Jill Scott, "The Way"
Jill Scott, “The Way” Jill Scott has had a lot more commercial success than a lot of her peers in the neo-soul genre. Her single “The Way” from her 2000 album Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds, Vol. 1 is a representative track from the early part of her career and also shows the links between neo-soul and earlier soul music subgenres. I’ve always found this song calming. It features a fairly slow “walk” tempo with a few minor chords in the verses and the chorus. While it is a fairly simple song in structure and instrumentation, it also captures a blissed-out feeling of love and relationship happiness well while introducing a lot of listeners to Jill Scott’s emotional and poetic songwriting style. (Scott co-wrote this song with her producer Andre Harris, of Dre and Vidal.) The song features an introduction that establishes the slow tempo, ...