Mr. Scenery Tackles Relationship Struggles On Acend

His new album has a two to three songs that can get you thinking.

‘WON’T SAY’, the first track off Mr. Scenery’s album, Acend, sees him partner up with Melo to tackle relationship struggles and contradictions.

Despairing over a relationship that’s got the lovers stuck inside a maze they cannot escape, Mr. Scenery sings about wanting to quit the relationship since whatever he does to repair the relationship counts for nothing.

Melo raps along talking about the contradictions men face in relationships. In his case, Melo raps that when a man opens up, the woman starts thinking he talks too much.

‘You’re steady shutting down; but I expect you to listen’, Melo raps.

Lyrically, the eponymous single, ‘MR. -SCENERY’, is a song that doesn’t really go anywhere despite the fact that he sings beautifully on it.

On ‘True Love’, a song featuring Melo and JB Da Don, the words ‘Tell me how you feel’ are enough to complete the song for me. I mean, it’s always nice for a man to hear how their woman feels. There’s something about ‘True Love’ that reminds me of Joe’s ‘I Wanna Know’.

Can you open up your heart and tell me how you feel inside

Mr. Scenery asks: if he knew how she felt, wouldn’t she think that would make him treat her better?

Before you close your eyes, tell me how you feel tonight

If the lady wants true love, Mr. Scenery tells her not to make him fall in love with her lies.

‘Vow To Me’, the fourth track of the album, featuring Gaitor, takes a different turn, sort of brightening the album.

Rather than feature a rapper, Mr. Scenery here chose to bring a singer, and Gaitor was up to the task.

The song starts with Mr. Scenery and Gaitor talking to each other, the former telling the latter about some girl who’s still tripping, not realizing that Mr. Scenery loves her.

Gaitor says this Mr. Scenery: ‘Just seat her down.’ There’s something artistic about how Gaitor shifts the song from being a conversation to being a song. ‘Just seat her down and tell her something like….’

‘Hey, look at how we argue,’ Gaitor starts singing in his beautiful voice, the words being his advice to Mr. Scenery.

Hey look at how we argue. It’s cause you treat me like the niggas that discard you

Gaitor goes on singing about how he made a vow to take care of his family yet the woman doesn’t see the man in him, choosing to treat him carelessly instead.

‘I’m your best friend; I’m your headache’, Mr. Scenery goes on to sing on the song.

I’ve heard people say that featured artists oftentimes sing better than the main artists they feature on. My view listening to Gaitor on this song? I want to hear more singing from him!

Mr. Scenery has a piercing voice. This observation comes to me as I listen to ‘Crying Soul’, a song on which the dude repeatedly sings ‘Lord knows, I cried this day’.

Which day, you find yourself asking.

A thousand this, a million that – Mr. Scenery questions God although he’s not comfortable with it.

‘You don’t know about this pain’, he sings; pain that feels like a million splinters, pain that makes him want to drill a million niggas; pain that wouldn’t be put out by a thousand words you might say to him… no wonder why Mr. Scenery repeatedly sings ‘Lord knows, I cried this day’.

Even pounding on a bitch, wouldn’t help, he sings. If the songs makes you despair, perhaps that’s Mr. Scenery’s goal: to put you into a mindset that reminds you of your pain.

Melo returns once more, this time on ‘Wanna Do’. The song starts with Melo emphatically rapping about a woman who’s ‘more than a woman in my bed’, the best woman’s he’s ever had.

Open my mind

Talk to me instead

I love the song – the rapping and the singing; the alternating between the two (rapping here, singing there…).

The following song, ‘Hero’, also features Melo. From the song, I could hear the words ‘Have you ever seen the hero’; but I spent a considerable time trying to figure out what the song’s about.

There’s something chiled about ‘Inspiration’, which is the last song on Acend, a piano and beat song which you can never tell whether Mr. Scenery is talking to himself, to a woman or you, the listener.   

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