Saturday, February 13, 2010
Posted by Espy
My lovely sister Ayanna was talking to me today about the lack of good male R&B singers. I mean what happened to love songs? Please don't confuse with the everpresent sex songs that are popular (i.e. Trey Songz [not a diss just stating facts]). The above picture is Lee Fields. My dude like 70 and still making better music than people a third of his age. His voice really resonates in the song and the bassline is crazy. J. Cole used this instrumentation in his song on The Warm Up of the same title which u should already own and have on the ipod. Support greatness and download.
The young man above that is Eddie Kendricks. You may be familiar with this little group he was part of called The Temptations. U may also recognize this song from a little singer from New York who used this simple for her Unplugged album hit single.
But not all major artists make crap. Sometimes the real jewels are in their demos or unreleased songs. The-Dream wrote and produced the song below for Mariah Carey for the song H.A.T.E.U.. You can't write something like this without experiencing it. Unfortunately I'm encompassed in the lyrics currently.
And finally we have Teddy Pain. Great song, sounds incomplete since there is only one verse and an open verse on the song. It sounds like it could've been (or still could be a hit) it has a spring/summer vibe to it.
Thanks for the inspiration Yanni.
2 comments:
=) Right on time
I love the hate u song. It's deep, and it means even more if you've ever experienced anything like that before. But that's one of the reasons why I love her, because her music is deep, so dream did a good job writing that.
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