So, this edition of (deemed inappropriate by the Pope) Song of the Week, is a tad late, and I apologize, but I'm sure you all did alright without me, and that means that this week, you get 2 (word/phrase recently "liberated" by Coalition forces) Songs of the Week for the price of 1!
This week's (awkward silence) Song of the Week is...
SWV's "Can We," feat. Missy Elliott
So, this song takes me back. Back in 1997, when SWV released this song on "Release Some Tension," I lived in Massachusetts, I had only been at one school, I still lived with my mother (and we still spoke, but that's a story for another time), and when I was at home, I got pretty much all of my music from the radio. I KNOW, the radio. Anyway, I liked this song back when it first came out, but it wasn't especially noteworthy for me then.
(A note to all of my loyal readers, my greatest shortcoming when writing is that I have NO IDEA when to end a paragraph, so in order to spare you a large mid-sized block of text, I'm going to break now. Just thought you should know, for future reference.)
I didn't even remember what the song was called until I caught myself humming it to myself and found that I had no idea what it was called. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet and the wonderful people at Yahoo (who are NOT, by the way, sponsoring this message), I had soon found the song title and some lyrics, and after hearing the song once, I was hooked.
I guess the main reason "Can We" appeals to me is because of my... let's call it a "musical fantasy." The way I would most enjoy taking in music would be to be in a dimly-lit, smoky room with a cigarette and the music. Preferably, a large, soft chair would be involved, and the room would somehow be in sepia tones, much like D'Angelo's album cover. Anyway, the instrumental for this song immediately evoked the feeling I thought that room would have, had there been such a room. And although the lyrics are standard Top 40 fare, they fit, and besides Missy's ill-advised prattle at the end of the song, it was quite a cohesive little tune, which I have smoked along with many nights in pursuit of my sepia-toned room.
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lol...this kid's good!
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I don't have anything to add to your post other than, yep, love that song.
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Timbaland and Missy at their best. I disagree with calling Missy's verse 'mindless prattle'. I thought it fit the song.
"Take me if ya want it to the Ho-Jo, Up all night like No-Doz..."
Now I gotta try to track this song down.
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well... I've been on a little anti-Missy bender for a while. It's not horrible, really, it just ruins the vibe for me.
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Yeah, but that was the classic Missy. Back when she was on her whole "hee-hee hee-hee how" thing. You gotta listen to the song in it's (time?) context.
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Damn, that reminds me of some rather illicit freashman-dorm adventures...ah, back in the day, when I was a teenager, before i had status, before I had a pager...
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I can see your point. But it's very hard to find truly interesting people if they all act and look the same. Haha.
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I can see your point. But it's very hard to find truly interesting people if they all act and look the same. Haha.
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Haha hey thanks for the comment It was a "Jay-Z" post haha so to say I just wrote it in one sitting But I'm just weird! I write too much haha it's become really flowing for me
You write very well too!