November has Come or I don't want to get sued.

So it is a new month so that of course means new music.

In this case, it actually is new music. I rarely go with the norm and always try to go outside of the box when it comes to music players but this month I am actually feeling some commercial 'popular' songs.

First off the bat is 'Forever'. Now I am going to go on the record, I do not get this whole 'Drake is the leader of the new school rap movement'. I think dude is aight but he hasn't blown my mind like say Lupe Fiasco. I can not hate on this song through. Drake delivers a good verse, Kanye is solid and has tons of quotables (despite what the haters say) and Wanye's verse is meh to me but that's probably because I am so sick and tired of him overstaturating the market. However the clear winner of this battle royale is Em. Em comes in and kills it, resurects it and kills it all over again. Yeah his verse was that sick. Just listen to it.

2nd is 'Doesn't Mean Anything' by Alicia Keys. To my surprise I have never featured Alicia in my music players even through she has consistantly been one of my favorite artists. This song is her latest and after a couple listens I really dig it. In a funny 'everything is connected' moment, the video for this song (specifically the last couple minutes) really doesn't do much for the song which of course is strange because I mentioned in previous blogs how much videos help me enjoy a song (Forever being a recent example, I really didn't sit up and notice the song till the video, nice work Hype Williams).

However I can't go all new skool so I had to put in one of my favorite songs of all time. 'Fastlove' by George Michael. I grew to love George due to my older brothers. Not a Christmas goes by without my oldest brother Rob playing 'Last Christmas' and my other brother Michael swears by 'Father Figure' and 'Jesus to a Child' as the best songs of all time. For me, Fastlove has always been one of my favorite songs and one of the reasons why I love it is because of the multi-chorus at the end.
Now funny enough, only recently I realized the bit I love with the female chorus is actually a sample of a song called 'Forget Me Nots' by Patrice Rushen. It is the same song Will Smith sampled to make 'Men in Black'. I didn't realize this however till I came to the States and heard 'Forget Me Nots' on my local r'n'b station Mojo and then heard 'Fastlove' again after so long.

So that's my choice for this month. I actually wanted to celebrate Rain's impending US takeover (Ninja Assassin, Thanksgiving!!) with a Rain song but I have used so many Rain songs so I decided to give it a slight break.

Oh and the title, hah. The first part of the title is inspired by Gorillaz's song of the same name. The other part of not being sued is actually a reference to me wanting to use a Prince song (probably 'When Doves Cry') but then I realized Prince is EXTRA sensitive about his music online so lol better safe then sorry. I will give him his props tho. Prince... 'When Doves Cry' is the Shit man! Go on with your crazy self.

pP