This is mildly encouraging, but I do feel bad for her! I think it's so easy to blame the artist, blame the management, blame A&R...when in fact, it's the suits (who are the least in touch with music) who are making decisions. The climate for a female singer, particularly one of color is pretty rough these days. With fickle fans who comment on message boards but do not purchase nere album, and the fact that most music is being pirated or stolen online, this makes it hard for record companies to reconcile providing a budget to female artists (who are typically more expensive). How many of our favorite artists have had their albums delayed (Jazmine Sullivan, SZA, Elle Varner, Sevyn Streeter)? Also notice that a vast majority of them are on RCA Records. How many of them have vented and talked about quitting the record business because of the politics? These days, artists have to get creative when releasing an album, whereby the costs are funding by someone other than the record company! Tinashe is a brilliant artists, who is more capable than a summertime pop-hit! She writes her own music, produces her own music, and performs at a high level whenever given the opportunity. Sadly everyone wants her to become Becky, when she is Tinashe, which holds up her progress and her album.

I rest assured that when her album is released it will be bomb, but as fans, we have to support the artists because in most cases the record companies are not.