Emotional Oranges

One Liner: Chill and enjoyable R&B stuff from anonymous duo

Wikipedia Genre: R&B, pop, neo-soul
Home: L.A.

Poster Position: Very Late Addition
Day: Friday at 1:45 on the T-Mobile stage
Weekend One Only.

Thoughts:  Bad band name, but the top single has a very cool vibe to it.  Their Wikipedia explains a few odd things about them.  Number one, they go by letters - A and V - but keep their real identities secret.  A says that they did it to keep their lives normal when offstage.  I wonder if they wear masks on stage?

Number two, "the group formed in 2017 in Los Angeles, California when A, an audio engineer for Drake and "V", a vocal coach for Adele met at a bat mitzvah in 2017."  Why does Adele need a vocal coach?  That seems really weird that one of the greatest voices of our generation needs coaching on how to sing?  Maybe I don't know what a vocal coach does.

They call their fans the citrus squad.  Blech.  That is a bad moniker.

Three albums - 2019's The Juice, Vol. 1, 2019's The Juice, Vol. II, and 2021's The Juicebox.  The top track is from the second disc - "West Coast Love" - with 32.8 million streams.

Dig that laid back vibe right there.  I dig that track for sure.  And the video is a fun, if entirely illegal, mishmash of a million clips from movies.

"Just Like You" is also pretty smooth, off the same album, with 18.5 million streams and an underlying tune that makes me think of an 80's song that requires late night driving in the rain.  Or The Weeknd.

Right - can't you feel that one being a late night driving song?  Something about the synth tone matches up to that really well in my mind.

I'd honestly be more interested in checking this out than just about any other R&B on the poster.  Something about the vibe is just better than the others.