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Inappropriate Wedding Songs? Probably

In Film, Popular Music, Songs On Saturday, Television on April 30, 2011 at 8:04 AM

Hellooooo… Everybully!

And WELCOME! to Songs on Saturday!

This week’s Songs On Saturday was inspired by yesterday’s Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. The theme is love in song, specifically two songs. One about hoping and waiting to find it, the other about snatching a bit of it fur just one night, Someone To Watch Over Me (1929) and Help Me Make It Through The Night (1971).

A popular tune that might immediately come to the minds of People at their prime during the seventies is Al Green‘s Let’s Stay Together (1972):

Let’s… let’s stay together
Loving you whether… whether
Times are good or bad, happy or sad

Writing yesterday’s post brought a few feel good nostalgia tunes to mind fur Her and reinforced Her love fur songwriting and songwriters. She just enjoys a great lyric. Great story telling that invokes images and stirs the imagination and the emotions are what keep me listening. To paraphrase Michael Corleone in the The Godfather III “they pull me back in” every time, even after several decades!

Love is a theme that never fails as fodder fur the songwriter. So many People are unlucky at it, or can’t find it, or can’t hold on to it or otherwise preoccupied with it. Loving and being loved are universal human experiences.

There’s a saying old, says that love is blind
Still we’re often told, “seek and ye shall find”
So I’m going to seek a certain lad I’ve had in mind

Looking everywhere, haven’t found him yet
He’s the big affair I cannot forget
Only man I ever think of with regret

I’d like to add his initial to my monogram
Tell me, where is the shepherd for this lost lamb?

There’s a somebody I’m longin’ to see
I hope that he, turns out to be
Someone who’ll watch over me

free music Someone to Watch Over Me is a song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by his brother, Ira Gershwin for the musical Oh, Kay! in 1926. So many modern artists have performed and recorded this tune from Frank Sinatra to Amy Winehouse. Her personal favorite cover is by the great swing and jazz artist, “The First Lady of Song,” Ella Fitzgerald.

Ella Fitzgerald

Some of you are looking at this image now and remembering Ms Fitzgerald from those famous Memorex commercials where a tape recording of her voice is so sharp, so crystal clear, it shatters glass.

There will never be another Ella Fitzgerald. Her voice, her range, her jazz scat, the pure, natural, sweetness of her lilting soprano coupled with impeccable breath control, the clarity of her enunciation and pitch pawfect phrasing make listening to her now seem like the difference between calf’s liver and foie gras. Both are liver. Both taste great. (or so I’m told). But calf’s liver is not foie gras.

Over three decades of Her growing up, She caught many of Ms Fitzgerald’s performances due to her frequent television appearances on shows like The Merv Griffin Show, The Dick Cavett Show, The Smothers Brothers and The Dinah Shore Show. Ella Fitzgerald was “must see TV” back in the day.

Ella Fitzgerald was only 22 years old when George Gershwin died, but his brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin, lived long enough to not only hear Ella record this song, but also to assist with the production of the album from which it came. With arrangements and orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle, the album Ella Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook was honored by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the body that runs the Grammy Awards in 1959.

Ella Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook is widely considered to be one of the greatest musical compilations in recorded history! After the album’s completion, Ira Gershwin remarked, “I had never known how good our songs were until I heard Ella sing them.”

Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson were the country songwriting hit makers in the seventies. He penned such classic American songs as For “The Good Times,” “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night” and is currently a member of the Songwriter Hall of Fame and the Country Music Hall of Fame.

He never got much attention fur his own recordings, but he was honored by the Grammy’s fur his songwriting and his songs became enormous hits fur others, namely Sammie Smith, whose recording of Help Me Make It Through the Night shot to #1 on the pop country charts in 1971.

I don’t care what’s right or wrong, I won’t try to understand.
Let the devil take tomorrow Lord tonight I need a friend.

Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow’s out of sight
And it’s sad to be alone. Help me make it through the night.

free music Sammie Smith won the Grammy fur Best Female Country Vocal Performance for “Help Me Make It Through the Night” in 1972.

Probably good we weren’t the official Royal wedding song choosers. Right? BOL!

ThatOne here fur Songs On Saturday. See you next week. Until then…

Goodwill Energies I project
Upon each and every one of you
Each and every day!


“And there came to be evening and there came to be morning…”


That’s life today!


