Kehlani, “more than I should” | LGBTQ Bopz

On the 17^th edition of LGBTQ Bopz (2022), we highlight the song, “more than I should” performed by Kehlani featuring Jessie Reyez. 

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ring on the B-O-P-Z, like #SLAYYY! LGBTQ Bopz is a column t that embraces, highlights, and celebrates singles and tracks by LGBTQIA musicians.  On LGBTQ Bopz we provide background info and insight into the respective musician(s), as well as analyze + go gaga over the bops being served up.  Furthermore, when the music dictates deeper, more transcendent discussion, we ensure the point is articulated to the fullest.  All styles of music are welcome and the BOPZ can be classics or brand-spanking new. So, without further ado, on the 17^th edition of LGBTQ Bopz (2022), we highlight “more than I should” performed by Kehlani featuring Jessie Reyez.

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Theme & Lyrics

Kehlani is everything – that goes without saying! The Grammy-nominated R&B singer/songwriter is incredibly talented with the voice of an angel.  Also, she’s firmly planted in the LGBTQ community.  Well, she has been for a while, but she officially identified as a lesbian in 2021.  The song at hand, “more than I should”, finds Kehlani living her truth in a hairy situation – she’s cheating on one woman with another. *GASPS* #SCANDALOUS!!! She has her reasons, of course, on this standout from her third studio album, blue water road.  Notably, she is assisted by Grammy-nominated Canadian R&B singer, Jessie Reyez.  Reyez finds herself in the same boat as Kehlani, except cheating with her own sexual preference, a man.  It’s juicy y’all!

With slick production work from Pop Wansel, GRADES, and Daoud, Kehlani and Jessie Reyez have an awesome canvas to paint upon. If you knew how long it’d been since I felt her on my skin,” Kehlani sings in the verse, adding, “And why I keep lookin’ at the shape in the pants she got on.”  She justifies her cheating because she feels her girlfriend isn’t fulfilling her needs and treating her right (“Is it really cheating if she ain’t lovin’ me right? / If she’s not touching me right?”).  Admittedly, in the chorus, she’s more impressed with her side chick “more than [she] should” be.  The same scenario for Reyez in verse two, where she unapologetically asserts, “Swear I’m not the type to lie / But I’d feel hella justified / If I climbed on top and we fuck tonight away like two wrongs.” Wow!

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Final Thoughts

These ladies both understand that two wrongs don’t make a right on “more than I should”.  They also understand that they need to be fulfilled and loved to the utmost by their respective partners.  Cheating should never be advocated, but man oh man is it captivating on this surefire bop which should please both the hetero- and non-hetero crowd alike!

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Kehlani • blue water road • Atlantic • 2022

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Kehlani, “more than I should”: LGBTQ Bopz No. 17 (2022) [: Anna Shvets, Atlantic, Brent Faulkner, Kurious, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay]

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