Listen to Drea Dominique’s “Roll” If You Feel Like Texting That Person at 2 AM

Don’t you just miss it when songs don’t try to be overly complex? Like when it allows you to just hit play, catch a feeling, and let yourself get carried away with whatever impulsive decision it’s suggesting? For some reason, Drea Dominique’s Roll gets it so well.

Her path to indie R&B has taken a few unexpected turns, from Bad Girls Club Season 9 to running her own label. Now, her Romantic Tragedies era is making noise across borders, with radio play in the US and an audience reaching Japan and Brazil.

The track welcomes you with a smooth, laid-back R&B groove. It feels like a midnight drive that has nothing but a hazy blur of streetlights, a pretty good setting for romantic endeavours. You’d get this effortlessly inviting sound, the kind that makes staying in the moment feel a whole lot better than overthinking what comes next.

Adding to the song’s charm is the lovestruck, head-in-the-clouds quality to her songwriting. It doesn’t shower you with imagery and layers of metaphors. She just lays her feelings out there, repeats them until they become that dose of R&B that doesn’t ask much of you except to feel something and maybe text that person.

By the time Roll ends, you might find yourself entertaining the kind of decision you’d usually talk yourself out of, all because someone made it sound this good.