song lyrics explained

[Smallwondergurl]

are they serious, i guess you really no longer have to have talent to write song anymore. It used to be a craft, does no one have any pride in their music anymore, but i guess when Aye baby becomes a number one smash no one cares anymore. I miss being young and listening to real music from the old school like the O'jays, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Luther. I know i'm only 25 but i would rather listen to classic R&B than todays Hip Hop crap that has no meaning to it, whatever happened to songs that made you cry, or feel better. Music is suppossed to send a message, now it's just selling, but hey when you droppin like it's hot i guees idon't really matter do it.

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by LatinaAlumna

^It's everywhere. It's like the "macarena" of 2007. Next, we're going to see Dub-ya doing it.

We (my college friends) said the same thing about "Shake Ya Laffy Taffy." You could do that dance to anything.

Originally Posted by Smallwondergurl

are they serious, i guess you really no longer have to have talent to write song anymore.

Oh, I realized that back at "The Whisper Song."

[Smallwondergurl]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

We (my college friends) said the same thing about "Shake Ya Laffy Taffy." You could do that dance to anything.



Oh, I realized that back at "The Whisper Song."

Don't get me started on that damn song i was so mad when i heard the uncut version, I was beyond pissed and what made it bad was that i was at a kids party and someone started playing it , i was embarrased because when you start hearing little kids say wait to see my..... i said time to go.

[christiangirl]

^^I think I'd rather him listen to that one, too.

Originally Posted by Smallwondergurl

Don't get me started on that damn song i was so mad when i heard the uncut version, I was beyond pissed and what made it bad was that i was at a kids party and someone started playing it , i was embarrased because when you start hearing little kids say wait to see my..... i said time to go.

Whispering at kids' parties...crankin' soulja boys on radio disney....the world's just loading up that handbasket.

My playlist stays with mostly hip hop and R&B from '85-'95. Not exactly old skool, but as far as music, it's my favorite time period ever.

ETA: I just remembered the time somebody posted the Whisper Song lyrics on this board and CT4 moderated like a beast. It was high-larious to see her open up a cyber-can. That poor girl didn't know what hit her.

[Smallwondergurl]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

^^I think I'd rather him listen to that one, too.



Whispering at kids' parties...crankin' soulja boys on radio disney....the world's just loading up that handbasket.

My playlist stays with mostly hip hop and R&B from '85-'95. Not exactly old skool, but as far as music, it's my favorite time period ever.

ETA: I just remembered the time somebody posted the Whisper Song lyrics on this board and CT4 moderated like a beast. It was high-larious to see her open up a cyber-can. That poor girl didn't know what hit her.

If i was the mod i would have done so too. what i don't like most is the parents who choose to ignore what the songs are saying, or those parents who pretend it's not wrong until their kids say i was following the song then they want to sue the artists that made the music instead of turning it off and putting there foot down

[christiangirl]

^^^Hahaha, AMEN!

My mother never really monitored what I was listening to because I was such a good girl (read: ridiculously moralistic and uptight) that she trusted I would never listen to anything inappropriate. I can only remember two times when she took a CD away and those were songs by TLC--I'd listen to anything that was by them, whether it was inappropriate or not. I remember when I first heard "T-Shirt" by Destiny's Child. I practically went into cardiac arrest thinking of what would happen to me if my father-manager heard me sing those words.

This brings up a question. There was a song pretty far back by Ashanti and Ja-Rule and one of the lines was "I love it when you thug me, baby." Exactly what is "thugging" a woman?

[Smallwondergurl]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

^^^Hahaha, AMEN!

My mother never really monitored what I was listening to because I was such a good girl (read: ridiculously moralistic and uptight) that she trusted I would never listen to anything inappropriate. I can only remember two times when she took a CD away and those were songs by TLC--I'd listen to anything that was by them, whether it was inappropriate or not. I remember when I first heard "T-Shirt" by Destiny's Child. I practically went into cardiac arrest thinking of what would happen to me if my father-manager heard me sing those words.

