Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 1:35
#Perspective | "Moonlight and love songs"... are they out of date in modern romance? Love Songs and Moonlight bring on many sexual things.
I bet that song brought hugs and kisses and days under the covers in the bed. I was so nervous on my date at night. I looked up to see the sky. It was dark, it wasn't bright. Moonlight was beaming down and I was nervous. I was young, but I looked into his eyes as he leaned in closer to me. I knew a kiss was coming, so I closed mine too and I waited patiently. The song that was playing was so romantic and kind
Erica Jean
@HeyItsErica · 0:15
Hi, Evelyn. Beautiful. Just beautiful words. And I co sign that love songs are here to stay. They're here forever. Thank you for sharing this
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 0:26
Hey, Erica. Thank you so much. Girl, love songs have brought me through, you hear me? Like, over the years have. They're the soundtrack of my life. R b love songs, gospel, some classical, jazz, but for the most part, love songs, baby. Love songs. So definitely, thank you so much
javon johnson
@motoblanco · 3:22
And the sad part about it, that music is gold, because if you don't have the original vinyl, it's not like you're going to go on Spotify or apple music and pull up those records because, I mean, you may find a few of them, but they're not going to be there because it's too far back. These records came out in the mid eighty s or late seventy s or whatever, and it's too far back. Earth, wind and fire and
You had smooth jazz, which is different than regular jazz. You had adult contemporary. And all these things are categorized the way they are because they had a certain type of demographic appeal. And so when we think of, like, moonlight and love songs, I don't think they're outdated. I think they're just completely ignored. Because in many ways, we've lost a real understanding of what exactly is an adult relationship
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 2:00
And when I look at different points in my know, different know. One point was gospel. I had a whole Mary J. Blige part, whole Beyonce part, oh, my goodness. Whole earth, wind, and fire thing going, parliament, just, oh, the barge, all kinds of stuff
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 2:39
I think it's interesting that you said that. Well, what I heard you say, and maybe this isn't what you said, but what I heard you say, is that growing up in our generation. I'm 53, so growing up in my generation, the music was different. It was more of a grown up vibe
But then they got to a certain age where they separated themselves from that because they got older, they started working, they started having other interests. They got married. They have boyfriends. Whatever our generation, because of everything that occurred with everything from 911 to the advent of the Internet, the stress of student loans, the anxieties of life, it was never a dynamic that was settled us, in a way, to where we'd be able to transition into the next phase of adulthood
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 3:18
You see what saying, like, I think both of them are brilliant. And the bgs I like know there's so many other, and then you mentioned the group Chicago and what was it? I'm trying to think of that guy's name. Anyway, there were several other artists that were white, that sounded black, and you thought, oh, my gosh, they're so, but it was a groove. I'm telling you, it was a whole vibe
javon johnson
@motoblanco · 3:55
I don't care if, know, Usher or Chris Brown or whatever. It's kind of a bravado. Like, hey, man, come over here. I'm going to turn you out. That's what I'm here for. I'm going to turn you out. And it's just like one channel. There's nothing else out. Mean, as far as what you hear on the radio
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 2:04
I had a big old boom box. If I wanted to catch some music on the radio, I'd have to catch it on WGCI or B 96, something like that. And when I knew they were going to play a song, I'd throw my tape in there and hurry up and press record it when they put the song on, because back then, that's how we would get the songs. But everything then was so, I don't know, rock with you. It just was
Obviously, the music that we listen to today can't sound like it did in the 1990s, but that doesn't mean that you can't continue the long tradition of that love song. And a great deal of it, like you said, is not only cynical, but it's unnecessarily sexual, where there is no vulnerability. It's all just about the braggadociousness of the endeavor of courting. We're not getting anything out of it
Cheyonia Wade
@Chey · 1:38
It. I love how you did that. Yes. That was dope. I. I love me some good RMB, some good love songs. I don't think anything sets the mood. Like, it, like, oh, my. Even when you cook in, like, I don't know if y'all remember those commercials that used to come on and chey used to have. You could buy the cds. You could buy the cds of, like, I don't remember what it was called
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 0:59
Thank you so much, shay. I really appreciate you, girl. I do remember those songs and they would try to sell it on cds or whatever, like love songs or r and b soul, blah, blah, blah, blah. And, yeah, you'd be in the kitchen jamming and then they'd be like, do you like this music? We got this on sale for 1995. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I remember those times
