Taken from ‘Invincible’, his final ‘true’ album, ‘Butterflies’ represented the very best of Michael Jackson’s final artistic statement: it was bouncy with hip-hop breaks and a layered, almost R&B vocal delivery floating over the top.
Around the same time, both Crazy Town (with a smash single) and Mariah Carey (with a smash album) released content christened with the same ‘Butterfly’ name; each, like Jackson, containing dreamy pop which kicked in places with catchy beats.
Continuing this pop/Butterfly tradition, Scrannabis’s track takes dreamy hip-hop breaks, layers in jazz/chilled-out vocals (by Kate Bond) and adds introverted bars about escaping from broken relationships.
Layered with well-defined production and an overall sense of optimism, Scrannabis maintains the Jacko/Carey/Town ideals of both the metaphor of, and the sound of, a Butterfly. Cracking.
You can listen to the track now on all major streaming platforms.
