SOUNDS: On today's playlist

"Honey," by Erykah Badu (click song title to listen)

Beginning with her last album, Worldwide Underground, Erykah has been shifting away from traditionally structured pop/R&B songs and more towards extended jam session kind of material (see "I Want You" and "Black In the Day"). We're not entirely mad at it. "Honey," her first new single in a long while, won't change the way you think about anything in particular (you can't even easily decipher her lyrics at first listen), but we don't think the song is meant to either. It's simply what it is: something funky to sway to.