Heard this song tonight and INSTANTLY fell in love with it. I don't know how it fell under my radar for so long. It reeks of purity and honesty and leaves a bittersweet taste in your mouth. Maybe my heart is trying to tell me something........ OR MAYBE NOT! ( aahaha I know you almost got caught up in my melodrama with that last line) but to cut a long story short its worth a listen or 5 and I'm about to pull up the Chrisette Michele album I downloaded over 2 months ago and pray (against hope) that its not on so I won't have to kick myself for taking so long to actually listen to it. Wish me luck peepz, my ass is still sore from the last time I had to kick myself!
and as an added bonus here's her cover of No Doubt's "Don't Speak" which was beautifully done.
So Ky-mani Marley is the son of the late great Robert Nesta and and table tennis champion Anita Belnavis. I am not about to go into a dissertation about him, I just want to reiterate that he is a SEXY BEAST! Almost as sexy as my future husband (a girl can dream sigh!) his brother Damian. Ladies, enjoy.... Gentlemen... doh hate!
And as an extra bonus a little compilation video (I didn't create it) of the song from the movie One Love also starring Cherine Anderson.
My grandfather died last night. He and my grandmother have been painfully divorced for almost 60 years. I lost touch with him. It's been three years that I've been promising to visit him. I didn't, now he's gone. This is how I feel.....
“Funny thing is, the physical nudity is nothing,” Badu Tweeted. “I been naked all along in my words actions and deeds. That’s the real vulnerable place.” -Erykah Badu (on the controversy surrounding the video).
Ok ppl so this is Erykah Badu's new music video for the song Window Seat. I don't know how much longer its going to be available because they're being taken off of youtube as quickly as it's being put up. Everybody has conflicting opinions on everything concerning this video. What its about, did she look good (of course the creepy guys and the vain bitches will think about this), Should she have done it in a public place, will she get arrested, is there an uncut version (pervs again!)and most importantly did she disrespect the memory of the late president JFK.
When I say that there's conflicting opinion believe me I ain't lyin'. For every sing question I just asked there were people going Yes No & Maybe, and not well I only searched the web for about 10 mins before because I know I wanted to post this and I want to be well informed.
Well since this is my blog and its all about me, Me, ME!!!! (whoo, diva moment lol) I'm going to give you my opinions on these question, short answers though because I'm sleepy.
1) What its about: Well Erykah says its a protest against groupthink, which is when people lose their individuality and follow the general consensus especially in a negative way especially against their own betterjudgement to avoid conflict (if you want the best example of them all, I'm sure that there at least one genius in the crowd when Jesus was put to trial that thought it was folly to kill an innocent man but who was shouting "Free Barrabas" just as loudly as the rest of them. But anyway that was God's will and I for one am very grateful that Christ sacrificed his earthly life so that we can have an eternal one. HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY!) But I agree with Erykah, when people don't think for themselves bad things happen.
2) Did she look good.: Pervy guys say yes vain bitches say no. My vote is with the pervs on this one. Erykah Badu is a natural woman, a mother (pregnancy does some stuff to ur physique) and 39!!!!! I'm 24 and I'm in worse shape than that. (Although we do have the same body shape and I swear we have the same ass!!!! lol. Dude i had to check her tattoos 2ce because I swore i saw an angel on her back for a split second lol , maybe I can be her body double, lmao or maybe not...) but anywho not that it matters because the video wasn't about that but she represent a natural black woman and we look like that hun with all our extras and it is beautiful. vain bitches get over yourselves!
3) Should she have done it in a public place: Ok so I am admitting to a bias here. I treat the arts as a spoilt favourite child. It can do no wrong. If some idiot just decided to strip in the road I'd say jail the idiot but it was in the pursuit of art and enlightenment so I'd say its ok but I know I'm wrong because it was wrong anyway you take it but I don't care so the favourite kid wins again.
OK SO I'M SLEEPY SO I'LL FINISH THIS POST TOMORROW BUT I SILL DON'T WANT TO SAVE THIS IN DRAFTS BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG THE VIDEO WILL BE UP SO I'LL JUST EDIT THIS POST TOMORROW.
Ok So I'm finishing the rest now (3 days l8r lol)... where was I.
4) Should she get arrested: Well she got charged with a misdemeanor for it. I know nothing about legalities so I don't have much of an opinion on this 1. I assume she will just have some fines to pay.
5)Is there an uncut version: YA PERVS!!!!I hear there is, if there is I don't want to see it and if it circulated she could be in even bigger trouble so I'm hoping it was destroyed right after editing ( which is what someone else said happened)
6) Did she disrespect the memory of the late president JFK: Respect is a subjective thing so everyone will have conflicting opinions about this. I'm not American so I'm not confident that I have the right to judge how they should feel according to how someone has treated one of their greatest icons. I understand why she did it. The cause that she was promoting in the video was something he was passionate about and showed great innovation trying to prevent. Some even say that this dynamism that got him killed. Maybe it was to jolt people into remembering what he stood for and to remember to try to emulate it. I don't know
All I know is that this video makes you think, it makes you talk and it makes you learn. And for that, I like it.
Anyone who knows me knows how fantabulous this video will be to me.
This is Lauryn Hill
At amateur night
At the Apollo
Singing the classic "Who's Loving You"
WHEN SHE WAS 13!!!!!!!!
I am so excited!, Enjoy and goodnight everyone, see you tomorrow God's willing!
Two of the sexiest guys in music right now. Don't hate on me, I didn't say they were the biggest I said they were the sexiest, Travis McCoy & Bruno Mars- Billionaire!!!!
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you. I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own. They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on. One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head. People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.
Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up. If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
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