You know what irrationally annoys me? When someone listens to an old song on YouTube and drops a comment like, “Still listening in 2025.” Yeah, we can see the date. But here I am, about to do my own version of that — because I’m still listening to Jill Scott’s Talk to Me, a song from 2004 that’s been stuck in my head for two decades.

I grew up on ’90s R&B — the soulful, intimate, real stuff — and Jill Scott in the early 2000s carried that vibe forward. Her Words and Sounds albums weren’t just music; they were poetry. Talk to Me is one I’ve played countless times, partly because it’s a great song, partly because it’s a little mirror for my own relationships, and partly because it’s taught me a few things.

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