There's no doubt about it: Kayla Brianna is a fresh face. But she's bringing back a really old style. And that's meant as a compliment.
If you were a child of the '90s, Brianna's sound will ring more than a few bells. The beat on her debut single, "If You Love Me," samples Bob James' "Take Me to the Mardi Gras." This is the same sample that helped shape numerous hip hop records and one Diddy used for his all-white girl group Dream for their "This Is Me" (Remix). And the chorus is borrowed from one-hit wonder R&B girl group Brownstone's "If You Love Me."
Whoever is guiding the young singer's career clearly meant "If You Love Me" as a '90s R&B love letter. Which is refreshing in a music landscape overwashed with new millenium generic dance-pop derivatives.
Watch and listen to Kayla Brianna bring that old thing back in this sweet tale of puppy love
