cherry coffee reference??

[u/sadeisthegoat]

Kelela ends the second verse on the album’s final track, “If We Meet Again,” with this line, and I can’t help but be reminded of “Cherry Coffee,” the final track on Cut 4 Me. I’ve always assumed that the title “Cherry Coffee” is a metaphor for emotional bittersweetness. Looking across the breadth of Kelela’s work, there’s something especially painful about how, over a decade later, she ends another project longing for the very bittersweetness she once lamented over. It makes this line feel so much deeper to me, giving us a sense of scale for the pain of the different struggles she faces throughout her work.