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Bright like a diamond remix6/16/2023 "I feel a commonality with women who try to make things, women who are loud, women who say things, women who write things, talk about themselves, sing about themselves," Smith says in an interview with NPR. This path she describes is one that positions the music not just as entertainment, but as an integral part of Smith's life and kinship with other Black women. That question is an acknowledgement of the countless Black women who have shifted and shaped American popular music, and whose influence on Smith makes up the subject of Shine Bright. In her forthcoming book, Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop, Danyel Smith writes, "Who else but a Black woman would lead me, or at least take me on trial runs?"
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