Happy Endings Fairy Tales Santa Claus and Harvey

In Intellectual compatibility, Love, Marriage, Popular Culture on April 29, 2011 at 1:43 PM

The deed at last is finally done. They’ve officially become the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Prince William and the former Catherine Elizabeth Middleton were married today in a lavish ceremony at storied Westminster Abbey.

The bride emerged gingerly from the Royal Bentley wearing a modest dress almost unmarred by wrinkles, a modest diamond tiara borrowed from Her Majesty The Queen, and an even more modest attendant entourage comprised solely of her kid sister, Philippa. The entire affair was the very definition of dignified, modest, reverential restraint.

I got the sense, this wedding was, fur this couple, really all about getting married. After all, the couple has been together almost as long as Prince William’s parents managed to stay married.

William and Kate survived a public breakup during their long courtship and have come through that stronger and more committed than ever. They’re mature adults, both nearly 30. They’re not unevenly yoked.

They appear intellectually compatible, which is way more valuable, desirable, even more important than sex! After all, they may not have sex every day, but they will have to talk and listen to one another every day! Way more important.

Talking. Listening. Intellectual compatibility is enjoying and finding joy in the thinking patterns, rhythms, conversation and companionship of another.

It’s like grrreat sex! Infinitely more difficult to get over when you lose it and even more difficult to live without once you’ve experienced it. Intellectual compatibility. It’s that good. Ask Hillary Clinton!

Clearly, William and Kate are entering into this arrangement willingly, with eyes wide open and with a steely determination to make a success of it.

Both their immediate families enjoy strong, healthy marriages. William will be King. His bride will be Queen. All without any of the messy dramas that played out in the tabloids fur past generations of the Royal family.

Congratulations all you winners!

She is such a fan’a marriage. It’s a shame She never really got to have it. She’d have been a grrreat wife because She gets it. When you think about it, marriage is just like responsible pet ownership.

*pawses fur the deafening din of hysterical gales of laughter to subside*

It’s true! How many People get a dog because they hope he will “complete” them? Or because they are indulging a mistaken belief the dog will “make them happy?” No. People, the majority emotionally balanced, psychologically healthy, thinking People, at least, get dogs because they get it. They get there truly is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving.

In marriage, when both parties place the needs and desires of the other above their own, they realize they get back 1000 fold what they give and that without the requisite expectation of quid quo pro. They genuinely do not expect a “great reward.” Unlike the wife of Lot, they’re not looking over their shoulders fur anything.

Loving their partner– responding to their joys, sharing the same experiences, the same goals, the same house, the same bed; being in a committed relationship with another Person, not experiencing life alone in a vacuum– that’s the superlative joy of being married. It is, in a phrase, being in a position of having ♫someone to watch over…

Don’t you just love caring fur your dog? Fussing over what he eats? Taking note of even the most subtle change in his temperament or demeanor? Feeling concern when he is ill and elation when he is recovered? Stumbling upon something in your favorite pet shop that you just know your pet is gonna lub?

That almost unbearably overwhelming sensation of the heart that unexpectedly comes over you when you observe your pet asleep, tummies are full, the house is warm, still and quiet, Stephen Colbert just made you laugh uproariously and out loud, it’s just you and your dog, and at that moment, everything– actually and quite literally– everything is all right with the world.

That’s marriage.

It’s not about being in love “whatever ‘in love’ means.” Love is like a flame. It requires the occasional infusion of fuel. Think about it– Do you keep your physical fireplace going every day? Why do People expect to “feel” passionately in love everyday? Marriage is more than a feeling.

Marriage is the safe haven, the well stocked shelter from all the noise and buffeting storms coming at it from the outside. Marriage is about deciding to surmount the dribbling mundane events of life, together every day.

“Love does not keep account of the injury.”

Marriage is about putting up with one another. It’s about liking your partner even when they are their most unlikable, remembering they’re not always that way. Marriage is always looking forward to tomorrow with hope; expecting it will be better simply because when tomorrow does come, (and tomorrow always comes), it arrives with both of you still standing there.

♫♫Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow’s out of sight
And it’s sad to be alone. Help me make it through the night.

All of this nonsense about fairy tales and happy endings. They’re all about as credible as Santa Claus and Harvey the giant rabbit. It’s so TEA party to stubbornly and passionately continue entrenched in these ri-lick-cules beliefs and standards about happiness. You’re not “in love” with your partner every day. What you are every day is married.

