Mavi and producer Jay Versace are the latest duo we didn’t know we needed. On Monday the duo dropped “Sorry” and “Book of Job”, two stories of sorrow. In Mavi‘s words, “Sorry” is about, “being gaslit into an apology by the context of lack. And sitting up straight.”
“Sorry” feels like one of those movies where you keep reliving the same day over and over again. “I’m sorry it had to be me yet again” is a line that rang louder than any one of Zendaya’s tear-jerking lines in Euphoria. It suggests that this is an apology Mavi has let out before, an apology that he thinks everyone may be tired of hearing, but one that they’ve all been begging for.
“Book of Job” is about “a successful, God-honoring man who loses everything for God to win a bet with the Devil”, per Mavi. Part of me views both songs as an apology though, the last 10 bars of the track show Mavi with all the hopes he has in regard to God. The beginning of the track and even Mavi himself suggested that there was an unrivaled faith between him and God, the relationship then became skewed at a certain point in life.
Mavi has a unique ability to give me different ways to describe how I feel, “You can tell my heart not built for clout I really be pressed/thinking they really impressed with me, not seeing me as a check,” is a crazy bar. I know I’m a writer, but intricately describing the way one feels like that, being able to be so expressive while simultaneously being vulnerable is just insane to me. Salute yourself Mavi, and to everyone else, please stream these two singles as much as you can. You’ll learn a lot about Mavi, and even maybe yourself.
