R&B singer-songwriter Elle Varner flew out of the gate in 2011 with a feel-good, boom-bap-heavy tune about a man who had managed to snag her attention away from a particularly nice pair of shoes. But three years already feels like an eternity ago, and on her newer material Varner sounds far from satisfied by either a sweet talker or some new kicks.
She took the stage with guns blazing, and a couple of songs into her set, she was more than willing to admit that she's been going through it lately; a public break-up, a stalled album release and a (freshly resolved) spat with fellow R&B singer K. Michelle have kept Varner's name in the headlines. "This past year, I've been through some s—-," she said, before launching into a stirring performance of "Little Do You Know," a song from her upcoming record, 4 Letter Word.
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