The other day my iPod was crusin' on shuffle, and this song popped up.
I've played it at least thirty times since yesterday, many of those times were consecutive. Theophilus has a tendency to make songs that put one in a trance... a dancing, grooving trance.
And it's hella seductive and sexy.
Just listen.
Enjoy!
~`*Tina
In my head, I've been compiling a list of songs to play when I get my first apartment (the first few apartments are for parties, anything after that is for gatherings). I've posted a few of them on the blog, and this is another for the list.
This song it took me a long time to warm up to, I didn't understand the groove it was going for.
"Knocked Down" by The Cool Kids [Music Video] from Mid C Media on Vimeo.
The video made me realize it's proper place.
Enjoy!
Feel free to steal the playlist.
~`*Tina
I really like music and I really adore dancing, so it's only right that when alone, I perform in front of an audience of one- my pillow pet Kigali.
She's the best kind of audience. Silent, listens, and gives an approving stare and smile.
That being said, when in my room, I plug my iPod up to its dock and hit shuffle.
This song comes on and I think, This song needs a routine...
There is snapping. There's Thriller-esque zombie moves. Lots of emotional hand gestures. And yes, I do sing/scream. Loudly.
Make your own routine. You come up with one yourself.
~`*Tina
I love crunk music. It makes me laugh, makes me excited, gives me that false sense of gangsta.
That being said, today I was listening to this song and thought, "It was a perfect idea to bring Ice Cube on this track."
Ice Cube is one of the forefathers of gangsta rap, being one of greatest writers the genre has ever seen. I find him amazing for the things he gets away with saying in this song, like
"Diana Ross!"
"Get yo' testifying ass in the trunk!"
"Helter Skelter!"... among other things.
Just listen and enjoy (the unedited version is o'er here).
GO NUTS.
~`*Tina
I am in a splendid mood. Aside from my low threshold for heat (you see, I wear more or heavier stuff in the winter, but can't move as much as I begin to melt quickly. That's why I've developed a habit of not wearing coats or jackets at all, but that's neither here nor there...), the weather is treating me well, and school is in session.
So being that my ipod and I are becoming more in touch with one another after a month or so of only car listens, I'd like to share some dopeness with you.
Enjoy your day!
~`*Tina
I'm fixing to just stop apologizing for my absesnces and get on with the music. Y'all know how it is.
Anywho, I blame my absence on not finding music that moves me enough to share, so lemme just get out all of the songs that I've been feeling over the past few weeks.
I really wasn't that excited for N.E.R.D.'s latest album, "Nothing". Therefore, I let it come and go without a second glance. That was a mistake, because when I heard Mike G's take on one of their songs from the album, I felt like an idiot.
The same goes for Corinne Bailey Rae's "The Sea", I was afraid to listen to it for fears that it was hella sad and depressing. I was half-right, but it shouldn't have stopped me from gems like this.
This is a mix of Beyonce's "Diva" coupled with N.E.R.D.'s "Everyone Nose" I found on Tumblr a week or so ago, it has brightened my boring days.
And here's another N.E.R.D. song that is killing it in my car on the way to work. Although there's a complicated compliment in the lyrics, in which Pharrell says, "they treated you like do-do... they were right, you're the shit." I laugh every time I recite that part.
This song is too adorable, I can't wait to play it in the summer.
I love Seu Jorge's voice, and this song came into play while I was listening to the Jorge Ben Jor Pandora station. I couldn't stop dancing.
I like to dance, so Spank Rock has been in rotation ever since Yoyoyoyoyo. This song is no different, 'cept for the part where Big Freedia comes in and I LOSE MY MIND.
This is one of my father's favorite albums, and therefore, has a few songs I'm familiar with as well. I was excited as hell when I came home one afternoon and saw it sitting on his computer desk, apparently he had rediscovered it deep inside a box in the shed. I ripped it immediately.
That's the gist of what's new in my music library. Hopefully this'll jolt all of us into some kinda music frenzy and everything'll be back on schedule.
~`*Tina
Hey you guys! I'm busy working on intership applications this Christmas, but I wanted to stop by and say Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy "Channukah, with a CH", and Happy Kwanzaa. (Be sure to give out your "What the hell is Kwanzaa books too", word to Futurama.)
I didn't have time to scour out a Christmas diddy that you haven't heard before, so look through the archive of JLM for all of my holiday favorites.
Have a safe and happy Holiday season and I'll see you guys during New Years.
Feliz Natal,
~`*Tina
I was with my dad, headed to the airport one morning a few years ago when my dad got into the car with a flash drive he had been working on all night and into the morning. He got in eagerly and said, "I got a new playlist! Riding music!"
The playlist included eight minute funk classics, ten minute rap classics (in which my father portrayed every member of the Funky Four + 1 More, and even the crowd cheering "Ho! Ho!"), and the occasional funk ballad (my favorite). Then this song came on and he shouted, "Bet you don't know nothing bout this, Tina!"
He was right, I didn't know anything about the song, I had caught up to De La Soul the year the Grind Date was released (2004), and I had gotten their Greatest Hits album. I figured I had done all the research I needed, I was far too preoccupied in my Neo-Soul phase to touch Hip Hop at the moment, and had, as years passed, completely failed to explore De La any further than what I heard at random times.
That was a mistake, and I'm now making up for lost, lost, lost time, and buying albums I should've bought when they came out (two years before I was born).
So yeah, anyway,
ENJOY!
PS, 3 Feet High and Rising was accepted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the same year Steely Dan's Aja was, and their song "Peg" is sampled in this jam right here.
~`*Tina
I've spoken about Amerie and Beyonce before, but now it's just getting frustrating.
My father suggested this one, and I couldn't agree more.
Amerie
could have easily mastered Beyonce's
Don't you think?
~`*Tina
This song, on this album, was the first time I heard a lot of things.
It was the first time I heard anything with Little Brother.
It was the first time I heard an Al Jarreau song sampled.
It led me to a lot of things as well.
I ended up in a HEAVY anything related to Little Brother phase.
It led me to finding out that Al Jarreau’s “Agua de Beber” (the song sampled that keeps looping, “My heart a flower…) was a cover of a Brazilian bossa nova classic, and that only furthered my exploration in Brazilian Portuguese and music.
I owe a lot to this one song, and it ain’t half bad to jam to either.
“Oh that’s my song, dere!”
~`*Tina
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