Mali Music is a former gospel singer who, in explaining his transition to secular music, mentioned that Gospel music has an ‘unspoken ceiling’ that he didn’t want to settle for. He’s been working with Akon instead, on incredible positive, inspiring music that is less explicitly Christian, and much more likely to go over at Starbucks.
There’s something impossible to deny about “Beautiful.” The songwriting cleverly applies to two audiences, and plays a neat trick of seeming at once intimate and grandiose, caught in the tension between old audience and new, the greater glory and earthly concerns, paradise and a very faint hint of fire and brimstone.
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