This brings up a question. There was a song pretty far back by Ashanti and Ja-Rule and one of the lines was "I love it when you thug me, baby." Exactly what is "thugging" a woman?

lol i will have to pull up that song it's been a while since i listened to ja Fool i mean rule......lol no i was craking up thinking of when my lil sister was singing some song called t shirt and panties on my mom literally natched the damn cd player out of the wall and cracked the cd in half , and for the life of me at the time thought it was the most craziest thing she had done, but my sister was so mad. I don't remember who wrote that song but i swear some of the most misogynistic music will be played and some women are like that's my song, and others are like oh hell to the no!. I die laughing half the time watching my husbands reaction to the videos shown on BET.

ooooh better yet for them old school heads does anyone remember the groups that was in Spike Lee's School Daze Movie with that song "Doin Tha Butt" I swear i remember i was 7 or 8 yrs old and remember the dance too i die laughing when i think about it. this was the original fools song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQUgFNEGmGI

[Ten/Four]

Originally Posted by Smallwondergurl

are they serious, i guess you really no longer have to have talent to write song anymore. It used to be a craft, does no one have any pride in their music anymore, but i guess when Aye baby becomes a number one smash no one cares anymore. I miss being young and listening to real music from the old school like the O'jays, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Luther. I know i'm only 25 but i would rather listen to classic R&B than todays Hip Hop crap that has no meaning to it, whatever happened to songs that made you cry, or feel better. Music is suppossed to send a message, now it's just selling, but hey when you droppin like it's hot i guees idon't really matter do it.

I'm with you. It's rare that I listen or buy today's artists. My ipod stays on my old school playlist.

[christiangirl]

^^^Ditto. (well, early 90s is about as old skool as I get, if that's what you meant--I'm not really clear on when the skools divide, lol)

[Smallwondergurl]

Originally Posted by christiangirl

^^^Ditto. (well, early 90s is about as old skool as I get, if that's what you meant--I'm not really clear on when the skools divide, lol)

lol i could take t back to the 20's if i really wanted to but i go back as far as the 50's through the end of the 90's , with a splash of jill scott, KEM, Koffee Brown, Glenn Lewis, Kindred the Family Soul, Erykah Badu, I could go on.
hell i could watch vh1 soul all day, but being that i am in the UK i have no access to my soul music except through the internet , funny thing about the brits they love to remix the hell out of everything and it gets old real fast.

[Smallwondergurl]

So many times you could have walked away
But I didn’t have to say a word to convince you to stay
‘Cause you know it and I know this thing is real
So we continue to learn and our love grows deeper still

Each day I watch you get better at this
Each moment I’m more and more convinced
We trust in love, we took the risk
We ran our own pace
We won our race
And I could never turn away

Chorus
We’ve come so far
Stars look up at you baby
My heart belongs
Right here next to you baby

If I had just one wish
It would be to stay together
Stay together, let’s grow together
It’s not much to ask of us
I know we can do it
I always knew it

Always look at me the way you do today
Treat me like a friend
Listen to what I say
Cause girl I'm wit'chu, wit'chu
All the way
I would never turn away

Chorus
We've come so far
Stars look up at you baby

I'm here baby
For you baby

My heart belongs
Right here next to you baby

Repeat chorus

Always comfort me
The same way you do today
Treat me like a friend
Listen to what I say
I would never turn away

Repeat chorus


I plan to progam my husbands Ipod with this song before he leaves for Iraq again it's called Stars by Kindred the family soul, and i would prefer this to the dethmetal that he trys to make me go deaf with lol

[Smallwondergurl]

Originally Posted by Ten/Four

I'm with you. It's rare that I listen or buy today's artists. My ipod stays on my old school playlist.

I still have a love for Neo soul artists but hip hop i don't buy it unless it i really can deal with the lyrics. but even with the old school music, hip hop has no real originality to the music, everybody is samplin and lets not forget Diddy(king of unoriginality) damn bad boy for life whatever.
Hell me and my mom got into a discussion about sampling due to her not realizing the song dilema was sampled from a lady of soul herself Patti Labelle. we cracked up for days on that one cause i finally was able to say mom i think you got that one wrong, but we have a good relationship. we swap playlists over the internet and sometimes i burn a cd for her and it will be months before she needs another one , but yes i really detest this music that generates millions but in 10 years this music will end up as stupid 1 hit wonders

[TotallyWicked]

Originally Posted by Smallwondergurl

I miss being young and listening to real music from the old school like the O'jays, the Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Luther. I know i'm only 25 but i would rather listen to classic R&B than todays Hip Hop crap that has no meaning to it, whatever happened to songs that made you cry, or feel better. Music is suppossed to send a message, now it's just selling, but hey when you droppin like it's hot i guees idon't really matter do it.

>>>we are here!<<<<

I went to a school ball last night..and they cut up with alot of old R&B and soul...they played alot of MJ songs from thriller (guess cause of the anniversary), the jackson 5, and ol skool hip hop (at least to me) [treat em right, push it, din da da, etc.) and I was so feeling it!

Then they played crank dat and I just had to sit down...aren't people tired of this song yet?! I felt embarrassed for the folks dancing..luckily they cut it short and played dancehall..


but seriously this is just a spur of the moment song..I don't see people doing this 10 yrs from now "It's not about making the hit...it's about makin the classic!!"