Temptation
Is a part of life
It doesn't matter if it's wrong or riight
It makes ya do
What ya love

Oh hell yeah! That was back in my old whorin' days. Great jam.

Thanks for this. I like the Night Tracks close-off @ the end.

Those were the days! I remember there was another song out at the same time that sounded the same ( http://www.youtube.com/wa...pv4XJoOE8Q ), had the same drum beat.
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shesoffthewall said:

Yo!!! That is HOT! It's got a different breakbeat in there (bmore?? lol!) but yeah same early 90s freestyle drum kit!!! I wonder if this was on Cutting Records too.

XTENDAMIX!!! YES!!

She looks like a drag queen.

this song!

Im very surpised that no NEW pop female has ever covered it, and sexed up the video.

I never liked this song.

lastdecember said:

Even though I think it was a top ten hit, those girls these days don't really know the classics. If they ever do covers, it's always major pop hits. Someone like Christina might not even be all the influenced by good dance pop and Britney probalby do not much about Madonna beyond the signature hits.

The guys aren't much better. Even though someone like Justin is influenced by Michael Jackson and Prince, I think it's for all the wrong reasons. He can technicanlly make great pop songs, but there is no real heart and soul there.

VinnyM27 said:

Especially with dance/freestyle music. I think that era of music is lost to this generation and its pretty sad it is.

lastdecember said:

was raised in the 90s, so this type of muzik is rite up my alley!

Cinnie said:

Yup it was on Cutting.

IAintTheOne said:

I mean the video shesoffthewall posted, "Together Forever" by Lisette Melendez?

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vainandy said:

Good song

lastdecember said:

I think sadly, you're right. Uneducated fools!

Sort of in that vein, I know P. Diddy's last album was very dance heavy (more of a dance album than a hip hop album). Something like "Last Night" was blatant Prince (if it didn't take a sample from "Erotic City" it came damn close because I even remember a local radio station mashing up the two). Anyone know if he represented a little freestyle on there? Relating back to Corina, as people probably know, her last semi hit was in 1997 with a cover of "Summertime, Summertime". I really dug it and it was on the 2nd "So So Def Bass All Stars" CD. Sort of the last time good dance music was in the same company as hip-hop.

Cinnie said:

Lisette was signed to Fever/Columbia. I have that 12" as well as the followup singles "A Day In My Life (Without You)" and "Never Say Never". This was in the later days of freestyle when it was trying to be revived as "new school".

As for this Corina song, it's okay. I much preferred her earlier single "Give Me Back My Heart".

sextonseven said:

Didn't even know she had another single.

Cinnie said:

She's had a few. The first single I remember hearing was "Out Of Control":



Give Me Back My Heart:

sextonseven said:

I don't remember that. That sounds like Freestyle.

lilgish said:

I listened to a lot of freestyle in the late 80s.

lilgish said:

Yeah this whole thread is rooted in Freestyle..

sextonseven said:

Nice one, by the way.

Cinnie said:

It's a little more frenetic-sounding than "Temptation" which is what I like.

Cinnie said:

I always wondered about this...

Why Freestyle is actually called freestyle is subject to speculation.

Some feel the term freestyle may refer to the difference between the mixing techniques used by DJs spinning this form of music (at least in its pre-house incarnations) and those who were spinning disco, the only other widely played dance music that incorporated sung vocals. Disco, with its relatively predictable beat structure, could be mixed with smooth, slow, and consistent techniques, but freestyle's syncopated beat structures demanded that DJs get creative, incorporating aspects of both disco and hip-hop techniques; they often had to (or had more freedom to) mix more quickly and more responsively to the individual pieces of music.

Others believe it refers to the vocal technique: singing melodic pop vocals over the kind of beats that were previously used only with rap and semi-chanted electro-funk vocal styles was a form of freestyling —getting creative by mixing up the styles— somewhat akin to the use of the term in reference to competitive freestyle rap.

Another explanation is that the dancing associated with this music allows for a great degree of freedom of expression than the other music that was prevalent at the time. Each individual dancer is free to create his or her own style.

In Miami, the freestyle name evolved after confusion between Tony Butler's track Freestyle Express by Freestyle and Debbie Deb's When I Hear Music, a slightly older but more popular track that was produced by Butler. The sound became synonymous with Butler's production, and the name of the group he was in, Freestyle, became the genre's name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...tyle_music

lilgish said:

Back in the day, we used to call this music latin hip-hop.



I heard many artists didn't like that term though.

Spin mag used to look so CRUCIAL!

Cinnie said:

I still have that issue posted above.

God how I loved this song! That 90s production is so horrifying in so many songs but it's what makes this song so great! There's something New Wave about the song