Sweet Soul Music
Girls can endure any type of music if they are in a night club or a in pub but there are few musical styles which really appeal to women. If you play slow tempo ballad with a smooth soul singer you can really make it to a girls heart, well you know that a Barry White bass voice often transport a girl imagination into “love galaxy.”
You see in every girl there is a loathing for what the marketing men have done with music over the past two decades. They often want to go back and listen to the very earliest soul music whether it was Oiis Redding, Sam Cook or early Aretha Franklin when there was a blur between what soul and gospel were.
I have seen a fascist comedian decry women for loving Motown but you have to understand that some quality vibes were played then From the Supremes to Smoky Robinson to the early Jackson five.
What she realises that she was truly spoiled and that she should have appreciated those times before electronics took over from musician playing real instrument. These days musicians are very happy to let the public know that they are miming over pre-recorded material, have they no shame?
She often hears covers by “here today and gone tomorrow” musicians of hits but although the sound clean but they are missing the emotion, in fact soul. You see soul was always an intangible quality, you knew it when you felt it but you could never describe it.
Soul music was about love and compared to the near nude girls who are in hip-hop videos let alone the explicit and exploitative lyrics. You can see why soul music appeal because it was the ultimate girl music. Can anyone honestly compare Marvin Gaye with Tupac “Thug Life”? As for the female singers around today, they should learn to dress less like hookers and go to church where all the soul singers came from. You see they really have to cover for their lack of class by wearing mini skirts.
Yes there is something great about soul music especially thhat old fashioned stuff, like Teddy Pendergrasss and Marvin Gaye man that stuff was too good. I also agree that female arists were better dressed then.
dawkinswatch
April 16, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Commenting ya own post lol.
But yeah, for me Tupac > Marvin Gaye. For my Dad, it’d probably be the opposite. My girl don’t like this style music either.
imaG
April 16, 2008 at 10:09 pm
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April 23, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Hum…I hear you. The intangible appeal of “Soul Music” to the soul is undeniable. The goal of music is no longer the same though. Music, once that thing which brought us together to release and have fun, absent of million dollar contracts and marketing ploys, is now the very thing from which we seek to escape often times. I love hip-hop, I was raised on it, but I also love Ella, Dinah, Billy and Ellington, which my grandmother would drink her red wine to and remember her youth. The majority of listeners today are dumbed down, the EBP in me maybe, and find it difficult to relate to anything except blatant sexual overtures and hyped up heavy tones. This is the flaw in our allowing our art forms to become distorted by outsiders, their money and their goals for what should sooth our souls.
nita
April 30, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Hmmmm…
I will admit that I do love soul music. In fact, I love any kind of music that touches the soul. I also will agree that the goal of mainstream music is to make money, however, I won’t banish all hip-hop or all current artists either. Because while a lot of it is mysogynistic and pointless, a lot of these artists are speaking their truth. And there are a lot of singers who are simply modern-day updates of artists from another time.
Prime example, Beyonce is our generation’s Tina Turner. Let’s be clear, blatant sexuality has always existed in black music. In its early phases, R&B was ridiculed for its “lewdness.” It is the standard of lewdness that has changed and the music has just adapted to it.
And yes, I love the way Marvin Gaye and Donny Hathaway make love to my ears. However, when I’m in my mode where I’m trying to get focused, you’d better believe I’m throwing on Jay-Z’s “Reasonable Doubt” or Big’s “Sky’s the Limit.” And I find the same truth and soul that marked Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin On” album in the undertones of some of Pac’s more politically-minded songs on “Thug Life.”
Skinny Black Girl
June 10, 2008 at 10:57 am