Music Video Wish List (June is Black Music Month)

Nothing makes the mind wonder like music, in my opinion. I like visualizing things to music. Especially old favorites. Growing up I believed every song in the world should be made into a music video. And sometimes I have made up some for music I wish had one

Beauty by Dru Hill Seeing that I am a big fan of this group, I know I have mentioned part of this concept in a previous post. But at the beginning of this video, you see me, the video's lead model going about my little old life as usual with portions of my days with Dru Hill in my vicinity at the same time. The lead vocalist of the song & I even bump into one another, smile & apologize to one another, but we both keep going on our separate ways. Then there's a concert poster looking for a lady to dance with the group that flies into a book I'm reading. Then viewers see I am backstage getting my hair & makeup done. By the time for the vamp, I am brought out on the stage with the group to dance in a pretty & long flowing dress. And true readers & friends know which group member's embrace I end the video in aka the lead vocalist of Beauty.

Southern Gul by Erykah Badu ft Rahzel: 

Oak Cliff may be some folk's hood (Shout Out to THAT song). But years before folks bopped to it, Erykah Badu & her boy, Rahzel made a true ode to my home area.

🎶Southern Gul and I'll rock your world

Fly as a bumble bee (buzz)

Can't nobody f-ck with me

I'm a Southern Gul

From way down South

Got a dirty way

'Cause I got a dirty mouth, dirty South

(Southern Gul)🎶

Oh yes, I remember when South Dallas was the only place in Dallas where you could get two pieces of chicken & jalapeno pepper (Probably from my favorite, Henderson's when it was on Oakland, now called Malcolm X). And if your finger waves didn't last all night (actually a week) long, you were deemed unworthy to wear finger waves. And instead of seeing the Oak Cliff fave, Rudy's Chicken, you see Black Jack Pizza, Little World, the Forrest Theatre, and even a flash or two of the State Fairgrounds among other sites of this historical spot of the city in a video for this short diddy. Maybe I could've waved at the cameras from my porch. LoL

🎶Big D Little a Double l as🎶

Love's Train by Con Funk Train: Let's enter into the nosy, messy & gossiping portions of my mind. Long ago in a far away time when celebrity beef wasn't handled on social media but in the music that the artist put out, there was a tune with a great cadence based on a true story. Don't believe me go read THIS, THIS, THIS or watch THIS.  Yes, all that Drama was within the group, Con Funk Shun. (I often think about Ms. Love's Train. Did she ever realize that there was a song made about her player ways? I would've gotten my 4% (1/3 of 1 song of a 9 track record) of those album sales. They couldn't tell my business and get away with it. Yes, I am silly.) And that wasn't even the reason why they broke up. It was money. LoL But they were smart to capitalize on this issue. And in 1982, a video would have been nice. They could have just reenacted how the song was made. Sad Michael Cooper sits down after going to Ms. Love's Train and finding out she dating his bandmate, Felton Pilate & him. Ms. Love's Train & he talking over the intercom with the bandmate on the couch can be in the backdrop. He picks up some sheet music of Felton's and starts writing. Cooper presents his song to the group. The other members realize what the song is referencing & get uncomfortable. The camera should pan to the bass being slapped during the "heartstrings can be broken" part. Felton gets upset & wants to pull his music and Danny Thomas on keys tells him how foolish he is being. And the fellas shake hands and we see in the backdrop Ms. Love Train listening to it on the radio.

Honorable Mention: Love by God's Property After the popularity of the faster jam, Stomp, I wish Kirk Franklin & the group slowed things down and gave the world a musical image of "what it means to..."

Do I have too much time on my hand? Mayhaps you are correct. But what's the alternative? Use my brain power to make up rumors about celebrities & put them on YouTube? Call people and become "Scam Likely". So leave me alone. If one of these artists sees this post and decided to revisit their works and use & pay me for my idea, I bet my time won't be thought of as a waste. Hmmph! LMBO Oh well! Drop down in the comments and let me know what song(s) should have had music videos. Show me where your imagination takes you.

As Always Talking to You in Adult Terms!