Anna Vee opens “Honesty” with a heartbeat‑thick bass drum, and from the first downbeat she invites you into a confessional booth where neon light leaks under the door. The groove moves with the tensile snap of 21‑st‑century R&B, yet there’s a flicker of classic girl‑group defiance in the way she phrases each line—as if the Ronettes had been schooled on Solange and SZA before stepping to the mic.
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Announcing her own salvation, Vee sings about pulling the plug on a relationship that fed on silence. She threads her melisma so close to breaking point—“that voice of hers, always teetering on the edge” as one listener noted—that every ascent lands like a fresh exhale.
The production keeps her honest, too: hand‑clap echoes ricochet against a minor‑key keyboard swell, and when the chorus locks in, the beat stomps where ballads usually kneel.
SCORE 7/10
Spin it in the car with the windows cracked at midnight, and you’ll understand why Vee’s rising voice already sounds like tomorrow’s reference point.
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