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\n\tSummer Walker<\/a> has been contemplating a pivot to golddigging since her beloved 2019 studio debut, Over It<\/em>. She broke through by longing for an ever-evasive balance of casual sex and compassion with \u201cGirls Need Love<\/a>,\u201d and then followed it lamenting about a dude \u201cPlaying Games\u201d on her next smash. Yet, amidst the R&B ballads of romantic dissatisfaction that have become Walker\u2019s calling card, she proposed a solution: what if she chose money over love? \u201cSeems like you gain more from a sugar daddy or a drug dealer,\u201d she mused on Over It<\/em>\u2019s \u201cJust Might\u201d (as in \u201cjust might be a ho\u201d). \u201cNo Love,\u201d the biggest single from her 2021 sophomore studio effort, Still Over It<\/em> (an album set against her tumultuous breakup with its most prominent producer, London on Da Track), said it frankly. \u201cAll I\u2019m tryna see is your credit card, swipe it all for me,\u201d SZA<\/a> sang on her guest verse, as if she took the words out of Walker\u2019s mouth. \u201cJust CC me, just VV me\/Just that dick when I call.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tHer latest album, Finally Over It<\/em> <\/a>signals the end of Walker\u2019s trilogy on heartbreak. To mark it, the singer went all in on a marrying-for-money motif. The cover art reimagines an image of then-26-year-old model Anna Nicole Smith<\/a> marrying 89-year-old oil baron J. Howard Marshall in 1994. Smith, famously and unsuccessfully fought for a portion of Marshall\u2019s estate when he died less than two years after their marriage, though Smith insisted she really was in love with him. Walker\u2019s pre-Finally<\/em> loosie \u201cSpend It<\/a>\u201d embodied what much of America thought was actually behind that union \u2013 \u201cI want your black card,\u201d Walker coos. \u201cYou can keep your heart.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tBut what\u2019s really richer now is her sound. \u201cI\u2019m usually just like, \u2018Oh he broke my heart, put it on an 808 trap beat,\u2019\u201d Walker admitted<\/a> jokingly to Complex\u2019s Speedy Mormon about her approach up to this point (which is, in fact, a bit of an oversimplification). \u201cNow we\u2019re trying different things.\u201d To that end, Finally Over It<\/em> leans deep into the lushness of R&B maestros from the 1990s and early 2000s \u2013 waymakers like Bryan Michael Cox, Kuk Harrell, and Troy Taylor. Her layered vocals feel fuller and more intentional than ever, and she\u2019s thanked<\/a> the greats for teaching her their techniques outright.\u00a0<\/p>\n