I'm generally not a fan of the Musicology ablum (yes, ablum), but this joint is fire! I cannot stop listening to it on repeat. All the elements are there to make it (in my ears), one of P's BEST jams EVAR!


Sorry for screaming, but what do y'all think?

I love it too

Love that song.

love it!

Absolutely the best thing on that album. Love it!

I completely agree with you on that. I just LOVE everything about that track, especially the "If eye.. was the.. man in your life.. I'd make u..happy.. I'd treat you right *drums cracking in, bass coming in, gettin it OOOOON* Was it U that I saw outside the liquor store..."

Sooooo perfectly jammin'!

I love the Musicology sound, there's so much happening and you can smell the joy he had while recording every single instrument for the album and still it's so clean and perfect.

Give the whole album another spin, maybe you'll soon find a piece of the "If Eye Was The Man In Ur Life" brilliance in the others songs too!

Great song.

luv it eye haven't listen 2 musicology n awhile

2nd best song on the disc. Call My Name is superior, but only because it's a little more genuine, a little less tongue-in-cheek.

Another one of those damn songs I want to know what the impetus was.
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Great song!

Finally! Some Musicology love up in this joint :p

I love this song and The Marrying Kind together, actually.

yes, they go very well together. Continuing on a theme.

It's not bad. Together with The Marrying Kind, it sounds dated. Actually, it sounded dated when it first came out.

Dated to when?

Please, I emplore you to find me another song from whatever 'time period' this is supposed to sound like. Pleasepleasepleaseplease.

I swear, Anakin, Dark Sith Lord of the worst atrocity to ever happen to filmdom, you just want to rabble-rouse.

As if the entire Purple Rain or any other 80s album doesn't sound 'dated.'

But i guarantee you, no one would be able to hear Man in Ur Life OR The Marrying Kind on a cold listen and say, 'OH YEAH! That TOTALLY sounds very 2004! Yup!'
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bleutuna said:

It sounds like a 90's song.

garganta said:

co-sign 4 that.

PurpleKnight said:[quote]

bleutuna said:

Can you please, please, please tell me a song by an artist in the 90s that sounds like 'If Eye Was the Man in Ur Life' OR 'The Marrying Kind?'

PurpleKnight said:

Ugh, such a crime!

bleutuna said:[quote]

PurpleKnight said:

I never said it sounds like a ripoff of another song, did I?

You said it sounds 90s.

That infers it's drawing from a sound during an era that was prevalent.

So I'm asking you to please show me a song that sounds like these songs. Particularly from other artists, as that would be what is necessary to create a sound from which this could be compared to.

I know it doesn't sound *anything* like 90s rock & roll, so I look to 90s R&B/Hip-hop, and I'm sort of at a loss there too.

Does it sound like H-Town? No. Blackstreet? No. Montell Jordan? Nope. TLC? Boyz II Men? Aaliyah? Usher? No. So what exactly are you comparing these songs to in order to draw your conclusion? Or are you just trying to be provocative? That's my guess.

bleutuna said:

If I wanted to be provocative, I'd make a far bigger claim than just not liking a single song from Musicology.

I never said it sounds like a 90's song by another artist. I was more along the lines that it sounded like 90's Prince. Come to think of it though, I think I might have pinned it down to the wrong decade. I'm listening to it now, and the synths, as well as keyboard work reminiscient of The Beautiful Ones, evoke the 80's more. It also sounds like it has fake horns, which regardless of whether they are synth horns or not, just don't sound good in this song.
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I can see the 80s more than the 90s, though I don't think it does a good job of achieving that if that was his goal.

The biggest problem with this song in my opinion is it's clearly just him in the studio. If he were jammin' out with the band, I think this thing would be far more energetic and exciting.

bleutuna said:

I agree. That's probably why I don't like it, actually. Well said.

Just for the record, the 'horns' are a combination of real saxophone and synth, and it's John Blackwell on drums, so it's not a completely self-produced song.

I just love the way this song flows, and the interplay between the lead vocal and the backing vocals and little instrument flurries.

Musicology holds a very special place in my heart and if i was the man in your life is a great great song.

bleutuna said:[quote]

PurpleKnight said:

I actually think If Eye Was sounds like a Mint Condition song. They're from the 90's.

That's not necessarily a bad thing. Mint is a great band, and that's a really good song.

garganta said:

I agree... thats how I play them in my rotation.

These songs hadn't gotten the luv I thought they would... but I luv em anyway.

This is one of my all time favorite track.....BUT


Is it just me or do non-fans just don't get it?!?!
Everybody I have played this track too just don't like it, and find it weird?!!?

andykeen said:

Actually a friend who is a non-fan loves this song and actually the entire Musicology CD!!! Go figure

Oh and for the record I do too !