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SAILORR, our newest GEN F star, has been pushed into the big leagues with her R&B anthem "Pookie's Requiem." She sees you watching.⁠ ⁠ The thing about SAILORR is that she’s Florida through and through. The 26-year-old Vietnamese-American singer (born Kayle Le in Jacksonville) curves her words slightly when she speaks with me on a video call, especially prominent when she peppers in words like “hella” and “vibe.” It shapes the way she croons “To whatever bitch you got in Bushwiiiick” on “Pookie’s Requiem,” the song that introduced the world to her lovelorn R&B. The single that followed, “Cut Up,” takes its title from slang used widely across Florida and the South (to cut up: to start acting up over something). SAILORR is built different, and her music’s approach to love — finding it, losing it, and crashing out — reflects her distinct structure.⁠ ⁠ “Growing up [in Jacksonville], I feel like I didn't really adhere to any social norms or whatever boundaries and binaries people tried to pu...

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