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This is the third post from the Black N Love Series, a curation of topics around the Black Community and Love during the month of February.
Love is polarizing; everyone wants to define the term of art when it has been defined and benchmarked. Love is complicated yet simple, straightforward and at the same time puzzling, explicit and expressly hidden. Unquestionably, love is multidimensional. I have learned to embrace this. I love music because we see the multidimensionality of love: audibly and succinctly, albeit imperfectly, music captures the dynamic sentiment and action of love. When I cannot verbalize or even pen the words, song lyrics motivate, carry, induce, force, teach, and direct me. I, we, relate to music in a way we relate to nothing else; it is in our Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA): never neutral, never entirely basic or acidic.
No two living persons have stirred and roused me more than the multidimensional sounds of Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Toni Braxton. For no other two can I attribute the descriptors, "rich," "enveloping," "buttery rifts," "raw in throws," and "altogether masterfully and harmoniously soulful" in the same sentence. Gifted. Their body of work, and arrangements within it, demonstrate they can record dimensions of love for themselves, solo and together, and for others- to sing and make their own. "Beautiful" is the best acoustic characterization of their progressive work.
Self-coined a "musical marriage," the duo of Babyface and Toni Braxton shares music that burrows, evokes, and unveils the heart.
Here are seven (7) songs from the musical couple Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Toni Braxton to sing your way through February and beyond, in every key and key change of life you find yourself.
"Exceptional" by Babyface (© 2015 Def Jam Recordings)
"We've Got Love" by Babyface (© 2015 Def Jam Recordings)
"How Many Ways" by Toni Braxton (℗ 1992 LaFace Records LLC)
"I Love Me Some Him" by Toni Braxton (℗ 1996 LaFace Records LLC)
"I'd Rather Be Broke" by Toni Braxton & Babyface ©2014 Motown Records)
"Give U My Heart" by Babyface featuring Toni Braxton (© LaFace Records LLC)
"Reunited" by Toni Braxton & Babyface (©2014 Motown Records)
"I Wanna Be Your Baby" Mix with Toni Braxton & Babyface (℗ 2013 Reservoir Media Management and Sony ATV Publishing)
These are just a few of the songs from my soundtrack. Whose songs fill yours? Join the #QuedUpConversations.
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