Posted in: Musicouching by Tasha J on June 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments
When you are relaxing at home and decide to turn on your radio for a smooth quiet storm session, wouldn’t you rather hear a song of substance, a song you could relate to or a song that takes you on a journey? Whether it is regarding an old flame from back in the day, or whether its regarding a certain family member or a situation that has greatly influenced your life. Aren’t songs suppose to help build upon memories and enable you to generate new memories? I know that each reader of this article can remember where they were, or who they were with when a certain songs comes on the radio. Why don’t we have the same feeling in today’s music.
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I miss the good old days where just about every song meant something. The music industry had a certain requirement or standard that had to be achieved, every song had be a hit. I am certain this requirement can be quite difficult to achieve and this is where the display of your true talent comes into play. Even the artists of the old school that were pronounced one hit wonders had a song that will be implanted into the minds of every teenager turned full-fledged adult. Remember songs like, “let’s stay together” by Al Green
or “I will survive” by Gloria Gainer or even “Between the Sheets” by the Isley Brothers. This era of music was stemmed from a long line of artists that were not afraid of making music that really spoke to your heart, soul and empowered your mind. Music was a revolutionary mechanism that was both thought provoking and empowering at the same time. I was born into the seventies era, however; the music that I mostly related to was the 90’s R&B. This era consisted of artists such as; Mary J. Blige, Silk, Az Yet, Solo, Jodeci, Jagged Edge, Donnell Jones, etc. The artist of this era had valued the art of love making and painted a picture of the trials and tribulations of relationships while exhibiting the joys of having a good relationship that expressed the need for telling the one you love exactly how you feel and how your life will be incomplete without that significant other in your life. These songs let the listener know that they were not afraid to cry for the one they love, these songs made the listener feel as though the artist is singing to them. You felt every word, you felt the compassion of the artist. These songs compelled you to buy their album just to see what else they have to say. Yes, those were the good old days. I remember, Keith Sweat, although, he caught slack from the men because they referred to him as “oh here we go, it’s that begging brotha Keith Sweat again, turn him off” I always liked the way Keith just cut to the chase. On his song “I give all my love to you” his first verse started with “I love you” and every word after that painted a picture of how bad this man loves his woman, sure…he may have been talking about sex, however, he didn’t just say “you look good girl and I want to jump your bones,” no he described what he wanted to do and how he wanted to do it and at the end of the day he wanted to make that woman his woman and he let the listener know that he needed to desperately love someone. His lyrics made my heart melt. All of his songs had to deal with love as well as the heartache that goes along with of losing the one you love.