Good luck William and Kate!

So much better to look to self. After all, your Self– Your thoughts, your behaviors, your expectations, YOU are the only thing you can ever really exercise complete responsibility over.

You and your dog.

So, when it’s your turn to get married, Decide. Are you in it to give of yourself whole souled or are you in it to fulfill your own selfish desires? Fur what you can get?

C’mon. Decide. It’s your decision.

Goodwill Energies I direct
Toward each and every one of you
Each and every day!
❝And there came to be evening and there came to be morning…❞
There’s a saying old, says that love is blind
Still we’re often told, “seek and ye shall find”
So I’m going to seek a certain lad I’ve had in mind Looking everywhere, haven’t found him yet
He’s the big affair I cannot forget
Only man I ever think of with regret I’d like to add his initial to my monogram
Tell me, where is the shepherd for this lost lamb?There’s a somebody I’m longin’ to see
I hope that he, turns out to be
Someone who’ll watch over meI’m a little lamb who’s lost in the wood
I know I could, always be good
To one who’ll watch over me

That’s life, today!

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In Animals and Pets, Choosing the right food fur your dog, Music, Television, Theater on April 28, 2011 at 6:01 PM

Pets and their food choice are as individual as People and their diets. There is no such thing as ‘one size fits all.’ You need to ‘know’ your pet, observe them daily, then make decisions about their health care and feeding based on your experiences with your individual pet’s individual needs and your individual life circumstances.

The operative word here is INDIVIDUAL!

Just because one pet owner experiences success or not success with a particular brand or feeding regimen such as a raw food diet or some other alternative feeding scheme, doesn’t mean your results will be similar or even appropriate fur you or your dog.

Pouring over brand descriptions and labels or giving inordinate attention to the popular fad de jour will only frustrate you, your dog, or worse, actually cause a food allergy!

Observe your dog. Then ask yourself what is it you are needing to accomplish nutritionally, dietetically and physiologically fur your dog?

Is your dog overweight? Underweight? Does your dog smell? Did you know the wrong dog food can cause your dog to exude an unpleasant od0r (like rotting corpse or mediciny, wet dog), cause halitosis (foul mouth odor) and yeasty smelling ears?

Has your vet determined your dog may have a food allergy? The wrong dog food can cause itchy skin, adversely affect the  sheen, texture and density of your dog’s coat and cause profuse shedding even doggie alopecia or to a lesser degree, benign hair loss. If the food is irritating your dog’s intestines or he has developed a skin allergy because of it, your dog will smell bad!

“Your son, Rip is on line ‘Toot.'”

Is your dog excessively flatulent? Think about it. Do you fart every day, five, ten and twenty times a day? Foul smelling, lingering, oily flatulence is a symptom, not comic relief!  Bloat is a serious medical issue fur dogs as well as a very painful way to die!

"It's clobberin' time!"

Okay, now let’s talk sh*** Hey! Shut your mouth! BOL! Is your dog’s poop rocky looking, hard, and comes out in clearly delineated sections like The Fantastic Four‘s The Thing?

Your dog’s poop should be brown and formed with some evidence of lubricating mucous so it’s a skosh moist, even glistening, but not loose like diarrhea.

You should be able to pick it up and feel warmth and weight. It should not dribble out the anus in small, intermittent little loose droplets. Gastrointestinal changes or anomalies are often extinguished or at least mitigated successfully by diet.

Are you needing to manage your dogs weight? Is there a medical or physiological imperative for your dog’s food choice, such as disease, muscle and bone  health and maintenance, heart health, etc? In that case, you should be working closely with a qualified vet you are comfortable with, confident in and that you trust.

Now that you have at least determined a real, pragmatic reason fur switching your dog’s food, you need next to decide what’s best fur you and your pet and then decide on a feeding plan based on what you have determined is in the best health interests of your pet, not because that’s what the Jones’ feed their pet.

You have to be able to afford it. You have to be able to find it in convenient locations. And most importantly, your dog has to eat it! What’s the use expending energy and hours and days and weeks, even years researching the Pawfect food with the Pawfect ingredients if your dog doesn’t like it and won’t eat it? Or none of your neighborhood stores carry it?

