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She crooned his name in a coquettish melisma, inviting him to “tell me how you want me, you look like you want it” while he melted into a puddle.

He asked permission to try it out in front of the London audience, before drifting into a wordless, intimate melisma.

It seemed, even, like every blistering high note, well-turned melisma and swooning falsetto note was greeted with hums of approval and the occasional shout of “C’mon!”

For Day, the reverb of the well provides extra depth to her voice as she crescendos, adding melisma and going up an octave along the way.

If there is anything worth noticing about SZA’s rap-singing/sing-rapping, it might be that instead of relying on melisma — a tactic you hear most often in R&B whenever a single syllable gets taken for a ride across various notes — she prefers to let her words pile up, obeying their contours, coloring them in with whichever pitches and timbres the song demands.