OvercomerBride

Rapture-Ready Yeshua Believer, Evangelist, Author, Poet, Blogger, Great-Grandmother, Retired Educator, USAF Veteran, AKA Soror, Music Lover

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#BlackMusicMonth

Me:

"I Got the Feelin'" - James Brown

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#BlackMusicMonth

Raise your hand if, as you’ve grown older and developed a more mature ear, you've thought, “Now why them people let me listen to this when I was a mere child?”

Me:

"It's Your Thing" - Isley Brothers

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#BlackMusicMonth

The world is a runway, your life is a movie, and you’re the center of the universe for 2 minutes and change, when you turn into the star and put on a SHOW. ​

Me:

“What Have I Done (To Make You Mad)” – Linda Jones

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correction . . .

“What’ve I Done (To Make You Mad)” – Linda Jones

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#BlackMusicMonth

1- Music critics once called sampling "lazy," but it is now recognized as an art form known as audio collage. A sample flip is a radically manipulated, chopped, or rearranged snippet from an old vinyl or vocal line that results in an entirely new instrumental or

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The "Let Me Prove My Love To You" sample flip snippet Keys uses begins at the 1:44 mark and goes to the 2:11 mark, and begins again at the 2:32 mark and is repeated until the song ends.
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#BlackMusicMonth
1- When people talk about what’s missing from R&B, yearning is near the top of the list. The vulnerability, the pleading, putting your entire heart into the lyrics…is now rare.

​My pick:
“3 Minutes 2 - Hey Girl” ​(aka “Three Minutes To Hey Girl”) ​–George Kerr

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(​Mr. Emontion, as Kerr is called, gives a 1:25 intro of old school rap before he ​starts singing)

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#BlackMusicMonth
1- Today should be fun. One thing about the US is that we love entertainers who have shenanigans in their skill set. Runs, key changes, sweeping emotions you can feel through the music…we want all of that - when it’s done right.

My favorite "hootin', hollerin',

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or carrying on" song is as follows:
“Funkin' for Jamaica” – Tom Browne

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#BlackMusicMonth

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@soaplover5 Well, Brooke, I hope you didn't forget that #Hope is a Spencer. #BoldandBeautiful

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@jobrdais Has LG replaced their former fave in a bikini: JMW? #BoldandBeautiful

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#BlackMusicMonth

1- One of the hallmarks of adulthood for Black folks is being able to turn to someone younger than you and proclaim about whatever song may be playing: “you don’t know nothin’ bout this!”

It might be a deep cut. It might be older than everybody in the room. It

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one day.

My “you don’t know nothin’ bout this” song is as follows:

“I Sit In My Room” – The Soul Crusaders