{"id":66600,"date":"2020-12-04T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T15:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=66600"},"modified":"2020-12-04T15:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T15:02:33","slug":"lashaijay-releases-latest-single-sweet-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/12\/lashaijay-releases-latest-single-sweet-lady\/","title":{"rendered":"LashaiJay Releases Latest Single, &#8216;Sweet Lady&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LashaiJay is an R&amp;B singer whose second official single, &#8216;Sweet Lady&#8217; comes ahead of her debut mixtape, &#8216;Mixed Emotions&#8217;, set to drop on Christmas Day.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The artist has been singing for as long as she can remember, honing her writing her style through poetry and music, since she was a child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Sweet Lady&#8217; serves as an ode to the very best of R&amp;B music, and was inspired by an important person in her life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Sweet Lady&#8217; is only just over 2 minutes long but it travels through a range of styles and tempos in that time, with LashaiJay keeping in step with the rhythms all the way. It&#8217;s an interesting sound that takes a couple of listens to fully appreciate, and fills us with anticipation as to what her upcoming mixtape will be like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LashaiJay brings back the old skool R&amp;B sound with her music, and cites Jazmine Sullivan as being her major influence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stream and download &#8216;Sweet Lady&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/ditto.fm\/sweet-lady-lashaijay\">here<\/a>. You can find out more about LashaiJay and her music online on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LashaiJay5\/\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lashai_jay\/\">Instagram<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/4l0AdOsUKnG3hhWTXCa4y1?si=rX1p3a6qSL-AlQb7KEZrGg\">Spotify<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/gb\/artist\/lashaijay\/1537812655\">Apple Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Listen to &#8216;Sweet Lady&#8217; below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/7Lyngw4U8NGDgMMkUDEDbx\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LashaiJay is an R&#038;B singer whose second official single, &#8216;Sweet Lady&#8217; comes ahead of her debut mixtape, &#8216;Mixed Emotions&#8217;, set to drop on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":66601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9,21453,21445,21446],"tags":[26560,11720,77,370,116,10677,26561],"class_list":["post-66600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","tag-lashaijay","tag-lisa-hafey","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-review","tag-single-review","tag-sweet-lady"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-hkc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":71060,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/09\/debbi-o-taps-into-80s-nostalgia-with-the-release-of-her-new-single-sweet-love\/","url_meta":{"origin":66600,"position":0},"title":"Debbi O Taps Into 80s Nostalgia With The Release Of Her New Single, &#8216;Sweet Love&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"02\/09\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"'Sweet Love' is the new single from South London singer, Debbi O. 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