{"id":6423,"date":"2013-02-26T19:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T19:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=6423"},"modified":"2013-02-26T19:30:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T19:30:37","slug":"ingrid-d-johnson-what-about-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/02\/26\/ingrid-d-johnson-what-about-love\/","title":{"rendered":"INGRID D. JOHNSON &#8211; What About Love?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/02\/26\/ingrid-d-johnson-what-about-love\/what-about-love\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6424\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6424\" alt=\"what-about-love\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/what-about-love-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>People often talk about music with a purpose or a purpose in music, with Ingrid D. Johnson, the purpose and the music are one.<!--more--> A victim of child sexual abuse, she found hope in therapy and a real sense of purpose putting a message in her music. At times the lyrics can seem awkwardly confessional, but they do set the tone and back-story for the stronger songs. Positive vibes permeate every song, even the sad ones, on this ultimately uplifting disc. Her sound is a soulful blend of pop, jazz, and hip-hop supported by her band, the Funky Fresh Crew. An individually talented group, The Crew has a good chemistry that gives the songs a real vibrancy. What About Love feels like a natural extension, or more accurately an abridged version of 2009\u2019s double-album, <em>Wounded Soul.<\/em> Case in point, one of the tracks, \u201cSo Long,\u201d is a re-mix of \u201cHurry Up\u201d from the previous disc. (Independent, <a href=\"http:\/\/intheclosetproductions.com\/\">intheclosetproductions.com<\/a>) <strong>Broose Tulloch<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often talk about music with a purpose or a purpose in music, with Ingrid D. Johnson, the purpose and the music are one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[451,563],"class_list":["post-6423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-independent","tag-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}