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I only remember the "Under The Cherry Moon" song review which was posted her during the "black & purple" days. And agree, it fueled my love for the song even more.
I'll not lie, the woman has her way with words. I remember getting dragged to one of my concerts(my older sis is a big fan) she stopped me on my tracks when she performed a poem about a sexually active young girl. I think this is where her powers lay; poetry. | |
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Yeah, I had a sneaking suspicion Jill was full of. I remember her Essence interview from a few years back-she didn't come off too well. "Lack of home training crosses all boundaries." | |
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So she basically ignored those who loved her but did a song dissing Okayplayer members? Mmkay... I got tired of hearing that song by the way. I dug it until I heard it for the 1000th time while being driven home from college. | |
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 will ALWAYS think of  like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. |
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Jill Scott never came across as full of herself to me. She seems really sweet. | |
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Jill Scott is a very straight foward person. That just tells the truth. People like that always get criticize for not candy coating everything. I remember a poem she read at The White House in front of The Obama's. It was so sexual. I'm sure some cringed. But she didn't care. She read it with pride will ALWAYS think of like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. |
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. Love peeps like that..
+1. I always felt that Jilly was a poet first, a singer second. That's what struck me most about her first album especially: she had clearly been writing poetry for some time in advance of releasing that. Love the voice, style, look & tude..but I think it's the poetic snaps when she really gets to the real. Funk Is It's Own Reward | |
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One of your better posts, I agree. | |
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Happy bday Jill. I like Jill's first 3 studio albums. Beautifully Human is my favorite out of those 3. Sadly her lastest release does nothing for me especially that Shame single she has with Eve. Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint | |
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My parents love the video to that one. | |
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I think that's the one with that girl group they put in the video (the name escapes me)
Jill is very full of herself. "Climb in my fur." | |
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"'Last Night A Record Changed My Life': Jill's princely pageant - How mid - '80s Prince did it for Jill Scott."
Mojo Magazine [United Kingdom] (March 2002), page 30, by Lois Wilson
‘It’s the clearest definition of creative freedom I have ever heard. I was 16 and went to see the film Under The Cherry Moon and fell in love. The soundtrack went from rock to computerized blues to jazz to pop and classical. I grew up listening to jazz and blues, to Ella Fitzgerald and Hendrix and, sure, I loved Bach and Mozart. But prince came along and amalgamated them all. The writing was so descriptive and colourful. I used to stay up and listen to the album over and over again on headphones. When everyone else was outside playing and running on a Saturday afternoon, I’d be locked in my bedroom or sat on my porch listening to the LP, and I’d be immediately transported away from all the problems in my neighbourhood to the French Riviera, where the film was set. Prince uses so many different vocal tones and that was a real beginning for me. His voice would change to accommodate the story, the lyrics – something I choose to do with my music. Any poet, singer, writer wants to live in the moment of each and every song and this is the method by which to do it. He switches Anotherloverholenyohead to a song like Do U Lie (sings), ‘When I lie awake at night in my boudoir’ and automatically the sun comes out, the rays shine through the window, the room becomes light. The track Christopher Tracey’s Parade taught me a new sense of rhythm. Using a computer he created a different heart rhythm. You don’t listen to that song, you fall inside it and become it. He added car sounds – I mean, who did that in those days? And he sings like he never planned a thing, like they play the music and he’s not sure how it’s going to go he just opens his mouth and starts to sing. It doesn’t feel rehearsed but fresh, full of life. It’s a classic album and lyrically an inspiration. He’s capable of being a very personal writer but he’s also very skilled. When you listen to the music the picture is always clear, the imagination is provoked – that’s the kind of writer I want to be. Like Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, he makes forever music. The instrumentation is wonderful. He had a computer create the sound but didn’t falsify it by pretending it’s another instrument. He chose to play a computer as itself! His guitar – how he would go from being rock and out there and strong and immediately change the sound to sensitive and loving and soft – that is brilliance. I don’t know if the music was a genuine reflection of a part of his life or a fictional creation, but quite honestly I don’t care because I feel it regardless. I feel blessed just listening to this record.’
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will ALWAYS think of like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that wasn't of this earth, would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. |
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Didn't know she had a video for that. I may check it out to see who the girl group is and that eye candy Eve. Don't laugh at my funk
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Yeah I know Jill and Eve did a video and I guess this is the only song they did together so it had to be that one. | |
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