In this week’s blog, we want to bring the actual music on Broadjam to the forefront. As a host site, we have thousands of songs, from countless genres, and we figure it’s time to listen, critique and praise.

Every song harbors the potential to appeal to a million different listeners in a million different ways. This blog will focus on your interpretations of Future Native’s “Natural Woman.” Below, we offer one of our employee’s interpretations just to get your juices flowing:

The song begins strongly as a funk/blues fusion of cadenced drums, punchy acoustic licks, seemingly improvised vocals and wailing harp draws.

Lyrically, the song grasps the “all natural hippy” cliché and explodes it into a glorified admiration of the lifestyle. Lyrical simplicity and repetition both work together to praise the “natural woman.”

The ending scrapes down the song’s original texture and somewhat rudely bounces into a tribal-esque rhythmic breakdown of guitar and percussion. When the guitar fades, a percussive space (highly reminiscent of Rusted Root) is all that’s left to conclude.

Overall, I felt Future Native made many musical leaps in “Natural Woman,” ranging from blues to tribal. They encompassed quite a variety of musical genres.

Well, there you have it. One interpretation. Now we want to know: who agrees, who disagrees and why. Give us your own feelings on the song.

Song: Natural Woman