It’s anyone’s guess what a “TK421” is, but it’s obviously supposed to make you move.
The spirited new single from Lenny Kravitz welcomes repeat play instantly with scrunch-faced rhythm guitar and stadium-sized claps. Here, Kravitz wears the ‘80s dance-funk of Prince like a second skin, embodying the spirit of “D.M.S.R.” in both groove and attitude. He hasn’t committed to this style so fully since “Come on Get It” from Black and White America (2010) or “Supersoulfighter” from 5 (1998), which begs a particular question.
For well over a decade, he’s been gestating a funk-focused project called Negrophilia and “TK421” is pachyderm heavy on that sound. Could it finally be birthed as his upcoming double album Blue Electric Light? We won’t know until it arrives March 15, 2024. For someone as prolific as Kravitz, the six-year gap following his last release Raise Vibration (2018) is an eternity, but he has a game plan to hold people’s attention.
‘Blue Electric Light’ is set to arrive in stores March 15th
The legendary rocker and fashion icon turns 60 next May, but nothing about his sculpted body says so. It’s verifiable in the short for “TK421”—basically a millionaire’s GRWM video—where an au naturel Kravitz romps around an immaculate, white-marbled mansion with the abandon of a teenager out of school for summer. Through shot after shot of barenaked Lennies, he barely blocks the camera from again capturing his babymaker.
Wardrobe malfunctions have nearly ended some careers, but what Kravitz dubbed “#penisgate” in 2015 has only encouraged his long-established comfort with nudity. One could call this gratuitous, but rockstar rules apply. No objections will be heard over the deafening screams of randy Lenny fans going ape over the sights and sounds they crave. So it looks like “TK421” is about to win and win big.
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