Kevin Bronson on May 26th, 2022

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Sudan Archives says her new single “Selfish Soul” is “about women and the celebration of hair. It’s about representation of different hair textures and embracing all colors and textures of it.”

And by celebration, we mean standing-on-a-rooftop-while-shredding-on-the-violin then dancing-in-the-mud celebration.

That’s where we find the Cincinnati-bred singer-songwriter-string-goddess during director Trey Lyons’ video, during which the artist is joined by a troupe of nine dancers to make the visual every bit the banger that the song is.

The song, written with Dexter Story and Ben Dickey and out via Stones Throw Records, is the follow-up to “Home Maker” and Sudan Archives’ second single since her 2019 album “Athena.”

She elaborates on the song’s theme: “I feel like there’s an American standard of what beautiful hair is, and I wanted to show in this video that’s not what all beauty is; to showcase different hairstyles and different types of women and their hair. I was inspired by India.Arie’s ‘I Am Not My Hair,’ one of the first songs I heard about this subject. She talks about extensions and weaves and natural hair and nappy hair, and that she’s not her hair; she won’t conform to the comparisons that would come up if you had a weave or sew-in or natural hair or Afro — that doesn’t represent her.”

||| Watch: The video for “Selfish Soul”

||| Previously: “Home Maker,” “Confessions,” “Nont for Sale,” live at the El Rey, “Come Meh Way,” “Time”