Mystic has shared a new music video, "Still (Love)," featuring Bay Area legend Ray Luv from her most recent project, Dreaming in Cursive: The Girl Who Loved Sparklers.
The video is the second release in a three-part series that will encompass a short film A Black Love Trilogy. Dreaming in Cursive... which was produced entirely by Walt Liquor and Mystic, is an exploration of love and wholeness, and her first full-length album since 2014's Beautiful Resistance.
"This is my heal Black woman music," she told Rock The Bells of the project last year. "This is the first album that I have made that is not grounded in trauma. This is my healed music. This is my love music. This is about loving myself. It's about loving my sisters loving my brothers loving our collective children, and loving our communities. It's about calling for justice. It's about trying to give these loving reminders and affirmations. That no matter if we live in slums are no matter what we're going through. are powerful. We are beautiful. We are worthy. We are deserving. And yes, we are magic."
As for "Still (Love)," Mystic says the song has a powerful message.
"'Still (Love)' was written and grounded in the lesson of understanding that not being in a relationship with someone and loving them in a purely non-romantic way is sometimes the best thing... " she said in a statement. "It is one of the most powerful lessons in love that I have learned. If we ask, 'How can I love you better?' which is really asking, 'How can I serve you better?' or 'What do you need?', sometimes we do not get the answer we want. However, that does not mean we do not get the answer we need. I needed this lesson to move forward and reshape how I may or may not walk into love. This song is not represented as it was written on the album in the way it is represented in 'A Black Love Trilogy.' The visual narrative represents two people in love who recognize that they may lose their love and decide to hold onto each other to push forward to the redemption that can be found in Black love. Thus, romantic love is upheld. Instead of closing a chapter, it opens a chapter in which love exists within the community context. There was a type of freedom for me in deciding the way I wrote 'Still (Love)' was not the story that had to be told. I embraced the power that comes with a visual storyteller and passionately felt and feel it is crucial to uplift Black love. That clarity has informed every step of A Black Love Trilogy'... I also realized that the song was closure for me, and it opened a beautiful process."
Watch the video below.
