I recently discovered singer/rapper Princess Nokia now christened Destiny put out a couple new tracks, "Orange Blossom" and "Soul Train". These new songs are 70's inspired, especially "Soul Train". "Orange Blossom" has Destiny singing in a particular fashion and beat similar to "Young Girls" and "Yaya", but the instrumentals are more electronic and synth based. The music video is set in a carnival while Destiny sports 70's attire. Visually the video is appealing. It opens up looking a hand cam from the aforementioned time period and proceeds onto the various shots of Destiny dancing and shots of objects and people on the carnival grounds. Though simplistic as it is, the cuts change at a good enough pace to prevent it from being boring and her dancing is also stimulating. I find it a sufficient video and a decent song.
"Soul Train" is highly reminiscent of 70's funk and disco. I find Destiny's vocals on this one quite not up to snuff as in other of her works, especially in the second verse which I find awful, but the song's instrumental is song and it is quite fun. The video is even more interesting than the song taking the 70's concept to the fullest having everyone in it dressed in 70's attire, with afros, boomboxes, and roller-skates accompanying it. The Electric Slide in the video threw me off as I thought that dance didn't show up until two decades later. The editing is fine. It doesn't do much, but it works and the lighting is almost perfectly even. The song sort of falls off, but the video is great. I'm looking forward to seeing more from her.
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