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Pop, as a flexible, boundary-crossing creative framework that adapts to the unique impulses of artists around the world, serves as the core throughline for the recording titled Blind, a work rooted in Kenya’s rich, vibrant creative ecosystem. The genre’s inherent malleability has allowed creators across every continent to reimagine what pop can be, moving far beyond narrow industry assumptions that once boxed pop into a one-size-fits-all mold designed for Western mainstream audiences. This shift toward genre-fluid, emotionally unguarded pop is epitomized by projects like SZA’s long-awaited sophomore album SOS, a raw, genre-defying emotional storm that frames pop as just one thread in a sprawling sonic tapestry that also weaves in R&B, grunge, and hip-hop to create a work that feels both deeply intimate and universally resonant.
