Year-end review January 7, 2009
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Recently, we’ve reflected on past loves, old flames and new adventures. Here’s a year-end review, though, that you HAVE to check out!
Enjoy!
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id.6398/title.skillz-2008-wrap-up
Hold me when I hear… December 9, 2008
Posted by MsLady in music, Relationship.Tags: boyfriend, boyz II men, couples, day 26, mslady, music, tlc
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Some music videos made me so jealous in those sans-boyfriend times. Especially holiday jams. Here are a few of the videos that made me want to cuddle up with a warm, hot chocolate (and I’m not talking about the drink).
TLC’s “Sleigh Ride” (watch her rub that bald head):
Boyz II Men and Brian McKnight, “Let it Snow”:
And, hopefully, we’ll get a new video from one of my favorite Bad Boy groups, DAY 26. Here’s the track, which is supposed to be available on I-Tunes today! But you get a sneak peak here!
These are a few tunes that get my warm and fuzzies going.
Holla back about yours!
Js at the wedding?!?! December 8, 2008
Posted by MsLady in music, Relationship.Tags: blackstreet, kenny lattimore, michael jordans, montez, mslady, music, style, wedding
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Speaking of marriage, Montez and I have been talking about what we’d like our weddings to look like.
He says I’m a bit flamboyant. So what I’d like some Alpha Phi Alpha men to step down the aisle (OK, that was a high school fantasy). And I’d like to audition my singers to make sure their voices match with my weddings musts, which include, “Ribbon in the Sky.” So what, I don’t want to march in on the traditional anthem. Instead, I’d like an announcer to ask the audience to rise (just as a program point) and I march in to excerpts of either Blackstreet’s “Joy” or Kenny Lattimore’s “Beautiful Girl.“
Montez calls this unnecessary.
But, yet, he said he wants to wear Js as in Michael Jordan sneakers at his wedding…
www.23jordan.com
Single grooves December 3, 2008
Posted by MsLady in Attraction, music, Single.Tags: life, Men, music, raining men, single women
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We’ve sampled a lot of music on this blog — from Danity Kane to Beyonce.
But is there a particular song, for you, that sums up being single?
A throwback jam comes to my mind for comedy’s sake:
Lessons from Brandy’s “marriage.” December 3, 2008
Posted by MsLady in love, Men, Rejection, Relationship, Single.Tags: brandy, life, marriage, mslady, music, Single, single mother
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R&B singer Brandy is back. She’s got a new album, Human, so she’s getting more publicity, including an interview with Vibe.com, “Girl, Interrupted.”
In the interview she talked openly about her “marriage.” An interview excerpt reads:”While Brandy called it a “spiritual union,” Smith would later reveal that their marriage and subsequent “divorce,” two years later, was never legal. It was a strategic publicity move pulled off to protect Brandy’s image. “
Something about those words, “protect her image” caused me to cringe.
Having children outside of marriage isn’t cool. But life happens. I know I went through the whole shame and embarrassment routine. But, at the end of the day, it is what it is. I hold my head up and do what I’ve got to do. It’s not easy, but I moved on.
But FAKING A MARRIAGE? Really. I know people deal with pressure in different ways, and I know she had a lot of young followers, but FAKING A MARRIAGE? Is that really the best alternative? For her it might have been. But, to me,the whole fiasco underscores how judgemental society can be. How people, especially public figures, aren’t allowed to “make mistakes,” which is a part of life. How being single, particularly a single parent, is such a horror that you have to disguise your status to avoid persecution.
Her Ex? wraps the issue in the interview by saying, “It’s really nothing to it. We had a child. The relationship didn’t work out. The bottom line is the friendship. The common denominator is our daughter…. You can’t be so mad at somebody who gave you that kind of a gift. So all the hoopla, the quote-unquote ‘marriage,’ whatever you want to call it…at the end of the day, we have a beautiful child, and I’m the happiest man on Earth. That’s really the logistics of it. No drama.”
What’s your take?