I eat Royal Canin. She doesn’t like me to be flatulent. I don’t have any food allergies, (I do not have a cast iron stomach so I can’t eat a steady, constantly varying diet of People food) or dietary anomalies so both our imperatives are being met with Royal Canin. Plus I like it and I will happily eat it. Alpo or Costco’s Kirkland brand may work just fine fur your dogs health, taste buds and your pocketbook, physiological or medical problems notwithstanding.

What you feed your pet is not rocket science. It doesn’t show the world how smart you are. Conversely, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad, neglectful, unloving, indifferent pet owner if your dog dines on Purina and mine eats Royal Canin, nor does what your dog eats qualify as a status symbol or a means to make a showy display of your material good fortune.

What you feed your pet should be based solely on whether your pet likes it and whether it works to ensure and maintain his or her individual health and physiological well being. That’s your responsibility and it’s a responsibility you need to take seriously!
The first resource She always goes to when She has any questions about anything is The Internet. These days with so much information so readily and easily available just by typing the word or phrase in the Goggle window, there is absolutely no reason People should find it difficult to get answers to their own questions and/or concerns.

Often She is able to find information that is invaluable to my care and keeping. She is not wealthy or rich or even comfortably well off materially, so running to the vet every time I have a problem is not always the most expedient option fur us.

So She does Her homework first. Yes, it’s an investment of time, but it pays dividends when we do have to visit our vet. She arrives prepared with questions to ask and observations She can provide which helps our vet make the right diagnosis the first time.

The more information you can provide your pet health care provider, the less frustrating the vet visit will be. Being prepared also cuts down on redundant office visits and the length of time your dog may suffer or be uncomfortable in between these visits.

If you are concerned right now about Bella’s nutrition or Ethel Mae and Doc and Viv are farting a skosh too much or Guinness is suddenly not so eagerly scarfing down his kibble the way he used to, then here are four (4) sites She’s found that may be helpful to you. A couple are a bit dense, but they deliver the goods. Like to see them? Here they go:

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to decide on a  meal product that a. insures your dog’s best chance fur quality of life and length of days, b. you can afford it and c. your dog will eat it. It’s your responsibility as a responsible pet owner. That’s all! And Bon a petite!

Good luck Jim.

Goodwill Energies I direct
Toward each and every one of you
Each and every day!
❝And there came to be evening and there came to be morning…❞

That’s life, today!

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Ka-Choing… Yoing Oing Oing Oing!

In Children's Literacy, Civility, English bulldogs, Humor, K-12 Education, Manners, Sarcasm, Self-control on April 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM

#bullDogNATION’s Sunday BULLY Pulpit

♫♫(woof!) What you want?
(woof!) Maybe I got it
(woof!) What you need?
(woof!) You know I got it!
(woof!) All I’m askin’
(woof!) Is for a little RESTRAINT out in public
(just a little bit) Courtesy (just a little bit)
Out in public
(just a little bit)
People
(just a little bit)
Woof!

Hello! And to #bullDogNATION’s Sunday BULLY Pulpit where each week we gather together fur the Gospel and the Gossip according to Me! Or you. Come on in. You’re welcome to post your own opinion, pictures or comments on #bullDogNATION’s Sunday BULLY Pulpit. This week:

“I hear and I forgetI see and I remember. I do and I understand …”–Ancient Chinese Proverb


Ever been out and about just minding your own bully bidness when someone, (usually an adult) approaches and says “Awww… You’re so cute! Are you—  Friendly?

Ka-Choing Yoing Oing!

CAUTION: Menace to society. Big time.

Oh nooo… Why.., just look at me! I’m a regular flesh eatin’ teenaged werewolf here, see..?

I'm a Lover. Not a biter.

Could’a been me who ripped the face off that woman in Connecticut! If I’d have been there. Magically morphed into a frustrated chimpanzee. Who snapped.

Clever disguise.

That’s why I’m always cleverly disguised, see, as That mild mannered English bulldog tethered inside this three wheeled getaway vehicle here, equally cleverly disguised– As a Pet STROLLER!

I always wanna say stuff like That, but I restrain myself. Why? Self-control. Because sarcasm is bad, kids. Bad.

Art Linkletter was the popular television host of a popular TV show in the popular 50’s and 60’s called Kids Say The Darndest Things.

