
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