I get so emotional finds Tawale performing as various musical stereotypes while singing the lyrics of Whitney Houston’s ‘I get so emotional’. Tawale unravels the fantasy Houston represents — of ‘making it’ as an icon of contemporary black, female identity — through her humorous cover of this song, playing out the complex shifts in character and circumstance that this requires. Speaking of the important role that pop music plays in her work, Tawale says:

A pop song is so in line with how you feel about something but also at the same time a total fantasy.