Lucky Daye, “Feels Like” | After Dark 🕛 🌃

In the 45^th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, risqué, & sexual vibes behind, “Feels Like by Lucky Daye.   

Innuendo? More like full-on sexual vibes! Welcome to After Dark 🕛 🌃, a column featuring songs that are best suited for nighttime, specifically, the bedroom.  Many of the records featured here raise eyebrows, as well as the temperature! These After Dark tunes focus on the universal three-letter word:  SEX. The dark records gracing After Dark are old and new alike, with all genres of music welcome.  In the 45^th edition of After Dark (2022), we explore the naughty, risqué, & sexual vibes behind, 🎵 “Feels Like” by 🎙 Lucky Daye. 

Theme & Lyrics ✍ 

“Manipulate me, baby / Make me do what you want me to.” Oh, sugar honey iced tea! 🎵 “Feels Like” is a vibe from the start.  The record is a highlight from 💿 Candydrip, the 2022, underrated album by 🏆 Grammy-winning R&B singer, 🎙 Lucky Daye. “Feels Like” commences abruptly without introduction. Daye enters confidently, delivering sensual, ripe falsetto vocals (“So complicated / This should be plain and simple, yeah”) 😍.  The modus operandi is – you guessed it – LOVE: “Don’t have to say shit, hush / ‘Round and ‘round and ‘round we go / At my tempo.” Well, perhaps I should’ve said SEX since Lucky throws tempo into the mix. Just as an aside, have you noticed that tempo is a sexual element of music???  Remember when 🎙 ZAYN asserted in his no. 1 single, 🎵 “PILLOWTALK”, “Climb on board / We’ll go slow and high tempo.” Yeah, he didn’t quite articulate tempo properly – should’ve been fast instead of high. Okay – time to refocus!

During the course of “Feels Like,” Lucky Daye is supported by awesome production work (🎛 D’Mile). There’s a soulful groove and of course, colorful keyboard/synth work. The aesthetic and the vibe is lit to the n^th degree.  You might say it’s 🎵 “Fuckin’ Sound” (see what I did there?). Shifting back to the singing and focusing on form, the best section of the song is the simple but potent, catchy chorus:

“It should feel like love whenever we touch

But we can’t get stuck in the color of lust

Don’t it feel like love, love?

Feels like love, love.”

Notably, there’s a unique change of pace in the final minute-and-a-half of the song in the third verse. Here, Daye moves away from the lit falsetto to deeper rapped and spoken word vocals.

“One, two, three

Dearly departed

Last love died from broken, heartless

Everybody out here love to start shit

I could see me in your new apartment…”

Final Thoughts 💭

All told, “Feels Like” is a marvelous R&B record. Lucky Daye is one of the better R&B artists in the game.  He’s the full package! He’s easy on the eyes (those pecs on Candydrip – ooh, wee 😍), talented musically, and has some, dare I say, innovative spirit.  The latter two characteristics are most important, of course.  Still, can you deny the steaminess of that album artwork?

🎙 Lucky Daye • 💿 Candydrip • 🏷 Keep Cool / RCA • 🗓 2022

Lucky Daye, “Feels Like”: After Dark 🕛 🌃 No. 45 (2022) [📷: Brent Faulkner, cottonbro, Darkmoon_Art, JJ Whitley, Keep Cool, Ketut Subiyanto, KoolShooters, Luan Queiros, The Musical Hype, Pexels, Pixabay, RCA, Tazz Vaughn]