In late August 2020, Jazmine Sullivan released "Lost One," her first single since 2017, per Rolling Stone. The acoustic-heavy track features Sullivan's sweet pleas to an ex-lover to not move on too fast and forget about her. Although the ballad sings of hope that the ex-lovers will work things out, Sullivan doesn't keep the same energy for too long.
When the Heaux Tales singer released "Pick Up Your Feelings" in November 2020, Sullivan sang out her emotions to a different tune. "Pick Up Your Feelings" is on the opposite side of the spectrum of a breakup, where Sullivan is leaving the past behind her and moving on. Sullivan reveals she's tired of chasing her ex-lover in the lines: "You're off the lease/ Run me my keys/ No more poppin' up to hit it, yeah/ I ain't even got the miles to trip on you." In the second verse, Sullivan doubles down on her decision to move on from her previous relationship and not look back. She sings: "Just for you to go and break my heart again/ I learned my lesson (Last time)/ Woah, and I ain't comin' (Back now)."
Furthermore, she's telling her former beau to "pick up your feelings" in addition to all the other things they left in her apartment. We don't know who exactly Sullivan dedicated this song to, but we can all relate to the feeling of leaving some extra baggage behind us.
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