Taste Test: Natasha Elise hits her stride with new song, ‘Ride wit Me’
The pop newcomer offers up an ultimatum with her new club banger.
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You could say pop novice Natasha Elise is caught in a bad romance. Sun-kissed and love-soaked, left questioning her lover’s long-game, Elise pushes for answers with her smoldering ’90s R&B-infused banger and doesn’t let up until she’s got what she so desperately deserves. With staggering flow, “Ride wit Me” perches somewhere between Ciara and Mariah Carey while completely opening up the throttle for a propulsive contemporary pop emission. “Will you really ride with me?” she proposes over thumping bass. “I’m running off jet fuel, baby / You’re sinking in a whirlpool lately / You think I’m a fool, but boy, I survived,” she situates new-found self-worth centerstage. Elise attacks each syllable with icy-hot bite, chomping down on what could be a toxic relationship, offering up an ultimatum: it’s do or die. There’s no grey here to speak of, and Elise’s self-possession commands the conversation with empowering charm.
“Ride wit Me” serves as a primer to Elise’s upcoming debut EP, If You Only Knew, out later this year.
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