Entertainer Tisha Campbell-Martin has been missing in the music scene for the past two decades, having been busy with her acting career. But with her new single "Steel Here," the singer-slash-actress has certainly come back with a bang.
According to Billboard, the music video of "Steel Here" is all about the freedom of forgiveness. Campbell-Martin used it to say goodbye to the feelings of anger, despair, negativity, and low self-esteem—all of which were associated with the sexual abuse she experienced when she was just three years old.
On her Twitter account (@Tisha4real), Campbell-Martin said the music video showed how she was able to surmount that traumatic experience and show to the world that she's "still here" despite what has happened.
One of the first scenes of the music video shows Campbell-Martin being inked. She was wearing a long black dress and there were words written all over her body, while her make-up ran down her face because of her tears.
A fan named Sammie the Monster tweeted to her saying, "My favourite scene in the video is (you) in the black dress and the words on you! What does that scene represent?"
Campbell-Martin made four consecutive tweets to explain her answer: "The writing on my body and the man writing the letter reps the actual words of an apology letter I recently received ... low self esteem, self-deprecation or any negative emotion being released and the freedom from it. The writing from the person who violated me when I was 3 (years) old. By blessing me (with) the apology letter he allotted me the ability to be free and to forgive."
Another scene showed Campbell-Martin gearing up for a fight, while in another, she looked at peace in white and butterflies flying all over her.
