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Luke James's highly-anticipated second studio album, to feel love/d is hitting your headphones and speakers soon. Luke sat down with ESSENCE to talk love, the new album and more.
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00:00Sex is amazing.
00:02It's hard not to write about something so good.
00:04So I get why it's so easy for R&B music to just be only about sex, because it feels good.
00:10But so does love.
00:11And when you have love and sex all together, then it's just like this miraculous thing.
00:25I don't enjoy the first album, so I don't factor it in.
00:30It's not an album that I wanted to put out, so it's not my album.
00:33Now this is me.
00:34This is all me.
00:36This is me writing it from top to bottom.
00:39This is what I want to do.
00:41This is music I actually like, actually love of myself, actually feel.
00:46I'm in a place of only doing what I love to do from here on out in my life, period.
00:51This album is a body of work that has just a culmination of experiences and ideas, music
01:00that I've lived with for a while.
01:02I like to think of this album as more of a bridge into my new endeavors, being an independent
01:08artist.
01:09If I had to choose music or acting, then I'd just choose nothing.
01:16I'm an artist all around totality.
01:19I'm looking forward to see what else I have inside of myself that I'm capable of doing
01:23because there are things I don't know.
01:25I didn't know I could act.
01:27But, you know, it doesn't mean nothing until someone else believes in it too.
01:30So right now I'm just really focusing on being the best at acting and telling someone's story
01:38and telling stories and being a great artist and figuring how they feed each other and how
01:44I can create endlessly from an honest place.
01:48This album was built from love.
01:50It was built with love.
01:52It was built in search of love.
01:55It's about love.
01:56It's me reflecting on myself and loving myself and thinking bigger and seeing myself in those
02:05beautiful places that I'd always dreamt of.
02:07And maybe at this, at a moment, I thought that wasn't, it wasn't, it was out of reach for
02:11me.
02:12And this music is like, just basically to help you let your hair down and just get into yourself.
02:20It's just about love.
02:22It's about loving, understanding, gratitude.
02:26That's what this album is.
02:28It's me.
02:29It's 100% me.
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