{"id":67964,"date":"2021-02-23T11:51:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T11:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=67964"},"modified":"2021-02-23T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:13:06","slug":"butta-b-rocka-feat-homer-mc-strange-luv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/02\/butta-b-rocka-feat-homer-mc-strange-luv\/","title":{"rendered":"Butta B-Rocka feat. Homer MC &#8211; &#8216;Strange Luv&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Butta B-Rocka makes funky, colourful, and immersive music that&#8217;s danceable, thought-provoking, and more than a bit otherworldly. The video for her latest single, the alt-pop soul track &#8216;Strange Luv&#8217;, alternative pop soul, is an exercise in sheer transcendence, and sees the artist wake up in a parallel dimension, with her every step she takes one of magic and discovery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Butta B-Rocka is\u00a0accompanied on her journey by Atlanta rapper Homer MC, whose verses he raps on &#8216;Strange Luv&#8217; are wild and witty, friendly, odd, and somewhat off-kilter. They&#8217;re make the perfect complement to Butta B-Rocka&#8217;s bright, warm verses and the danceable funk of her band. The track builds on the success of Butta B-Rocka&#8217;s recent single, &#8216;Promise Land&#8217;, which established her as a songwriter with a broad vision, one that encompassed folk, R&amp;B, classic rock, and world music. The song has found a resonance with listeners as well, and has been streamed tens of thousands of times on Spotify and other services.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The video for &#8216;Strange Luv&#8217;, directed by Mazi O, gives a nod in the direction of Alice In Wonderland, with its wild costumes and psychedelic garden-party aesthetic. It ten takes a different direction, a tangled trail of Butta&#8217;s invention. She comes face to face with Homer MC and her band, who have been transformed into enchanted beings by the forest&#8217;s spell. Mazi O and Butta B-Rocka have named their parallel dimension &#8220;Butta Butta Land&#8221;, a place where impossible dreams come true and where identity is never fixed. Even Butta B-Rocka herself is changed &#8211; if only in her outrageous costume. The implication of the clip is clear however: love is a strange thing, and if you surrender to it, you&#8217;ll never be the same.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Watch &#8216;Strange Luv&#8217; below, and visit Butta B-Rocka&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ButtaBRocka.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> for more information about this artist and her music.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_46590\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ypr7TGn30zk?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"Butta B-Rocka, Homer Mc - Strange Luv (Official Music Video)\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/Ypr7TGn30zk\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butta B-Rocka makes funky, colourful, and immersive music that&#8217;s danceable, thought-provoking, and more than a bit otherworldly. 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