yay or nay


seriously



(like some would say... "you aint PUNK ...if you aint got 'this'")


must funksters have love?

It's impossible 2 b funky WITHOUT love in ur heart.

Nay because 2 truly be funky you got 2 play on "the one" and can't fake the funk 'cause love is on the one.....
[Edited 11/20/09 10:55am]

You don't need no love to be funky. It don't take no love to....

Shake, shake it baby
Shake, shake it
Shake, shake it mama
Shake it for me
Let me so you do it on the dance floor baby

The only love that's required is love for the funk. As a matter of fact, when you get too much love in you, that's when you fuck up and lose the funk altogether. Lionel Richie is a prime example. The Commodores were funky as hell. Lionel went on his own doing all those tired "love songs" and lost every ounce of funk he had in him.

Andy, that's not funk love, that's sappy, chile.

No, but seriously though, most funk songs have lyrics that have nothing to do with love. Lots of them have the subject matter of shaking it on the dance floor, or Fantastic Voyages, or Funkin' for Jamaica, Gripping Your Hips and Move, while Watching Ladies Go By, Letting It Whip, Dropping The Bomb, to Operators, Pop Along Kids, Raids, Bottoms Up, just anything in general put over some funky music. It don't take no love to do that except love for the funk. Then there are the songs like Give It To Me Baby, etc. which are about sex. You don't need no love to have sex. Funk is more a genre that is bass and rhythm driven more than lyrically driven. In funk, hell you can even have lyrics about Double Dutch Buses as long as the music is funky behind it.

vainandy said:

^ he's got a point

but are there any funk artists with catalogs with absolutely NO love songs?

Oops...no
[Edited 11/20/09 15:37pm]