"I am going to come and burn the house down...but you will blow me first." -Mel Gibson
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Shanice - I Love Your Smile
THE 90’s WERE SO FUN!!!!! *jumps for joy*
25th February 2012
Notes: 3
R. Kelly - Half on a Baby
If you’ve ever wanted to see R. Kelly’s dickles, sheathed in silk, this is the video for you. Sayin’ oo na na nahhhhhhh
devonthadude: DMX- We Dont give a Fuck
I LOVE THIS SONG.
Tell ‘em there ain’t nothing like a funeral that’s gonna be yours
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Reblogged From devonthadude
Teena Marie - I Need Your Lovin’
Up until about a week ago, I was not particularly a Teena Marie fan. I always found her voice sort of weak and warbly for my tastes; and I’ll just be real and say I’m not particularly fond of most white female singers. I AM RACIST. Last week, I was on the b.u.s. and Square Biz came on my Rick James Pandora station, and before I could change it, I realized it sounded DOPE.
The technical precision in Square Biz is replicated to a slightly lesser degree in I Need Your Lovin’. I now cannot get ENOUGH of Teena Marie. The lyrics are always hilarious and tongue in cheek; her voice sure ins’t Chaka Khan style that’s for sure, but bitch can SING. And the melodies? Pfft. Flawless. A perfect combination of disco, soul and funk. The best combination you can get.
Played 70 times.The Isley Brothers - Footsteps in the Dark
This is a 2 part post.
Songs often focus on dramatic upswings or downturns; leaving someone, getting left, meeting a new lover, falling in love, getting married, so on and so on. Very rarely are songs (hits, at least) about mundane or everyday actions or emotions that drive us between the moments of falling in love and falling out of it.
Two of my favorite songs deal with a topic rarely discussed on the hit parade: the reevaluation of a relationship. The two songs I’m discussing in particular are Footsteps in the Dark by the Isley Brothers and Heart to Heart by Kenny Loggins.
The old guys from the R. Kelly videos and that yacht rocker from the 80’s, you ask? These people are who you’ve decided to give kudos to for dealing with tough emotional issues in a pop song?
Yes.
As I get older and understand more of the idiosyncratic nature of humans, I ironically have felt drawn to “adult contemporary” artists. This is probably because many of them are GOOD. Yep. It’s the shit your dad listens to in his study when he’s alone. You know why? Because your dad needs a goddamn break from taking care of your dumb, spoiled ass and listening to your mother bitch about the assholes on city council.
Footsteps in the Dark is, to my generation at least, known as the song Ice Cube sampled for his hit “It Was a Good Day”. This is shameful, because Ice Cube can eat dicks compared to the brilliance of the Isley Brothers, and they’re not even in my top 10 favorite musicians list. This song is often touted as a song about infidelity, and while I can understand this interpretation, I see a much softer, vague, blurry meaning: the voice wonders about infidelity both on his part and his lover’s, but it is implied as looking down other corridors and hallways, as a confession we have all gone through if you’ve been with someone long enough. The voice wonders if he loves his partner enough to keep going with this relationship; what other options there are, and whether they’re worth taking. In the end, much like in real life, the voice settles on (for the moment at least) staying with the lover that has been around for so long and gone though so much. The voice, after all, still loves this person and feels it’s worth it to continue the affair with the subtle recommendation they both stay aware of their feelings and appreciate each other. Sage advice.
Footsteps in the Dark
Are we really sure,That a love that lasted for so long,
Still endures?
Do I, really care?
Hey hey,
Let’s talk about the distractions going on elsewhere
I, keep hearing footsteps baby
in the dark, oh in the dark
Why? I keep hearing footsteps baby
In the dark
Oh in the dark, hoo
My mind,
just now and then,
Looking down dark corridors and wonders what might have been
Something’s up ahead,
Hey, should I keep this same direction,
Or go back instead?
I, keep hearing footsteps baby
in the dark, oh in the dark
Why? I keep hearing footsteps baby
In the dark
Oh in the dark, hoo
Honey lets stop walking around
When there’s love lost to be found
Aah, you Know I still care, I still care
What’s the sense in going elsewhere?
Who feels, really sure?
Can I really guarantee your happiness shall endure?
Do we, really care?
Hey hey,
Let’s look at what’s been happining and try to be more aware
I, keep hearing footsteps baby
in the dark, oh in the dark
Why? I keep hearing footsteps baby
In the dark
Oh in the dark, hoo
Lets stop walking around
Well when there’s love, lost to be found
Oh baby, you Know, I still care, I still care
What’s the sense in going elsewhere?
