Ashanti Goes Sci-Fi For "The Woman You Love"

Ashanti makes a grand return after her 4-year hiatus and cranked up the push with a music video for her big comeback single, "The Woman You Love," the lead single from her next studio installment "Braveheart," hits stores April 17th. The Jerry Wonda-produced track featuring rapper Busta Rhymes as Ashanti looks stylish while suffering through a breakup and gets galactic as she sings about the love she tried to keep but had to let go in this Sean Coles-directed Sci-Fi inspired video.
Produced by Jerry "Wonda" Duplessis, the track definitely targeted towards the R&B/Hip-Hop crowd and features a thumping beat and a grooving bass line with hard-hitting rhymes over her broken heart lyrics about a failed relationship with no reconciliation in sight. The song features a pulsating backdrop, and Ashanti singing about a love interest who wasted her time, despite her trying her best to make him happy, while Rhymes caps off the song by admitting the man's guilt and looking for a second chance, before insisting that he's gone for good if he leaves.
It's been years since Ashanti was at the forefront of the R&B world and the 31-year-old Grammy winner's first indie release, Ashanti's taking it back to basics. She says that she has experienced many of the same struggles the characters in the film had to deal with. "The Woman You Love" harks back to the hard-edged hip-hop of the 90s, and it should please Ashanti stans and urban listeners alike, but it may be a little too edgy to crossover like the diva's past records have. The R&B diva combines drama with Sci-Fi as she blasts into space and looks back upon a failed relationship.
The music video follows a tortured soul who floats into the future and learns to deal with her heartache the best she could. Ashanti is a time traveler who seeks refuge from her broken heart and called on actor/model Marcus Patrick to serve as her disgruntled lover in the clip, which is hoped will give the track the boost it needs. The "Foolish" hitmaker is floating into the future while remembering her doomed relationship with a boyfriend and learning that "the only way to heal is to accept and let go of the past."