Halle – His Type

That is the quiet sting in the title. It is not about meeting the wrong person or being hurt by anyone in particular. It is about measuring yourself against someone else’s preference and wondering where you fit. In our world of photos and filters, many young women, and men too, have had that thought while scrolling through a partner’s old pictures.

Nigerians understand this very well. We hear it in family conversations, in comments about complexion and height, and in jokes at weddings about who is whose kind of person. A phrase like this one touches a very ordinary insecurity, the sense that taste is something you cannot change no matter how hard you try.

The record appears on love?… or something like it (Deluxe), and the lowercase title keeps the tone private, like a thought written in a notebook. The album name carries a question mark, and this track seems to be one of the places where that doubt becomes personal.

It is a title for the moment after a date that went well but left you wondering whether you were ever what he was really looking for.

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