I ought to be the bulldog host of a show called People Say The Darndest Things– About Bulldogs. Or You Don’t Know Bull!– About Dogs.  Or Are You Smarter Than ThatOne | English Bulldog? (Any TV movers and shakers out there? *Call me.*)

It’s exhausting. Fur Her! It takes a lot of psychic, physical and emotional energy to repel all that weighty not-goodwill that’s really at the heart of  most of these inquiries.

And more than a few of you are not even especially clever, either. We hear the same questions and comments over and over and over, time and time again. Here are just a few examples:

❝How much did you pay fur him?❞ ➠➠➠➠➠ How much is that gorilla in the window?

❝Does he have a lot of health problems?❞ ➠➠➠➠➠ Only if you consider ‘good’ a health problem.

He has a face only a mother could love❞ ➠➠➠➠➠ Sure you right. And I do!

❝He’s so ugly, he’s cute!❞ ➠➠➠➠➠ Thank you?

❝How’d you get him so buffed?❞ ➠➠➠➠➠ I owe my good looks to my mother and father. And precedents!

❝How do you get him so white?❞ ➠➠➠➠➠ ♫♫What’s genes got to do– Got to do with it? And perhaps an occasional bath?

❝Does he snore?❞ ➠➠➠➠➠Only when I’m sleeping.

❝Do you always have to lift him in and out of  your SUV?❞ ➠➠➠➠➠ I believe strongly in ‘No Dog left behind.’

❝Can he walk?❞ ➠➠➠➠➠ Yes, but the Thatmobile is so much more portable than a Mercedes.

❝Do you  surf/skateboard/do a stupid pet trick?❞➠➠➠➠➠ No. No.  And a little bit more–  NO! But if you hum a few bars…

Again. Restraint. I can’t actually say these things. I just think them. And write them in my blog. BOL!

❝Is he friendly?❞ This is the question that gets me every time People ask Her That. I’m a bulldog and even I don’t quite understand.

Do People as a general practice, routinely bring along unsociable, unfriendly, snarling, straining-at-the-leash, aggressive, biting, angry, drooling, snapping Real Cujo’s of ________*(insert your town’s name here)* to mix it up with the public to, say, Target or the public library or Barnes and Noble?

You wouldn’t bring your unruly child out in public on a bad day. Why do you think She or anybully else fur that matter, would bring an untrained, undisciplined, unpredictable, unrestrained, let alone unhealthy wild animal out in public? Does that even make sense?!! I’m a bulldog not a chimpanzee!

Ka-Choing... Yoing Oing Oing Oing!

It makes me wonder if any of the People who ask Her these rude and thoughtless (not to mention Ri-lick-cules) questions have ever been set upon on their way into the library or on the street by an “unfriendly” dog on a leash? Tethered to the inside of a blue buggy? With an AKC/CGC * patch in full display on the front?

So People, when you’re tempted to try to make idle conversation or innocuous small talk and you have neither the skills, the temperament, the knowledge about bulldogs (or any other breed of dog); you’re not “a dog Person,” or possess the social grace sufficient to speak intelligently on this or any other subject, here’s my advice to you:

Just say “Oh!” Followed by

“He’s cute. May I pet him?”

Then be on your way. And check the ill will energy, negative questions and derogatory comments at your door!

RES-TRAINT!
Find out what That means to me
RES-TRAINT!
Common Courtesy! Ow!

k tx!

Goodwill Energies I direct
Toward each and every one of you
Each and every day.
 

❝And there came to be evening and there came to be morning…❞


That’s life, today!

btw! BOL!

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And Now Jessie J!

In Music, Popular Music, Songs On Saturday, Thats' Life on April 23, 2011 at 8:00 AM

Hellooooo… Everybully!

And to Songs on Saturday!

Think I wanna move to London!

Lily Allen

And now, Jessie J!

Jessie J’s been all over the airwaves lately, performing her hit Price Tag on SNL and then last week on Ellen.

She’s young. She’s beautiful. She’s British! And she’s got somethin’ to say! Hey, Hey look it’s Jessie J!

I must confess, I never heard of Jessie J before her SNL appearance. Her spirited performance made me sit up and pay attention and do something I rarely do these days– Download the CD Who You Are on iTunes.

