To take on a song so woven into the cultural fabric requires a certain nerve, but Annika Bellamy’s new single, a remake of “Come and Get Your Love,” feels less like a cover and more like an inheritance. With her uncle, T-Bone Bellamy, having been the lightning-rod guitarist for Redbone, and founding member Pat Vegas sanctioning this version, the track arrives with a heavy, significant hum of legacy.
Bellamy’s modern pop-soul interpretation is immediately apparent; the familiar strut of the original is still here, but it’s been given a new pair of shoes—sleeker, smoother, built for a different dance floor. Her vocal delivery carries the song’s confident affirmation with a compelling ease.
Where the 1974 classic was a swaggering, earthy invitation, Bellamy’s is a clean, bright beacon of reassurance. The lyrical core—that bold dismissal of someone’s self-doubt (“What’s the matter with your mind?”) followed by an unwavering celebration of their being—is delivered with such clarity that it stops being a question and becomes a statement of fact. You are fine, period.
Listening to it, I was struck by its directness, a quality that for some reason made me think of an International Klein Blue monochrome painting. There are no gradients, no gentle coaxing or blended shades of meaning. It’s just a pure, unapologetic field of exuberant color, an indivisible offer. This is the sound of that painting: an overwhelming, joyful, and absolute proposition.
The track functions as a dialogue between generations, a family conversation held in public. It honors history not by replicating it, but by proving it can still breathe in a new body, with new lungs. The result is a profoundly uplifting piece of pop that leaves you with one simple, slightly nagging question: are we brave enough to accept an invitation so absolute?
