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, and that chord progression shows up again in the chorus, adding a sense of the familiar to the song and remin