Already a prolific songwriter and accomplished professional performer back in her native UK, Jessie  J, (born Jessica Cornish, March 27, 1988) got her first taste of success when she co-wrote a tune that managed to chart #2 in the US for, of all People, Miley Cyrus, a tune called Party In The USA. That definitely explains why I never heard of Jessie J until now.

Price Tag works fur me on one very significant level. I agree with her expressions about the thin social content and crass materialism that predominate in today’s “music.”

We need to take it back in time,
When music made us all UNITE!
And it wasn’t low blows and video Hoes,
Am I the only one gettin… tired?

No, Jessie. No, you’re not. It’s validating and a comfort to know there may be others who are equally as bored, disinterested and indifferent regarding the ever recycled subjects of who’s got bling, who’s drivin’, drinkin’,  doin’ who, wearin’ what, or kickin’ to the curb whom as I am.

I’d like to believe the tune’s success is, in part, because of this comment on what’s passing in pop and hip hop circles as heady social commentary and not just because it’s an infectious, fun and catchy pop tune full of little asides both lyrically and instrumentally that direct the listener to certain ones she may have gotten tired of or is paying homage to? Maybe?

Everybody look to their left (yeah)
Everybody look to their right (ha)

Did anybully else besides me hear a faint, distant allusion to Irreplaceable by Beyonce? Instrumentally, the bright, effervescent, bubble gum pop liveliness of the tune reminds me of the Black Eyed PeasWhere Is The Love? Listen to them side by side. See what I mean.

The wonderful overlapping harmonies of the background vocals and the choice to end the tune as she does sounds suspiciously like Alicia Keys’ No One. All that’s missing here are John Mayer, an acoustic guitar and some violins!

Of course the rap contribution of B o B , while great as rap interludes go, sounds a lot like most any rap interlude interjected into just about any pop tune these days but I did get a bit of the Jay Z noise from New York or maybe some T.I. from Justin Timberlake‘s My Love.

Is Jessie J tired of JT? At least he hasn’t over exposed himself or put out a whole lotta crap like Usher. But if she is indeed subliminally referencing all the above, then I wholeheartedly agree 100 percent! At any rate, no harm can come of a little conjecture, right?

Maybe songs about “the rocks that I got” were fresh and perhaps even interesting the first 1000 times they cycled through the airwaves and on TV but now they’ve pretty much reached a saturation point. Fur me, they were always silly, repetitive and just plain boring. So what? Who cares?

What’s exciting with this young new artist is the chance to get in on the ground floor of a burgeoning career and participate in its trajectory. With a pop genre vocal style similar to P!nk, Ms J’s voice is a pleasure to listen to, particularly when she actually uses it to interpret a lyric rather than auto tune it up fur the dance floor.

You may appreciate why some have compared her vocal style with Gwen Stefani (Nobody’s Perfect, Abracadabra) and Beyonce (Big White Room, Casualty of Love). Ms J explains why her freshman release, Who You Are, may lack the editorial heft, life experience and strength of material of her more formidable peers namely Adele and Amy Winehouse:

“I feel like my album is an example of what exists in the world of music right now. It’s like my album is an iPod… it’s like when you go clubbing these days, you don’t have a pop room and a separate R&B room, they’re all together. People just appreciate great music…”

Well all righty then. At any rate, this effort is a joyful, lighthearted, cotton candied collection of mostly pop and dance tunes that appear geared to showcase Ms J’s considerable vocal dexterity.

If you’re looking for lush production values you will be disappointed. At least for now. No doubt, lots of big names are already now crouching at her door fur a chance to be a featured “artist” or produce her next offering. I see an overblown production on the horizon. Still, I’m looking forward to Miss J’s sophomore release.

Price Tag. It’s fun. It’s a pop tune. It’s a fun pop tune! So just sit back and enjoy! And dance!

This has been ThatOne fur Songs On Saturday. See you next week. Until then…

Goodwill Energies I project
Upon each and every one of you
Each and every day!

Everybody look to their left (yeah)
Everybody look to their right (ha)
Can you feel that (yeah)
We’re paying with love tonight

It’s not about the money, money, money
We don’t need your money, money, money
We just wanna make the world dance,
Forget about the Price Tag

Ain’t about the (uh) Cha-Ching Cha-Ching.
Aint about the (yeah) Ba-Bling Ba-Bling
Wanna make the world dance,
Forget about the Price Tag.

“And there came to be evening and there came to be morning…”

That’s life today!

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