‘Just Like You’: Rising R&B Princess Liz Takes Us Back To Y2K

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It’s time to get familiar with LA-based R&B-pop princess on the rise, Liz.

Liz hails from Diplo‘s Mad Decent label — home of Bauuer, Zebra Katz, Crookers, Rusko and dozens of other dancehall, moombahton and techno acts. That’s a little shocking to hear, because unlike the off-the-walls, twerk-filled Block Party insanity that the label tends to conjure, Liz is providing nothing but smooth, throwback ’00’s pop sound.

The singer’s sweetly-sung R&B-pop ditties serve all sorts of millennial pop (or “Y2K Pop,” if you will) realness, bringing everything from Destiny’s Child to Britney to Aaliyah to mind.

After dropping a few intro tracks last year, “Hush” and “All Them Boys” (which reaches slightly further back into early ’90’s House — no complaints here!), the singer’s just released her debut (free!) EP, Just Like You…and there’s not a flaw to be found.

The C.Z.-helmed “Say U Would” is a dreamy dose of ’90’s R&B nostalgia, while “Do I Like U” slaps with a “Say My Name”-esque kind of urgency. “Just be patient, I won’t keep you waiting forever/But I need a little time to figure out, boy do I like you?” she sweetly teases. There’s chilly electro-R&B banger “Don’t Say (feat. Tyga),” which is more of a Cassie throwback, while “Y2K” — as Carl pointed out over at Idolator (who was already on the Liz beat months ago) — is a drippy, Lido-produced Timbaland homage with some modern gloss.

It’s all super cute, saccharine ear candy packed in a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper. Much in the same way that Ariana Grande, Katy B and Little Mix are dabbling in influences from yesteryear, Liz is bringing that future sound by taking us back to the days of AIM, MIDI ringtones and Napster.

Give it a spin below.

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