AGE/SEX/LOCATION
Shea Butter Baby’s ARI LENNOX returns with a soulful new album, age/sex/location, which she describes as her version of Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir, Eat Pray Love, with a special emphasis on the love part.
The title refers to the users’ description on dating apps and, in an Instagram exchange with J Cole, Ari said the album was about being in a “transitional space, a very vulnerable and co-dependent and validation-seeking part of my life”.
“I remember the countless times I was kicked out of dating apps because they didn’t think I was really myself, it reminded me of those age/ sex/location days where I actually wasn’t being myself in those chatrooms. I spent so much time seeing the god and good in some abusive people.”
Ari feels like she’s evolved since Shea Butter Baby, saying that on that album she “romanticised a lot of things in life”.
“I feel like I was very naive about a lot of things: about romance, about myself, about career, life, whatever, and I feel like I’m just more aware now; more evolved and more not putting up with certain s*** I don’t like”.
Age/sex/location, she told J. Cole, is her “goodbye” to “searching for love” as the love she needs is “right here inside of me”.