R&B singer Summer Walker only dropped her acclaimed debut, Over It, last month, but she might already be over it. The 23-year-old Atlanta singer was named R&B’s next big thing, then canceled 20 dates on her perhaps prophetically named The First and Last Tour, citing social anxiety. “Y’all can have the music & ima just head out,” she wrote on Instagram. “Fuck the interviews, photo shoots, videos, & really the shows too.”
Lucky for Detroit, the Royal Oak date survived the cut — at least for now. Even if Walker ends her brief career in the biz, the good thing is the music really is that good. Walker performs a hip-hop-inflected brand of R&B, drawing praise for her throwback mashups (“Playing Games” is a guitar-driven track that interpolates Destiny’s Child’s “Say My Name”) as well as her unabashed sex positivity (on “Girls Need Love,” she declares: “I just need some dick/ I just need some love”).
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 27; Royal Oak Music Theatre, 318 W. Fourth St., Royal Oak; 248-399-2980; royaloakmusictheatre.com. $29.50.
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This article appears in Nov 13-19, 2019.
