Stevie Wonder Releases New Song for Obama, "Keep Moving Forward"

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Reply #30 posted 10/28/12 11:54am

SoulAlive	yeah,Stevie has always been heavily involved in politics.He even wrote a campaign song for Al Gore in 2000,but I never heard it.
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Reply #31 posted 10/28/12 7:43pm

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Big thumbs down! Stevie you are way to much of a class act to get involved in politics!

Where have u been? Stevie LOVES politics. He worked hard for Obama's first campaign and is doing the same now. He wrote "All About The Love" for the last one.

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Reply #32 posted 10/28/12 7:46pm

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Reply #33 posted 10/28/12 8:25pm

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^^The last time I've seen Stevie without a mustache was on that Pops We Love You album cover from the late 1970's.

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Reply #34 posted 10/29/12 1:38am

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Sounds like Stevie dusted off the Casio for this one. Yikes.

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Reply #35 posted 10/29/12 8:08am

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^^The last time I've seen Stevie without a mustache was on that Pops We Love You album cover from the late 1970's.

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I thought about that, but couldn't figure out when was the last time I've seen him without a mustache.

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Reply #36 posted 10/29/12 9:01am

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Sounds like an outtake from Jungle Fever I applaud his effort and purpose though. Totally agree with the message.

... please don't say that about Jungle Fever! lol I love that album.

I love Stevie with everything I got, he's a musician's musician and a genius. No doubt. I even really really like 'All About the Love Again', but this...

This!?

I don't think I'll ever play that again, even to see if it's a grower.

And by the way, RnR Affair' >>>>>>>>>> 'Keep Moving Forward' !!!!!!!! 10 times over.

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Reply #37 posted 10/29/12 10:31am

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Decent-enough groove, and it's true that he seems into it, which is a plus when it's a guy like Stevie who could bang a cardboard box and make it engaging; but the lyrics make it unbearable. He can be a bit of an awkward lyricist at the best of times, but clunkers like "jobs for all that succeed in their task / and healthcare.....for the middle class" are hard to take from the man who slammed Richard Nixon with the acidic brilliance of You Haven't Done Nothin'. (Maybe he needs four long years of Romney to get his political mojo back! lol ) Not to mention that the rosy-eyed partisanship is a bit hard to swallow when much of Obama's electoral base is really suffering.

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Reply #38 posted 10/29/12 11:25am

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Musicslave said:

Sounds like an outtake from Jungle Fever I applaud his effort and purpose though. Totally agree with the message.

... please don't say that about Jungle Fever! I love that album.

I love Stevie with everything I got, he's a musician's musician and a genius. No doubt. I even really really like 'All About the Love Again', but this...

This!?

I don't think I'll ever play that again, even to see if it's a grower.

And by the way, RnR Affair' >>>>>>>>>> 'Keep Moving Forward' !!!!!!!! 10 times over.

Da hell you thankin' ??

lol I hear ya. I loved it too. I guess what I was getting at was that it sounds similiar to Stevie's output from that era. It sounds dated. I see how you could have taken it that way.

Lyrically it sounds like David Axelrod or David Plouffe wrote it lol lol It has everything in it except, "I'm Barack Obama, and I approved this message." tagged at the end of it.

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Reply #39 posted 10/29/12 12:04pm

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The song actually could have been decent, but it sounds like a demo with unfinished lyrics.

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Reply #40 posted 10/30/12 10:28am

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LOVE Stevie's work overall, but I couldn't finish listening to this one, got as far as 2 minutes.

Whoever says this is still better than RnR Affair cannot be serious.

There are 2 major things wrong with Moving Forward -
- a U.S. political/patriotic song, especially one to help a President whom some hate because they consider him a foreigner and/or a Muslim, should not sound in any way foreign, Arabic, or "eastern"; it should sound as "American" as possible. Think Springsteen. But typical Stevie of the 70s or his 80s hits sound "American" too.
Actually, what would be perfect is a mild inoffensive tune with a country & old time rock vibe to it... Something like RnR Affair!
- There are campaign slogans, and there is art; the two are not the same. Stevie lost the artistry and himself as an artist to accommodate the literal message. Where's your poetic license, Stevie? If you cannot set good music to the slogans, then scrap the slogans, come up with real lyrics that serve the music!

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Reply #41 posted 10/30/12 3:45pm

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Japha11 said:

... please don't say that about Jungle Fever! I love that album.

I love Stevie with everything I got, he's a musician's musician and a genius. No doubt. I even really really like 'All About the Love Again', but this...

This!?

I don't think I'll ever play that again, even to see if it's a grower.

And by the way, RnR Affair' >>>>>>>>>> 'Keep Moving Forward' !!!!!!!! 10 times over.

Da hell you thankin' ??

I hear ya. I loved it too. I guess what I was getting at was that it sounds similiar to Stevie's output from that era. It sounds dated. I see how you could have taken it that way.

Lyrically it sounds like David Axelrod or David Plouffe wrote it It has everything in it except, "I'm Barack Obama, and I approved this message." tagged at the end of it.

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