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Soundbites: Montell Fish – “Don’t You Love Me?”

“Don’t You Love Me?” is a song for when there is nowhere else to go.

Montell Fish originally posted a demo of it on his YouTube channel November 2022, but it had never officially been released.

August 15, 2024, he performed the song on COLORS, a well-known music platform in the soul and R&B scene… and it was breathtaking.

Montell Fish, real name Montell Frazier, is known primarily as a Christian artist. He draws inspiration heavily from his faith when creating music, his pure devotion phrased like lyrics of a love ballad. Songs like “Crumble,” whose lyrics are doting and unshakeable in their disposition, are ones I love even as someone who ascribes to a different faith.

“Don’t You Love Me?” is another beast entirely.

The chorus wastes no time, coming in desperate and swinging before anything else can take stage. The lyrics have a hint of something wavering, and Frazier’s voice tells me he’s on his knees:

“Know I get crazy / But don’t you love me anyway? /

And I know I frustrate you / But don’t you love me anyway?”

Like most of the music I love the most, this track found me at the perfect time.

Truthfully, that’s probably why I find it so moving: communication in my own relationship with the Divine exists substantially through sound.

So to come across a song that captures a familiar struggle so eloquently is truly special, especially if it’s not authored by someone with the same beliefs.

Also like many of the songs I hold closest to my heart, “Don’t You Love Me?” is relatively uncomplicated and somewhat repetitive, only breaking the prayer for a bridge in between; the devotion is apparent, however unadorned the track may sound.

After I’ve had it on loop for an hour or two, the song becomes a chant, of despair, of fear, and of faith in something unknown, but only because there is nowhere else to go.

– love & disco,

dirty chai

By dirty chai ☽

hi there, i'm dirty chai :3 i love all sorts of music, but some of my favorite genres are electronic (ambient, electronica, garage..), alt-r&b/hip-hop, nu-disco, and psych rock. all sounds are welcome <3

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