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I remember looking up and seeing all of these cranes in the sky. We weren’t out there wilin’ out and partying.
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You recorded a lot there as well, and I think we experienced Miami as a place of refuge and peace. There was a new condo going up every ten feet. I used to write and record a lot in Miami during that time, when there was a real estate boom in America, and developers were developing all of this new property. And I think every woman in her twenties has been there-where it feels like no matter what you are doing to fight through the thing that is holding you back, nothing can fill that void. I was working through a lot of challenges at every angle of my life, and a lot of self-doubt, a lot of pity-partying. So I really had to take a look at myself, outside of being a mother and a wife, and internalize all of these emotions that I had been feeling through that transition. You see the world through the lens of how you identify and have been identified at that time. We were junior high school sweethearts, and so much of your identity in junior high is built on who you’re with. I was just coming out of my relationship with Julez’s father. It’s the only song on the album that I wrote independently of the record, and it was a really rough time. In an interview with her fellow musician and sister Beyoncé, Solange spoked to Interview Magazine about the song: ““Cranes in the Sky” is actually a song that I wrote eight years ago. “Cranes in the Sky” is a slow R&B track where Solange details her attempts at avoiding her internal feelings that are making her sad or angry.
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In 2018, NPR ranked “Cranes in the Sky” as the #12 greatest song by a female or nonbinary artist in the 21st century. The track was written by Knowles with Raphael Saadiq, along with them producing the track with Sir Dylan. “Cranes in the Sky” is the third track from R&B singer and songwriter Solange Knowles and her 2016 album “A Seat at the Table”.