{"id":10040754,"date":"2025-02-12T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T16:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/?p=10040754"},"modified":"2025-02-17T10:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:23:47","slug":"shellzwithaz-and-brandie-blaze-spell-out-their-skills-on-new-song-vowels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/2025\/02\/12\/shellzwithaz-and-brandie-blaze-spell-out-their-skills-on-new-song-vowels\/","title":{"rendered":"ShellzWithAZ and Brandie Blaze spell out their skills on new song &#8216;VOWELS&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shellzwithaz\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>ShellzWithAZ<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/brandieblaze\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Brandie Blaze<\/strong><\/a> named their new single &#8220;VOWELS&#8221; because it would incur a chorus of &#8220;oooohs&#8221; and &#8220;ahhhhhs&#8221;? Or is it because the opportunities for &#8220;I O U&#8221; wordplay are just that abundant? Either way, the two homegrown emcees &#8212; from Brockton and Boston, respectively &#8212; spell out their skills and chemistry on the new collab, which arrived at the end of last month (January 31). With &#8220;VOWELS,&#8221; the two women leap off each other&#8217;s verses, trading slightly different versions of the line &#8220;A E I O U \/ I make this shit look good.&#8221; We&#8217;d like to see &#8220;Schoolhouse Rock!&#8221; flip a phonetics lesson into a hook this sticky. Take a seat below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe style=\"border-radius:12px\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/0FLEgQMtOVqJa1NZRIG129?utm_source=generator\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think ShellzWithAZ and Brandie Blaze named their new single &#8220;VOWELS&#8221; because it would incur a chorus of &#8220;oooohs&#8221; and &#8220;ahhhhhs&#8221;? Or is it because the opportunities for &#8220;I O U&#8221; wordplay are just that abundant? Either way, the two homegrown emcees &#8212; from Brockton and Boston, respectively &#8212; spell out their skills and chemistry on the new collab, which arrived at the end of last month (January 31). With &#8220;VOWELS,&#8221; the two women leap off each other&#8217;s verses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4108,"featured_media":10040764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,64],"tags":[26885,22307,26409,27096,35395],"class_list":["post-10040754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boston-news","category-music","tag-brandie-blaze","tag-fast-tracked","tag-header","tag-shellz","tag-vowels"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ShellzWithAZ and Brandie Blaze spell out their skills on &#039;VOWELS&#039;<\/title>\n<meta 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