โScansionโ is the newest single from Exzenya, the 55-year-old genre-defying artist who has been steadily carving out a bold space for herself as an independent voice across pop, R&B, and beyond. โScansionโ takes its name from the poetic practice of scanning rhythm in verse, but here turns it into a metaphor for desire, attraction, and the almost primal pull between two people.
From the get-go, the song zooms in with jangly guitars and restless energy, while Exzenyaโs eccentric and iconic vocal style in her head-voice gets us listening. She showcases her trademark quirks with airy flips, sudden falsetto bursts, and a breathy intensity that turns the whole performance into something both sensual and slightly theatrical.
Exzenya glides breathily above the instrumentation. Her phrasing feels quick, urgent, and exasperated, mirroring the whirlwind passion her lyrics describe. Each verse unfurls like a heavy breath pushing out from the bottom of the stomach, quivering as they go out, as if they are being caressed out and sheโs trying to keep up with emotions spilling over. Then, as the chorus arrives, her voice bends and climbs, almost gasping, echoing the dizzying intoxication of love and lust wrapped into rhythm.
The production, handled with a genre-fluid sensibility, mixes pop clarity with a Spanish-tinged sway and subtle R&B smoothness. Underneath, the beats keep things pulsing forward, while layered guitars chime lightly, other times grinding more intensely to match her rising delivery.
Lyrically, โScansionโ plays with repetition, lines like โeach day was filled with lust and scansionโ loop back like a mantra, underscoring how rhythm and desire entwine.. Exzenya has managed to turn a technical literary term into a living, breathing portrait of attraction. Listen to this magnetic song on Spotify.
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Review by: Naomi Joan