In the video for her song I Felt it Too, Bette Smith and her band are filmed rocking out in an empty amusement park. From the infectious grin Smith wears…
“We did that video in the middle of the pandemic, shortly after they started locking us down,” says Smith, in a phone interview with Postmedia from a tour stop in Paris. “It was on Coney Island. Nobody was there. It was the perfect movie set for I Felt it Too. It was a great time.”Article contenttap here to see other videos from our teamIt looks like it.
It doesn’t take long into Smith’s exhilarating sophomore album, 2020’s The Good, the Band and the Bette, to discover that these two vibes aren’t necessarily contradictory. Growing up in Brooklyn, Smith’s first introduction to music may have been in church, but we’re not talking about solemn hymns here. Her father was the congregation’s choir director and helped mould Smith into a big-voiced gospel singer.
The latter song is deeply personal for Smith. It was inspired by a dream she had the night her mother died. The album closer, another stunning ballad called Don’t Skip Out on Me, is also about the complicated relationship the singer had with her mother.Article content “There are aspects of this album that are very autobiographical,” Smith says. “It was totally cathartic to deal with these songs and music. We went down to Mississippi and my producer Matt Patton asked me, ‘What is the theme of this album going to be?’ I started telling him about my childhood and my relationship with my mother. We started to build the themes from that.”
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