Lets stop walking around
Well when there’s love, lost to be found
Oh baby, you Know, I still care, I still care
What’s the sense in going elsewhere? Played 230 times.
Songs I Dance To In My Apartment
Song 1: Prince - Erotic City
Well, it’s safe to say I’m a fucking pervert. Let’s revisit my other Top Songs I Dance Alone In My Apartment To to recap.
Song 5: Winger’s Seventeen
A song about a sexy 17 year old Kip Winger just has to bang. Side note: I’d bang Kip Winger in the 80’s.
Song 4: Beyonce’s Freakum Dress
A song about Beyonce getting back at her triflin’ ass man by going out in a ho dress and giving dudes boners.
Song 3: Jamiroquai’s Fast Persuader
A song about a bitch who dances so fly, she dances her way into Jay Kay’s bed. Side note: I’d bang Jay Kay.
Song 2: Janet Jackson’s If
A song about fantasies and all that comes with. “If I was your girl, the things I’d do to you…”
And now, we’ve got Prince’s Erotic City.
Can you get a skankier song? No, you can’t. I know, because I’ve looked. By skanky I mean down and dirty, a song made to literally fuck to, or at the very least grind until your pelvic bone is screaming for calcium. The beat to this song is so filthy and filled with so many eargasms I lose count every time I listen to it. Need to practice your hip-swivelling abilities? This is the song to jam to. You’ll be a belly dancing freakbomb in no time.
“I just want your creamy thighs…”
Indeed.
Songs I Dance To In My Apartment
Song 2: Janet Jackson - If
I believe I’ve posted this song on my blog about 40 times at this point-I wouldn’t call myself a huge Janet Jackson fan per se, but I am a huge fan of:
Sex
Sexy people dancing
Amazing choreography
Fantasies
Lyrics about naughty things
Crazy beats
Which kicks “If” up to the very top of the pile of jamz to dance to when you’re all alone.
It’s about fantasies, which lends a slightly virginal quality to a song which is about as dirty as you can get. The beat is distorted, Janet mumbles the lyrics until the chorus, where she orgasmically relates what she’s been doing in bed while thinking about this person, with lyrics like “I’ve gotten there so many times I wonder how ‘bout you” and “your smooth and shiny feels so good against my lips sugar”. !!! So naughty, Janet! The lyrics are really just a side benefit to a song which is so well arranged it puts every single current day pop-R&B star to shame. “If” is my jam, always and forever.
Songs I Dance To In My Apartment
Song 3: Jamiroquai - She’s a Fast Persuader
Truthfully, I used to dance my ass off to Jamiroquai’s Dynamite, one of the best songs ever made. I still do, but “She’s a Fast Persuader” has slowly crept in to replace Dynamite in my repertoire. I like songs with dance beats that slowly morph into sex songs. By sex song I mean something slow but rhythmically substantial-which is exactly what the chorus to this song is. The subtly naughty lyrics don’t hurt either.
I love it when you get on down
And hurt me babe
On your knees
Once again
She’s a fast persuader
Out of space
Escalated to elation any place
Yes, Jay Kay. Yes indeed.
Songs I Dance To In My Apartment
Song 4: Beyonce - Freakum Dress
“Freakum dress” has replaced “ho dress” for most of the population, and this song lends to quite a bit of “ho dancin”, which is the best kind of dancing there is. The beat to this song gets INSANELY SICK about halfway through, and makes bitches (me) drop down to the ground and hump the air like it’s Kip Winger circa 1980whatever. Oh baby. I love this jam.
Might I add Beyonce’s curly wig in this vid gives me a boner? K bye.
Because there is too much depressing shit going on, I present the TOP 5 SONGS I DANCE TO ALONE IN MY APARTMENT.
Song 5: Winger - Seventeen
I really don’t give a fuck about what other people think about Winger, or about this song, which is basically about statutory rape. All I know is it’s the best “80’s slut grind” song to dance to, ever. Not only does this jam force me to gyrate obscenely, lip synch better than Milli Vanilli, and grab “balls from heaven”, it also makes me think about Kip Winger circa 1980whatever, which is awesome. Kip Winger is so fucking insanely hot in this video it’s practically criminal. I’m not really into “hair band dudes” or men that whirl around covered in oil with one quarter of a t-shirt on, but Kip Winger’s face is so deviously feline, and God knows I love men that look like miscreants.
And how.
prince & the revolution - computer blue
(full version / unreleased)
Until I meet a righteous one…Computer Blue
Played 1392 times.James Brown - Get Up Offa That Thing
If songs were graded by diamond clarity, this would be “FLAWLESS”
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